Watching a confused-with-me person flip fascist grounds the uncanny in lived experience

Evidence

This is a head-spinning political transformation by any measure. But witnessing this about-face in someone whose face is perennially confused with my own sends a particular kind of chill; once again Freud’s description of the uncanny comes to mind: “that species of the frightening that goes back to what was once well known and had long been familiar.” — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 435

Categorization

• XREF: The doubling device — Klein’s political insight arising from being confused with Wolf — is the central structural move of the whole book; this passage shows her explicitly naming the Freudian uncanny as the mechanism that makes the device work.