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130lost by the subject who is, following the loss, capable of determining his encounter with his lossas a repetition.In what follows, I will formulate a psychoanalytic and deconstructive study of the poeticsof the double and examine its theoretical implications for the missed encounter. My argument isthat unassimilated opposites and contradictions, or missed encounters, produce dangerous areasof supplementation, slippages, doubles, impasses, and missed origins. The double, strange as it is,gives the reader a sense of the uncanny and invokes him to the uncanny scene of writing. Relyingon the figure of prosopopeia to figure the double, Melville’s narrative conjures up the lost objectby figuring it as the double, shadow, or phantom. Here, I wish to take up Rank’s pioneering studyof the figure of the double, Jung’s interesting theory of the archetype of the shadow, Freud’stheory of the uncanny, Lacan’s theory of the mirror, 44 and Derrida’s theory of the specter asexplanatory of the dialectics of the missed encounter and the Thing that hauntsthe Thing that iscast upon the split subject. This Thing, Kristeva tells us, is complicated by the melancholicidentifications (of fear and desire). These identifications find identity and are identified by thefigure of the double.The double, however, has always been regarded by critics as a reflection of madness,narcissism, or delusion. The marginalization of the double by literary, philosophical, and culturalstudies sheds light on the power of this figure to transgress and to destabilize orders. ThroughRank’s study of the double, Freud’s illuminating concept of the uncanny, and Jung’s theory ofarchetypes and their impact upon modern psychoanalysis, literary theory and critical theory, it ispossible to talk about the figure of the double in terms of subversion and reversal.