I've been intrigued, lately, on the figure of the ghost/spectre/phantom ... a first subtle (early) attempt at a mapping of the figure(s) of hauntology...
a) The Phantom as Liar
-The phantom is a ghost of concealment which lies, terrifies, and misguides to keep hidden its secrets. Its exorcism is in superegoic challenge, in symbolization, in deciphering and interpreting (the shameful, the hidden, the prohibited) in order to dispel the apparition's hold on traumatic knots of occlusion.
b) The Revenant of Temporality
- The revenants/spooks of past haunt the present in a non-presence which, regardless, leaves fragments and mementos in the material, affective, and representational realms which interrupt presence with absence rupturing the present and folding time to leave the passed-by and futural more suffocating and pivotal than the now. This figure is a more experiential re-figuration of the effects of thrown facticity and projection on our concerned engagement with existence.
c) The Fantasm as Trace of the Plane of Consistency
- The enigma of material self-incoherence harkening the originary lack which birthed the text. The fantasm/apparition is the non-present presence always haunting the symbolic with secrets of doxy and repression and the threat of (Kristevan) semiotization. This ghost is exorcized (improperly) by ontology.
d) Spectrality as Masking
- This figure suggests a mode of being and sociality in which identity becomes dispersed, pluralized, elided, proliferated, and inconsistent (in pseudonymy, heteronymy, and anonymity). Herein, the Real and corporeal fade into echoes, eclipsing social prohibitions, immobility and identification.
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