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Psychoanalytic Conversations with States of Spirit Possession
Beauty in Brokenness
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2023
Summary
Shalini Masih grew up in a stimulating environment of priests and healers, witnessing firsthand states of spirit possession and exorcism. In adulthood, she revisited these experiences, motivating her to extend psychoanalysis outside the clinic's realms into spaces of traditional healing. The outcome of her detailed exploration acknowledges the hugely productive interface between cultural manifestations and concerns of psychoanalysis without reducing the phenomenon of spirit possession to something formulaic. Instead, Psychoanalytic Conversations with States of Spirit Possession: Beauty in Brokenness highlights the intrinsic beauty of this complex experience, illustrating relevant themes through culturally sensitive psychoanalytic conversations with participants who felt haunted and possessed by ghosts. The author's journey reveals the ghosts of her own inner world. She draws upon her reveries, dreams, and nightmares to make sense of the unconscious processes in her informant's testimonies, journeys that are so often undertaken from one grotesque ghost to another until these ghastly beings reappear as broken part-selves in search of the glue of spiritual meaning.
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Edition
1/2023
Copyright Year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-0211-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-0212-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
282
Product Type
Monograph
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Contents No access
Foreword No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Allies Lighting Up a Dark Path No access Pages 1 - 20
Various Beginnings No access Pages 21 - 48
Engaging with Lives—Loosening the Grip of Terror No access Pages 49 - 188
Between Dread and Meaning No access Pages 189 - 196
Psychoanalysis Under the Banyan Tree No access Pages 197 - 218
