SOURCE: “The Sublime Simulacra: Repetition, Reversal, and Re-covery in Lem's Solaris,” in Critique, Vol. XXXVI, No. 3, Spring, 1995, pp. 177–94.
In the following essay, Easterbrook draws upon Sigmund Freud's description of “The Uncanny” and the theoretical statements of Jacques Derrida and Jean Baudrillard to explore aspects of psychic, symbolic, and textual doubling and repetition in Solaris.
