ABSTRACT
The question of understanding hinges on an unannounced though nonetheless ineliminable doubling within giving (a doubling beyond simplicity and therefore other than a simple addition). The move away from simplicity means that the difficult element here-a difficulty based on complexity-is that part of this doubling has to be thought as work and thus as an original reworking; one in the end signalling the effective presence of the anoriginal. The work involved can be provisionally identified as that which is marked out by the name Nachträglichkeit. (The question of Nachträglichkeit must at this stage still remain a question. Its provisional designation of the interplay of repetition and identity articulated within the complex temporal relationship of the retroactive and the making present-presencing-will itself come to be opened up, an opening which-as with what is named within it-is only explicable in terms of work.) Moreover one of the inevitable consequences of the anoriginal will be the centrality of work.
