Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions

by Stephen Frosh

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137031271
• ISBN13: 9781137031273
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"