The Uncanny and the Double: Henry James’s “The Jolly Corner”
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The Uncanny and the Double: Henry James’s “The Jolly Corner” As for the double in “The Jolly Corner,” critics have repeatedly asked what it signifies. Hardy analyzes the double by focusing on its social implication while Claggett analyzes the double purely in psychological terms. The present paper examines the story in social terms as well as psychological ones by applying the Freudian term the “uncanny” to the double. At the mirror stage, the protagonist constructs an idealized self as the perfect American, an ego that is in complete agreement with the external reality. At the same time, however, he accepts the gap between the idealized image and himself. He thus successfully passes through the mirror stage by accepting both the unified image and the alienating one. At a later stage, when he must enter into the symbolic, however, he refuses to recognize himself in his uncanny double. The castrated image of his double reveals an inevitable cost demanded of him by contemporary American society. Further, by conflating an idealized American self and its uncanny double, “The Jolly Corner” implies that the symbolic order of American society has a gap in it.
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