Materializing the phantasm of the double destroys its power

Evidence

The same is true of the (primal) scene of seduction: it only functions when it is phantasmed, reremembered, never real. It belonged to our era to wish to exorcise this phantasm like the others, that is to say to want to realize, materialize it in flesh and bone and, in a completely contrary way, to change the game of the double from a subtle exchange of death with the Other into the eternity of the Same. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 322

Categorization

• XREF: The move from phantasm to materialization is precisely the precession of simulacra: realization of the model that was never meant to be real. — connects to: Perfect resemblance destroys the imaginary because exact doubling erases the image itself — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 352; A materialized double signals death while an immaterial double sustains the subject — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 321; The doppelganger literary tradition treats the double as internal projection requiring self-destruction — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror…, 82 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• The doppelganger literary tradition treats the double as internal projection requiring self-destruction #expands (0.90) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 82
• Surgical body transformation can produce a hated abandoned self that returns as a double #exemplifies (0.75) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 578
• Possessing the loved one wholly destroys the transcendence that made him lovable #expands (0.72) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1875
• Mechanical reproduction of beauty destroys the unconscious idolatry that made beauty vital #complicates (0.70)