Podwojone ciała i trauma. Figura sobowtóra w gatunku fantastyki naukowej
Body Doubles and Trauma: The Figure of the Doppelgänger in the Science Fiction Genr

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the function of the figure of the double in the context of trauma in the science fiction genre, based on the example of the film Solaris (2002) by Steven Soderbergh and the series Katla (2021) by Baltasar Kormákur. Their creators strongly oppose the literary Gothic tradition as established by Freud’s canonical essay “The Uncanny” and evoked by René Girard in the concept of the “monstrous double.” Existential issues and reflection on the corporeal aspect of experiencing otherness place the discussed films in the paradigm of ecocriticism. The author emphasizes that, unlike many contemporary science-fiction works, they do not focus on the (doubled) body – technology relationship, but on the (doubled) body – nature relationship. Here, nature interacts directly with humans, responding – through the materialized bodies of doppelgängers – to their subconscious desires related to the trauma they have experienced. Concepts from the field of Freudian psychoanalysis inherent in trauma theory allow us to bring out the constructive aspect of confrontation with a doubled embodied Other

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