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30520 My argument is that the symbolic representation of sexuality, impossible as it is, implies the lackof a signifier. This lack signifies that the sexual encounter is an impossible encounter that goesbeyond symbolization and spills over into différance.21 In Lacanese, méconnaissancethe failure to recognizeevokes the child’s knowledge(connaissance) and recognition that the image he sees in the mirror does not in fact correspond(méconnaissance) to his experience.22 In Hawthorne’s narrative, there is a variety of primal scenes. The author’s primal scene can begrasped only indexically, through his obsession with the graves, bones, and ghosts of the fathers.23 Lacan’s understanding of sinthome is the surplus of enjoyment or jouissance that goes beyondhermeneutics and constructs fantasy. In this respect, it is the pure jouissance of the subject beyondanalysis. In other words, it is something topographical that goes beyond consciousness. This is whyone can never know entirely the sinthome. The inability to know it is due to its non-referentiality.The sinthome, however, brings together symptom and fantasy. Such amalgamation complicates thework of the sinthome.24 As defined by Lacan in his The Four Fundamental Concepts, “The objet a is something fromwhich the subject, in order to constitute itself; has separated itself off as organ. This serves as asymbol of the lack, that is to say, of the phallus, not as such, but in so far as it is lacking. It must,