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The article frames the ghost not as present or absent, but as an ethical interruption akin to the Levinasian Other. It contrasts Derrida’s spectrality with Abraham and Torok’s phantom as a deceptive presence tied to transgenerational trauma and unspeakable family secrets, reshaping how ghost stories and literary inquiry can be read.",{"@graph":69,"@context":122},[70,84,105],{"@type":71,"itemListElement":72},"BreadcrumbList",[73,77,79,82],{"item":74,"name":75,"@type":76,"position":8},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":78,"name":9,"@type":76,"position":14},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/",{"item":80,"name":15,"@type":76,"position":81},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/literature/",3,{"item":83,"name":65,"@type":76,"position":19},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/hauntology-spectres-and-phantoms/564743/",{"url":83,"name":65,"@type":85,"image":86,"author":91,"headline":65,"publisher":94,"fileFormat":97,"inLanguage":63,"description":67,"dateModified":98,"datePublished":99,"encodingFormat":97,"isAccessibleForFree":100,"interactionStatistic":101},"DigitalDocument",{"url":87,"@type":88,"width":89,"height":90},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/hauntology-spectres-and-phantoms/564743.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":92,"@type":93},"anakgang17","Person",{"url":74,"name":95,"@type":96},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-10-22","2026-10-12",true,{"@type":102,"interactionType":103,"userInteractionCount":14},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":104},"ViewAction",{"@type":106,"mainEntity":107},"FAQPage",[108,114,118],{"name":109,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":111},"What are the two main sources of hauntology discussed in the text?","Question",{"text":112,"@type":113},"Hauntology draws on Derrida’s concept of hantologie in Spectres de Marx and on psychoanalytic work by Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok, especially their essays gathered in L’Écorce et le noyau.","Answer",{"name":115,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":116},"How does the article define the ghost or ghost-like figure in hauntology?",{"text":117,"@type":113},"The ghost is neither present nor absent, neither dead nor alive, functioning as an ethical injunction that occupies the place of the Levinasian Other.",{"name":119,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":120},"What distinguishes Abraham and Torok’s phantoms from traditional ghost-story expectations?",{"text":121,"@type":113},"The phantom is not a returning spirit that reveals secrets; instead it is a liar whose effects mislead the haunted subject and keep traumatic secrets shrouded in mystery.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":124,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":126,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":128,"site_id":62},564743,1792667531,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":131},{"doc_id":128,"user_id":132,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":14,"category_name":15,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":14,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":34,"language":139,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":140,"faqs":141,"seo_title":142,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":143,"read_time":144},962090883568,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_a8503ba1806abce46bf441b54a3ca4cd","French Studies, Vol. LIX, No. 3, 373–379 doi:10.1093/fs/kni143  \nE´TAT PRE´SENT  \nHAUNTOLOGY, SPECTRES AND PHANTOMS COLIN DAVIS  \nHauntology, as a trend in recent critical and psychoanalytical work, has two distinct, related, and to some extent incompatible sources. The word itself, in its French form hantologie, was coined by Jacques Derrida in his Spectres de Marx (1993), which has rapidly become one of the most controversial and influential works of his later period.1 Marxist and leftleaning readers have been less than enthusiastic about Derrida’s claim that deconstruction was all along a radicalization of Marx’s legacy, their responses ranging, as Michael Sprinker puts it, ‘from skepticism, to ire, to outright contempt’.2 But in literary critical circles, Derrida’s rehabilitation of ghosts as a respectable subject of enquiry has proved to be extraordinarily fertile. Hauntology supplants its near-homonym ontology, replacing the priority of being and presence with the figure of the ghost as that which is neither present nor absent, neither dead nor alive. Attending to the ghost is an ethical injunction insofar as it occupies the place of the Levinasian Other: a wholly irrecuperable intrusion in our world, which is not comprehensible within our available intellectual frameworks, but whose otherness we are responsible for preserving. Hauntology is thus related to, and represents a new aspect of, the ethical turn of deconstruction which has been palpable for at least two decades. It has nothing to do with whether or not one believes in ghosts, as Fredric Jameson explains:  \nSpectrality does not involve the conviction that ghosts exist or that the past (and maybe even the future they offer to prophesy) is still very much alive and at work, within the living present: all it says, if it can be thought to speak, is that the living present is scarcely as self-sufficient as it claims to be; that we would do well not to count on its density and solidity, which might under exceptional circumstances betray us.3  \nThe second, chronologically prior yet less acknowledged, source of hauntology is the work of psychoanalysts Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok, especially in some of the essays collected in L’E´corce et le noyau  \n1  \n2  \nReferences are to Jacques Derrida, Spectres de Marx (Paris, Galile´e, 1993) .  \n‘Introduction’, in Ghostly Demarcations: A Symposium on Jacques Derrida’s ‘Spectres de Marx’, [ed. by](ed. by)  \nMichael Sprinker (London—New York, Verso, 1999), p. 2. For political responses to Derrida’s Spectres de Marx, see the essays in this collection; see also Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak,‘Ghostwriting’,  \nDiacritics, 25 (1995), 65–84, and Ernesto 3 ‘Marx’s Purloined Letter’, in Ghostly  \nLaclau,‘The Time is Out of Joint’, Diacritics, 25 (1995), 86–96. Demarcations, pp. 26–67 (p. 39) .  \n\\# The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for French  \nStudies. All rights reserved. For permissions, please [email: journals.permissions@oupjournals.org](email: journals.permissions@oupjournals.org)  \nDownloaded from [https://academic.oup.com/fs/article/59/3/373/638853 by guest on 21 August 2022](https://academic.oup.com/fs/article/59/3/373/638853 by guest on 21 August 2022)  \n374 COLIN DAVIS  \nand Torok’s work subsequent to the death of Abraham.4 In fact, Derrida played a key role in getting the work of Abraham and Torok known to a wider audience. In 1976, the year after Abraham’s death, their radical re-working of Freud’s Wolfman case study, Le Verbier de l’homme aux loups, appeared in the Flammarion ‘Philosophie en effet’ series of which Derrida was one of the co-directors, and it was preceded by a long and influential essay by Derrida entitled ‘Fors’.5 Derrida’s essay suggests some of the similarities between his thought and that of Abraham and Torok, but he has next to nothing to say about their work on phantoms and the marked differences between their conception and his. 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