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120materializes a certain symbolic debt persisting beyond physical expiration. It is commonplace tostate that symbolization as such equates to symbolic murder: when we speak about a thing, wesuspend, place in parentheses, its reality” (23). The assassination of the Fatherthe repressedsymbolic eventreceives its Law and power retroactively through repetition and extendsHawthorne’s narrative to the domain of the Gothic. In other words, what was excluded from thesymbolic returns in the Real in the form of symptomatic traces. This means that any symbolicstructure is organized around a certain void. It is this void that stages the contours of the archive.In other words, the archive consists of the fragments, the debris, the traces shored up against theruin of the subject. The archive is, then, not simply an example of “symbolic structure”; it is butanother name for the Lacanian term, “the Symbolic.” In the archive, memory displaces timedeixis and place deixis. What we have is a coexistence of presence and absence, place and space,memory and forgetfulness, substantiality and abstraction. In fact, what are we talking about in thearchive? Are we talking about the spectrality of the archive or the archive of the specter or thespecter as archive or the archive of the archive? The work of the psychoanalysts NicolasAbraham and Maria Torok is crucial to the study of this transgenerational and relationaltransference of events, especially the peculiar ways in which the buried traumas of the past mighthaunt and affect the lives of the following generations. Read in light of psychoanalysis,Hawthorne’s relationship with the dead is a chiastic relationship: he is haunted by them and yethe still haunts them.Giving substance to abstract thoughts, prosopopeia 42 allows the ghost to make vocal aburied past and to haunt the living. It follows, then, that prosopo0poeia works hand in hand withtrauma and the uncanny. Drawing upon psychoanalytic theories of Freud, Lacan, Abraham and