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Psychoanalysis has traditionally viewed women as objects of desire.
Rethinking the Relation between Women and Psychoanalysis uses a
contemporary psychoanalytic view to resituate women’s place in
the narrative as desiring subjects. Contributors to this collection
raise questions about the status of woman in culture and society
and contend with the theme of loss and mourning that has been
associated with women since the beginning of psychoanalysis. The
various configurations of mourning, pain, regret, and grieving in
diverse societies and cultures are explored in order to reconstruct
the role of women in modern psychoanalysis.
Shalini Masih grew up as a child in a stimulating environment of
priests and healers, witnessing firsthand states of spirit
possession along with its potential to heal. In adulthood, her
psychoanalytic training prompted her to revisit these experiences
from a critical perspective, motivating her to take the tools of
psychoanalysis outside the realms of the clinic into the wider
spaces of traditional healing. The outcome of her detailed
exploration acknowledges the hugely productive interface between
cultural manifestations and questions of psychoanalytic theory,
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 and enriching experience, illustrating
relevant themes through the use of 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, and she draws upon her reveries, dreams, and
nightmares to make sense of the deeper 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.
Rethinking the Relation between Women and Psychoanalysis: Loss,
Mourning, and the Feminine uses contemporary psychoanalytic views
to resituate women as desiring subjects within the psychoanalytic
narrative. Contributors to this edited collection explore the
various configurations of mourning, pain, regret, and grieving in
diverse societies and cultures in order to reconstruct the role of
women in modern psychoanalysis. They raise questions about the
status of women in culture and society and contend with themes that
psychoanalysts have associated with women since the late nineteenth
century, such as loss and mourning, femininity and motherhood, and
desire and sexuality. This book is recommended for students and
scholars of psychology, gender studies, cultural studies,
literature, and philosophy.
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