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45absorbing. The outcome of the nar
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47I would be remiss not to mention,
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49the sea from an island after ship
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51marks upon women’s bodies funct
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53Ideology does not reflect the rea
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55What happens if the letter is not
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57The letter always arrives at its
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59woman, since the trauma of Hester
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61very eye that would gloat over it
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63word is not only the condensation
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65always a body in some way. But al
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67the historical violence, the viol
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69event”; for Freud, “the prima
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71impossibility of the encounter wi
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73ins Gegenteil). There is also a t
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75The first work on trauma is Freud
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77possible for disembodied voices a
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79traumatic event that is always al
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81Gothic. The supplementarity of la
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83toward the father. Hawthorne’s
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85the narrative of Pue, which, in t
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87authorial meaning establishes an
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89Derridean logic, one can say that
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91One of the anxieties of the The S
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93“The Custom-House”an archive
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95Examining Hawthorne’s narrative
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97analysis of Hawthorne’s life an
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99identification 32 with Surveyor P
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101fathers’ ghosts are rather wha
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103The “phantom”, however, is a
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105to haunting. According to him,
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107Hawthorne has internalized his d
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109us, it is for the purpose of (do
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111the imperative to repetition, th
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113death drive is above all anarchi
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115archive … can only illuminate,
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117letterallows him to be the subje
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119future and possibility. Žižek
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121Torok, and Kristeva, I shall dem
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123voice of the dead, we can no lon
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125binary structure of symbolic thi
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CHAPTER 2Encounters and Missed Enco
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129Strangely, through the trope of
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131Nineteenth-century American lite
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133Dick inscribes through the prota
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135fear of death and creates strong
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137literature, to name a few discip
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139duality is based on the percepti
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141It is worth noting that for Freu
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143Structured around repetition, th
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145are perpetually suspended. Ishma
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147with glaring eyes Ahab would bur
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149Is the theory of the double a th
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151impossible encounter. Exposing t
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153most loving and affectionate man
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155finds “a small scattered congr
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157definition is second, symbolic,
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159light of transcendentalist ideal
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161not only as an addition to itsel
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163whether the line should be read
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165examples, yet intimated the part
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167conditional, between choosing an
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169losses through the poetic (ab)us
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171Reading and writing are uncanny
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173for the person who first raises
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175who would pass on the story. Dur
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177coffin is Ishmael’s lifebuoy.
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179underpin the origins of traumain
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181prosopopeia, moves the economy o
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183elusive something in the innermo
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185functions as protection against
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187events. Then, the double is a pr
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189The invocation of this common
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191becomes my necessary, tyrannical
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193eventually “cannot endure Eros
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195the narrativethe return of the R
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197This invitation is open, sudden,
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199Reading and writing, the product
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201question of the father is linked
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203My critical study thus far has b
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205The signified concept is never p
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207inscrutability). We learn from t
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209Religion serves as a source of c
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211signs that has many referents, m
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213Derrida, referring to the obscur
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215the dialectics of poison and rem
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217sign is the supplement that supp
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219psychoanalytic regressions to th
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221faith that is no longer there”
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223Following these (con)figurations
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225As for the emperor himself, he s
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227“as a Western style for domina
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229psychoanalytic (linguistic) mode
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231the impossible pre-linguistic Re
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233phantasmic (mis)representation o
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235Let us Raise the Threshold of th
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237This subjection or rather elimin
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239project of Orientalism, which is
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241following paragraphs how the gap
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243in truth, this gentleman is a lu
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245Following Foucault’s archaeolo
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247many Orientalisms, not just one.
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249poles is emphasized by the natur
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251that in both Melville and Hawtho
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253evidence for the postmodern obse
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255of subjectivity and the figurati
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257Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter
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259Since it is impossible to have a
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261path [Maurice Merleau-Ponty] ind
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263perspective, the Real represents
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265matrix of the missed encounter,
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267To think of the Other or the Ori
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269raise is the fact that a certain
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271philosophy that could be conside
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273arrives at its destination, as a
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275fantasies. What we are witnessin
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277hieroglyphics, the scarlet lette
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279for fantasy is the mysterious ob
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281September 11 was that this fanta
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283make itself present, or enter in
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285this representation. What is imp
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287generations, the retrospective d
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289What complicates the business of
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ConclusionSomething is Burning in t
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293literature’s and modernity’s
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295We have seen Melville’s and Ha
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297between its aim and its goal? Th
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1 For Lacan, the vel is the space b
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301as the material symbol. In Melvi
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30314 I am borrowing this term from
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30520 My argument is that the symbo
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30728 The meaning of the archive co
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309re-turning home as on studying t
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311words, the sexual aggression has
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313Freud’s theory of sexual insti
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31556 The vexing eruptions of necro
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317this double. According to Plato,
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32171 Anouar Majid’s study is a c
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323“sexual difference is the Real
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325Abraham, Nicolas, and Maria Toro
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327Chicago UP, 1987. Print.Burke, K
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329. Mémoires for Paul de Man. Tra
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331. “The Uncanny” (1919). The
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333. The Seminar of Jacques Lacan,
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335Savoy, Eric. “Embarrassments: