Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly

Transmissions
Stephen Frosh
Paperback

9781137031273

21.99 / $36.00

Hardcover

9781137031242

56.00 / $90.00

Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions shows how the present is troubled by the past and
by the future, using the idea of haunting to explore psychoanalytically how identities, beliefs, intimacies
and hatreds are transmitted across generations and between people. It deals with the secrets that we
inherit, the 'pull' of the past, and the way emotions, thoughts and impulses enter into us from others as a
kind of immaterial yet real communication. This book demonstrates how past oppressions return,
demanding acknowledgement and reparation, and explores how recognition and forgiveness can arise
from this. Rooted in psychoanalysis, postcolonial and psychosocial studies, Frosh addresses the question of
what passes through and between human subjects and how these things structure social and
psychopolitical life.
STEPHEN FROSH is Pro-Vice-Master and Professor in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck
College, University of London, UK. He is the author of many books and papers on psychosocial studies and
on psychoanalysis, including Psychoanalysis Outside the Clinic, Hate and the Jewish Science: Anti-Semitism,
Nazism and Psychoanalysis, For and Against Psychoanalysis, After Words, The Politics of Psychoanalysis,
Sexual Difference and Identity Crisis. His most recent books are Feelings and A Brief Introduction to
Psychoanalytic Theory.

Available from all good booksellers or online at www.palgrave.com

To order in the USA or Canada: T: 888-330-8477
If you are in Australia or New Zealand: E: palgrave@macmillan.com.au
To order in UK or rest of w orld: T: +44 (0)1256 302866, E:
orders@palgrave.com