Psychoanalytic Conversations with States of Spirit Possession

Beauty in Brokenness

Shalini Masih (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

322 Seiten

2023
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-6669-0211-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Shalini Masih is practicing as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in United Kingdom. She has taught psychoanalysis in institutions like Ambedkar University Delhi, India and Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter I: Allies Lighting Up a Dark Path
Chapter II: Various Beginnings
Chapter III: Engaging With Lives, Loosening the Grip of Terror
Chapter IV: Between Dread and Meaning
Chapter V: Psychoanalysis Under the Banyan Tree
Chapter VI: Ghosts as Messengers
References
Index
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	11.10.2023
Reihe/Serie	Psychoanalytic Studies: Clinical, Social, and Cultural Contexts
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 237 mm
Gewicht	599 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-6669-0211-X / 166690211X
ISBN-13	978-1-6669-0211-2 / 9781666902112
Zustand	Neuware