Ghosts

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.

Autorentext

CLIVE BLOOM Reader in English and American Studies at Middlesex University CHRISTINA BRITZOLAKIS Lecturer in English at the University of Warwick STEVEN CONNOR Professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Birkbeck College, University of London NATALKA FREELAND Assistant Professor of English at the University of Alberta KEN GELDER Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies at Melbourne University, Australia JANE M. JACOBS Lecturer in Geography at Melbourne University, Australia ROGER LUCKHURST Lecturer in English at Birkbeck College, University of London WILLY MALEY Lecturer in English at the University of Glasgow NIGEL MAPP Research Fellow at the University of Leeds MANDY MERCK former editor of the film and television studies journal, Screen RALPH NOYES Honorary Secretary of the Society for Psychical Research RUTH PARKIN-GOUNELAS Associate Professor of English at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece

Inhalt
Notes on Contributors Introduction: A Future for Haunting; P.Buse and A.Stott I: SPECTRALITY AND THEORY Specters of Engels; W.Maley 'Something Tremendous, Something Elemental': On the Ghostly Origins of Psychoanalysis; R.Luckhurst Phantasmagoria: Walter Benjamin and the Poetics of Urban Modernism; C.Britzolakis Spectre and Impurity: History and the Transcendental in Derrida and Adorno; N.Mapp II: UNCANNY FICTIONS Anachrony and Anatopia: Specters of Marx, Derrida and Gothic Fiction; R.Parkin-Gounelas Theft, Terror, and Family Values: The Mysteries and Domesticities of Udolpho; N.Freeland The Medium of Exchange; M.Merck The Postcolonial Ghost Story; K.Gelder and J.M.Jacobs III: SPECTRAL CULTURE The Machine in the Ghost: Spiritualism, Technology, and the 'Direct Voice'; S.Connor Angles in the Architecture: the Economy of the Supernatural; C.Bloom The Other Side of Plato's Wall; R.Noyes Index