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32later on, the post activity, suspended between arrival and non-arrival, is subject to the work ofresiduum or the revenant.After investigating the aporetic economy that regulates the Symbolic exchange betweenAmerica and Orient, the excess it created and yearns, but ultimately fails to contain, I shalldemonstrate how the shuttling between the material and the immaterial, between the physicalbody and the Real of the body is reflective of the anxiety of postmodernism (an anxiety that isstaged through the discrepancy between the Real and the corporeal). The body is the favorite siteof the parasitical intrusion of the remnant, an intrusion that moves the missed encounter closer tothe obscene and the uncanny. Freud tells us that the unheimlich is not the opposite of theHeimlich. In fact, it is this reference to homeliness that gives the uncanny its particular nature. 7Because of this unhomeliness-in-homeliness, or obscenity-in-jouissance, the subject experiencesa mixture of pleasure and pain. In the following passage Žižek elucidate this complexity:Do we not encounter here again the Freudian/Lacanian paradox of jouissance ‘beyond thepleasure principle’, as pleasure-in-pain - of das Ding which can be experienced only in anegative way - whose contours can be discerned only negatively, as the contours of aninvisible void? Similarly, is not the (moral) Law itself a sublime Thing, in so far as it alsoelicits the painful sentiment of humiliation, of self-debasement, mixed with a profoundsatisfaction that the subject has done his duty? (The Ticklish Subject 40)The complexity of jouissance, which will be the focus of the last section of the third chapter, liesin its mediation between pain and pleasure, a mediation that is operated by a shuttling betweenthe Real and the Symbolic. Does the idea of an impossible jouissance refer to a possiblejouissance? In other words, we have to accept the fact that it is impossible to enjoyand confirmthe Lacanian argument that the entry into the Symbolic is equated with a loss of beingor we