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47I would be remiss not to mention, though, that the question of the grave is linked to theoffice or business of anasemia. When I first started studying the work of anasemia, I foundmyself attracted to debris and traces of and in the archive and the grave. I make no claim tocovering all the theoretical turns of anasemia, much less to assessing its validity. What isimportant about anasemia is that it opens up a new window for hermeneutics and becomes itself atrope of reading. To better understand the work of anasemia, let us quote at length from The Shelland the Kernel in which Nicolas Abraham defines anasemia as the “scandalous anti-semantics”(105) of psychoanalysis. He points out:the allusion to the nonreflexive and the unnamed in fact induces this strange semanticphenomenon. Thus the language of psychoanalysis no longer follows the twists and turns(topoi) of customary speech and writing. Pleasure, ID, Ego, Economic, Dynamic, are notmetaphors, metonymies, synecdoches, catachreses; they are, by dint of discourse,products of de-signification and constitute new figures, absent from rhetorical treatises.These figures of anti-semantics, inasmuch as they signify no more than the action ofmoving up toward the source of their customary meaning, require a denominationproperly indicative of their status and whichfor want of something betterI shallpropose to designate by the neologism anasemia. (85; original italics)The anasemic economy is thus characterized by the movement back (ana-) to earlier sources ofsignification (semia). Inspired by the Lacanian conception of desire as metonymy and lack,anasemia, which is developed by post-Freudian psychoanalysis, stages the abysmal nature ofsignification and deconstructs the old conception of semantics. Anasemia, however, refers to thetemporality of the sign and signification. I’m interested in tracing back repressed signifiers andprimal scenes through an anasemic ana-lysis in which psychoanalysis and deconstructionintersect and interact. In his foreword to Abraham and Torok’s The Wolf Man’s Magic Word,