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6A constellation of concepts and tropessuch as signifier, anasemia,supplement/différance and crypt, archive, shadow, melancholia, narcissismwill come togetherin the protean space of the missed encounter. The incessant sliding-away (glissement) andshuttling, to use Lacanian and Derridean phraseology, will be at the core of my dissertation: theyentail no slow movement and no collision between the two sets of concepts but a swift,significant conceptual rearrangement around a new displaced space, which is but the scheme ofthe missed encounter. Adopting Derrida’s concept of shuttling (navette) and Lacan’s notion ofglissement, this dissertation will be performing a shuttling between nineteenth-century Americanliterature, namely Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and Melville’s Moby-Dick, and varioustheories ranging from psychoanalysis, to hermeneutics, to deconstruction, to postcolonialism, topostmodernism. In Glas, Derrida defines shuttling as follows:The wordla navetteis absolutely necessary. It will have had to be there. … Itconcerns a small metal vessel in the form of a boat (navis, navetta). They keep incense init. And then the weaver’s navette [shuttle]. He makes it run [courir]. Coming-and-goingwoven in a chain. The weave is in the navette. You see all that one could have done withthat (ça). Isn’t elaboration a weaver’s movement? (208b)Weaving different theories together, one of the arguments of this dissertation consists precisely inuncovering the residues left and recuperated by the act of weaving, in bringing into the open theanxieties of re-turn. In shuttling, which becomes a trope of writing and reading, we always end updiscovering a long-left residue and, unintentionally, leaving another. This is the danger of thismethod that privileges juxtaposition. While it attempts to recover, or rather to uncover, theresidues residing in the narrative, shuttling, as a trope of reading and writing, accidentally leaves