
This chapter builds on and expands the earlier discussion of haunted nature of meaning, as physical reality is translated into symbolic meaning, focusing on higher-level processes of linguistic communication and subjective experience, such as the metaphoric and metonymic modalities of language, intersubjective and intergenerational transmission of affective patterns. I draw on the theoretic discussions including the notion of hauntology advanced by Jacques Derrida, structures of feeling outlined by Raymond Williams, phantoms and cryptonymy by Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok, along with Freudian, Object Relational, and Lacanian psychoanalytic models of ego formation to drive home the fundamental role played by the negativity (the lack of the Thing) which, as discussed in the last chapter, is introduced into the very structure of consciousness from the earliest stages of production of meaning. This chapter also discusses the pantemporality of subjective experience and the relationship of this fact to the hauntological nature of meaning, and the phenomenon of death drive postulated by Freud. The chapter ends with a discussion of political subjectivity and the implications of hauntological theory of experience for social and generational transmission of patterns of political affect, as well as a brief examination of the relevance of this conceptualization for emerging modalities of subjectivity, including networked human subjectivity or the possibility of artificial subjectivity.
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