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221faith that is no longer there” (The Political Unconscious 252); as such, it parallels the characters’yearning for psychological unity. As Melville’s characters’ responses to the figure of thedouble are inscribed in the malleable space of the missed encounter, each reacts differently to theeffects/affects of this figure. The impossible return to the primal sceneto the wombbecomesso unbelievably unbearable that a phantasized double or a crypt is created to lodge the lost objectof desire. In fact, the loss of origins and objects of desire threatens to turn cryptic and phantasmicobjects into duplicate representations.Originating from substantial doubles and imaginary phantasms, the obligation of theencounter, both as a possible and a missed encounter, makes possible the circulation of libidinaldrives, and attempts to look back in desire and to recover the dusty residues of history. Ghostly asthey are, these dusty residues are, however, invested in the play of signs, in the supplementarityof language. Enfolding and enfolded by necromancy or necrophilia, the double, a manifestationof both a missed and a successful encounter, tries to situate itself outside and its contexts.However, the various interruptions, suspensions, aporias, mises en abyme, supplements, andexchanges haunt these intermittent encounters with phantomatic regressions. Lodged between theeconomics of the impossible encounter and the necromantic regression to anoriginary experience, the double remains in an ambivalent position and must redouble allinterrupting experiences to claim his role in the Symbolic.Demonstrating a regressive and identificatory libidinal desire for the lost maternal objectof desire and expressing a transcendental desire for unity with the lost Father, the doubleexpresses itself as a violence done to the human desire for unity and exposes the paradox of theOedipus complex. As a symptom of a prohibited libidinal attachment to the mother, as a