ABSTRACT
The metonymic mode creates a language whose action is repetition; the language of the excessive mode issues in stagnating action; the Muselmann mode creates a language marked by evacuation, while the language typical of the metaphorical mode results in deferred action. The metaphoric and metonymic modes are modes of objectal memory in the sense that they maintain memory as a present object that allows processing or repetition. The excessive and the Muselmann modes, by contrast, dwell in the domain of negative memory, and thus constitute two types of object negation: one by means of a recurrent act of evacuation, and the other through a recurrent act of stagnation. On the same lines, one can consider the excessive and the Muselmann modes of memory as expressions of a parasitic interaction, in which both the remembering subject and the traumatic object are annihilated.
