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Ghosts
deconstruction, psychoanalysis, history
Abstract
Did you know that the father of psychoanalysis believed in ghosts, or that Frederick Engels attended seances? Ghosts: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, History is the first collection of theoretical essays to evaluate these facts and consider the importance of the metaphor of haunting as it has appeared in literature, culture, and philosophy. Haunting is considered as both a literal and figurative term that encapsulates social anxieties and concerns. The collection includes discussions of nineteenth-century spiritualism, gothic and postcolonial ghost stories, and popular film, with essays on important theoretical writers including Freud, Derrida, Adorno, and Walter Benjamin.
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a future for haunting
pp.1-20
https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230374812_1on the ghostly origins of psychoanalysis
pp.50-71
https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230374812_3Walter Benjamin and the poetics of urban modernism
pp.72-91
https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230374812_4history and the transcendental in Derrida and Adorno
pp.92-124
https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230374812_5spectres of Marx, Derrida and gothic fiction
pp.127-143
https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230374812_6the mysteries and domesticities of udolpho
pp.144-162
https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230374812_7spiritualism, technology and the "direct voice"
pp.203-225
https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230374812_10the economy of the supernatural
pp.226-243
https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230374812_11Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 1999
Pages: 268
ISBN (hardback): 978-0-333-71144-6
ISBN (digital): 978-0-230-37481-2
Full citation:
Buse Peter, Stott Andrew (1999) Ghosts: deconstruction, psychoanalysis, history. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.