ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on temporal dispossession that meditates upon the uncanniness of temporality disclosed in two different conceptualizations of structure, meaning and the origin: Jacques Derrida's notion of the supplement and Freudian Nachtraglichkeit. It examines the philosophical terms, and the fallacy of the humanist subject's conviction of its own authority, its status as origin and owner of its own universe. The chapter shows how Samuel Beckett's text to be structured according to a deconstructed, 'dispossessed' kind of subjectivity. 'Dispossession', starts from the deconstruction of the concept of 'propert', relating it both to the economy of the proper and to the possessive presumptions of the individual constructed within capitalism. The commonplace of Beckett criticism to which Molloy represents a parting nod to the traditional novel appears moreover to find some justification in the initial concern to situate Moran in his proper time and place.
