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.
CITATION STYLE
Buse, P., & Stott, A. (1999). Introduction: A Future for Haunting. In Ghosts (pp. 1–20). Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230374812_1
Mendeley helps you to discover research relevant for your work.