Haunted subjects [electronic resource] : deconstruction, psychoanalysis and the return of the dead / Colin Davis
出版項
Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave, 2007
說明
vi, 181 p
附註
Electronic reproduction. Basingstoke, England : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Mode of access:World Wide Web. System requirements: Web browser. Title from title screen (viewed on Mar. 3, 2009). Access may berestricted to users at subscribing institutions
Why do the dead return? Are they lost to us forever, or do they remain part of the world of the living? Can we live with them, and can we live without them? Such questions emerge in popular films which depict ghosts, vampires and zombies. They are also key issues in psychoanalysisand recent theoretical writing. This book examines the return of the dead in areas as diverse as film, Holocausttestimony, and in the work of thinkers such as Freud, Sartre, Agamben, Levinas, and de Man. It showsthat the persistence of ghosts in recent films is related to broader philosophical and theoreticalconcerns, as explored in the work of Jacques Derrida and the psychoanalysts Nicolas Abraham and MariaTorok. Through a series of close analyses, the book suggests that it may as difficult for the living to get rid of the dead as it is to live without them
Introduction: The Return of the Dead -- Vampires, Death Drives, and Silent Film -- Sartre's Living Dead -- Lying Ghosts in Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis -- The Ghosts of Auschwitz: Charlotte Delbo -- Speaking with the Dead: De Man, Levinas, Agamben -- Derrida's Haunted Subjects -- Buryingthe Dead
Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-177) and index
