Binding: Paperback
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. This book demonstrates how past oppressions return demanding acknowledgement and reparation and explores how recognition and forgiveness can arise from this. Rooted in psychoanalysis postcolonial and psychosocial studies Frosh addresses the question of what passes through and between human subjects and how these things structure social and psychopolitical life.
Title: Hauntings: Psychoanalysis And Ghostly Transmissions
Author(s): Frosh Stephen
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Barcode: 9781137031273
Pages: 182 Pages, Viii, 182 P.
Publication Date: 1/11/2013
Series: Studies in the Psychosocial
Category: The Self, Ego, Identity, Personality