Haunted Subjects: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis and the Return of the Dead

✍ Scribed by Colin Davis

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 188
• Edition: First Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Why do the dead return? Are the dead lost to us for ever, or do they remain part of the world of the living? This book examines these questions as they persistently emerge in areas as diverse as film, Holocaust testimony, and in the works of thinkers such as Jacques Derrida and the psychoanalysts Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok. The book suggests that it may be as difficult for the living to get rid of the dead as it is to live without them.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
......Page 1
Half Title
......Page 2
Title Page
......Page 4
Copyright
......Page 5
Table of Contents
......Page 6
Acknowledgements
......Page 7
1. Introduction: The Return of the Dead
......Page 8
2. Vampires, Death Drives and Silent Film
......Page 27
3. Sartre's Living Dead
......Page 50
4. Lying Ghosts in Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis
......Page 73
5. The Ghosts of Auschwitz: Charlotte Delbo
......Page 100
6. Speaking with the Dead: De Man, Levinas, Agamben
......Page 118
7. Derrida's Haunted Subjects
......Page 135
8. Burying the Dead
......Page 158
Notes
......Page 167
Bibliography
......Page 179
Index
......Page 185