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256geological temporality rather than a strictly historical one. The perturbing reality of the disfiguredbody is linked to the crack that lies in corporeality. This is why we witness a pursuing ofcorporeality in both Moby-Dick and The Scarlet Letter. However, as Sharon Cameron argues inThe Corporeal Self: Allegories of the Body in Melville and Hawthorne, “[i]f the central fiction ofMoby-Dick is that the dismemberments of which Melville writes are literal and of monster bodies,the central fiction of Hawthorne’s tales is that the dismemberments are allegorical and are ofhuman bodies” (80).As I argued previously, the figurative exhumation of the residues of the dead fathers, themissed encounter with the Real i.e., with the inarticulate past of Puritan America or the archive,made it possible for Hawthorne to carry on the legacy of the Father. In The Lacanian Subject:Between Language and Jouissance, Bruce Fink understands the trauma of the Real as the residuethat is not overwritten by the Symbolic:One of the faces of the real that we deal with in psychoanalysis is trauma. If we think ofthe real as everything that has yet to be symbolized, language no doubt never completelytransforms the real, never drains all of the real into the symbolic order; a residuum isalways left. In analysis, we are not interested in just any old residuum, but in that residualexperience that has become a stumbling block to the patient. (26)In other words, the obsession of Puritan America with the spectacle of the Real makesdisciplining any deviant subject possiblethat is, to effectively produce, through the investmentof the missed encounter in the microphysics of power, obedient bodies that cannot trouble theorder. In fact it is an obsession with sin as workings of the devil, the material sign of the hand ofthe devil at work in the world. To put this another way, it is an obsession with sinful bodies. As in