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Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions

By Stephen Frosh

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2013
ISBN
1137031247, 9781137031242
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
892 kB (913710 bytes)
Series
Studies in the Psychosocial
Pages
192\191
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-08-16 20:38:05

Description

Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions shows how the present is troubled by the past and by the future, using the idea of haunting to explore psychoanalytically how identities, beliefs, intimacies and hatreds are transmitted across generations and between people. It deals with the secrets that we inherit, the 'pull' of the past, and the way emotions, thoughts and impulses enter into us from others as a kind of immaterial yet real communication. It demonstrates how past oppressions return, demanding acknowledgement and reparation, and it explores how recognition and forgiveness can arise from this. Rooted in psychoanalysis, postcolonial and psychosocial studies, this book addresses the question of what passes through and between human subjects and how these things structure psychosocial and psychopolitical life.

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