The double projected onto another reveals the projector’s hidden fear of death.

Evidence

James Baldwin, speaking about the double projected onto him as a Black man in the United States, observed that it had everything to do with the person doing the projecting. What was a white man seeing when he saw Baldwin? “It wasn’t me,” he said, “it was something he didn’t want to see. And you know what that was? It was ultimately, yes, his own death. Or call it trouble. Trouble is an excellent metaphor for death.” — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 1057

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the doubling device Klein has been building across the book — the projected double as a mirror of the projector, not the projected. Also echoes the reader’s tracking question of whether the doubling device holds analytically.
• DEEPTHINKING: Baldwin’s framing — the double is always about the projector’s own death — is the precise mechanism underwriting Klein’s entire methodology, stated with unusual compression and authority.