Rampo's repetitions: the doppelganger in Edogawa Rampo and Tsukamoto Shin'ya
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Abstract
Psychoanalytical discourse has been instrumental in forming the figure of the doppelganger as a coherent concept and genre of film and fiction, typically linking it with notions of ‘the uncanny’ and ‘repetition compulsion’. In this paper, I explore the functions of the figure of the doppelganger in a text that repeats across (and in effect foregrounds the relations between) two separate historical moments: Edogawa Rampo's short story ‘The twins’ and Tsukamoto Shin'ya's subsequent adaptation of this story titled Gemini (Edogawa 1969 Edogawa, Rampo. 1969. “‘Sōseiji: aru shikeishū ga kyōkaishi ni uchiaketa hanashi’ (The twins: a death row convict's confession to a priest)”. In Edogawa Rampo zenshū 1: yaneura no sampōsha (The complete works of Edogawa Rampo: the stalker in the attic), Kōdansha. [Google Scholar]; Tsukamoto 1999 Tsukamoto, Shin'ya. 1999. Sōseiji – GEMINI, Japan: Kaijyu Theater. [Google Scholar]). In these texts, the doppelganger appears in relation to other motifs such as feigned amnesia and concealment of memory, the deployment of confessional narrative strategies, as well as the problem of adaptation, in effect addressing the stakes of questions of repetition. Moreover, when situated against the constellation of discourses (e.g. psychoanalysis, urbanization, visuality) that are constitutive of its formation as a concept and genre, the doppelganger also serves as a productive point of departure from which to articulate the stakes of the critical practices through which objects of investigation are produced.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".