Hauntings: psychoanalysis and ghostly transmission

Frosh, Stephen (2012) Hauntings: psychoanalysis and ghostly transmission. American Imago 69 (2), pp. 241-264. ISSN 0065-860X.

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Abstract

This paper unpacks some of the psychoanalytic associations of haunting to suggest that psychoanalysis engages more fully with haunting than critics allow. It asks questions about what it is that haunts psychoanalysis and also what might be tangible in the vertical and horizontal dimensions of haunting with which psychoanalysis deals. It finds that something passes through psychoanalysis as a kind of smoke, material yet not quite graspable; and that this has some troubling effects.

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Item Type:	Article
School:	Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences
Research Centres and Institutes:	Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics (MAMSIE)
Depositing User:	Stephen Frosh
Date Deposited:	16 Oct 2012 09:35
Last Modified:	02 Aug 2023 16:58
URI:	https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/5094

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