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26that are at once both transgressive in their movement or ex-citation and regulatory in theirsummoning or legal citation that is in question” (286).In approaching the materiality of the archive and trauma, I argue that the missedencounter arises from the return to/of the material (or corporeal) in a process of what I callcrypto-temporal compulsion, or the compulsion to exhumate, to double and re-double, tosupplement, and to enjoy. While the Derridean archive originates in the very model of “theorigin” of national subjectivity, in commencement and commandment, the figure of the double(shadow) is brought to the scene of writing through the (ab)use of tropics, mainly prosopopeiaand chiasmus. On this account, the crypto-temporal and psycho-poetic compulsion stands asequivalent to the Freudian compulsion to repeat or the Lacanian persistence of the Thing. Now,after my exploration of the economy of the missed encounter (between the archivist and thearchive, the sender and the receiver, the legatee and the inheritor, the corporeal and the abstract,the double and the shadow), it will becomes clear through the detour of deconstruction that theimpossible encounter with the traumatic Real can only be supplemented. Such supplementation,as we shall see in the first and the second chapters of the thesis, functions as the Symbolicdesire/fantasy to domesticate the Thing, the objet a, the residue beyond symbolization. However,as I shall demonstrate in these two chapters, supplementation ends up extending the work of themissed encounter. Following the detour of deconstruction, the residue acquires a new dimension.It becomes the pharmakon, that paradoxical concept that mimics the work of jouissance.I intend to explore—in the second chapter of my dissertation titled, “Encounters andMissed Encounters: The Double, the Post Effects/Affects, and the Loss of Origins”—the ways inwhich Moby-Dick, a narrative full of doubles, shadows, and duplicates, is invested in the