The Abrahamic’s spectral shape appears unreadable in survivors’ camp texts.

Evidence

Freud thus directs our reading of the Abrahamic toward a shape of forgetting as it is occurring, a movement of vanishing where what “turns Turk” also continues to “turn ghost.” When it appears or reappears in the texts of survivors of Nazi extermination camps-though the term “appearance” has already proven inadequate-it remains as unreadable as Kafka’s Abrahams, 66 open only to the repeated and uninterpreted inscription of its being forgotten, the movement of a disappearance that is itself beginning to vanish. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 668

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘spectral shape of the Abrahamic’ as a vanishing movement that resists inscription, itself an interpretative category of the book.