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The Hauntology of Everyday Life

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  1. Sadeq Rahimi

    1. Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

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  • Develops a comprehensive frame for applying the theory of hauntology to everyday life from clinical and ethnographic points of view
  • Demonstrates the immediate relevance of hauntological analysis in everyday life
  • Uses vignettes and data from ethnographic research and clinical settings

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. A Hauntology for Everyday Life

    • Sadeq Rahimi
    Pages 1-8

  3. Meaning, Language, and Subjectivity

    • Sadeq Rahimi
    Pages 9-18

  4. Ghosts, Metaphors, and Structures of Feeling

    • Sadeq Rahimi
    Pages 19-48

  5. The Haunted Objects of Desire

    • Sadeq Rahimi
    Pages 49-66

  6. Hauntology sans Exorcism, from Justice to Networked Subjectivities

    • Sadeq Rahimi
    Pages 67-75

  7. Epilogue by Michael M.J. Fischer: Hauntology’s Genesis, Catacoustics, and Future Shadows

    • Sadeq Rahimi
    Pages 77-95

  8. Correction to: The Hauntology of Everyday Life

    • Sadeq Rahimi
    Pages C1-C1

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 97-106
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This volume develops a comprehensive framework for applying the theory of hauntology to everyday life from ethnographic and clinical points of view. The central argument of the book is that all human experience is fundamentally haunted, and that a shift from ontological theory of subjective experience to a hauntological one is necessary and has urgent implications. Building on the notion of hauntology outlined by Derrida, the discussions are developed within the frameworks of psychoanalytic theory, specifically Jacques Lacan’s object relational theory of ego development and his structural reading of Freud’s theory of the psychic apparatus and its dynamics; along with the Hegelian ontology of the negative and its later modifications by 20th century philosophers such as Heidegger and Derrida; and the semiotics of difference introduced by Saussure and worked by Jakobson and others. This book argues and demonstrates the immediate relevance of hauntological analysis in everyday life by providing a microanalysis of the roles played by power, meaning and desire; and by using vignettes and data from ethnographic research and clinical settings, as well as references to literature, movies and other cultural products.

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  • Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

    Sadeq Rahimi

About the author

Sadeq Rahimi, MSc, PhD, is a Research Associate in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and an Adjunct Professor of Culture and Psychoanalysis at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. Dr. Rahimi is a psychoanalytically trained clinician and holds a private practice in psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

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