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310the hypothesis of a death instinct, the task of which is to lead organic life back into the inanimate state;on the other hand, we supposed that Eros ... aims at complicating life and at the same time, of course, atpreserving it (380-1).40 The Cartesian transparent, self-reflexive subject has lost currency in Hawthorne’s world in whichsubjectivity correlates with power. It is no longer self-reflexive and independent. The disseminationand regulation of power function through the deregulation of the subjectthe supposedly transparentand self-reliant subject.41 Here Derrida is alluding specifically to the racial Other, to Israel. In my dissertation, I am talkingabout an indefinite Other. It suffices to say that any archivization involves, as a transposition of theOther’s narrative, a violent encounter.42 Prosopopeia is derived from the Greek prosõpon (a face or a mask). It is the trope of the mask orveil that allows for the reanimation of the dead by giving them a voice and a face. The mask is alsolinked to transference. Bakhtin points out that “the mask is related to transition, metamorphoses, theviolation of natural boundaries, to mockery and familiar nicknames. It contains the playful image oflife; it is based on a peculiar interrelation of reality and image, characteristic of the most ancientrituals and spectacles” (40).43 In his early writings, Freud studied the existence of real trauma in the experience of the child.Then, he realized the limitations of this approach and, as a result, set up a theory of fantasy. In other