Ch. 1. Culture, schizophrenia, and the political subject -- ch. 2. Old peoples, new identities : the story of Turkey -- ch. 3. Vicissitudes of political subjectivity : the story of Emel -- ch. 4. Power, faith, and the politics of identity : the story of Senem -- ch. 5. Love, los…
This book explores the relationship between subjective experience and the cultural, political and historical paradigms in which the individual is embedded. Providing a deep analysis of three compelling case studies of schizophrenia in Turkey, the book considers the ways in which…
"In this elegantly haunting volume Rahimi presents the complicated and dense texture of memory by anchoring it in specific phantoms of the everyday-a half pack of cigarettes and a ten-Franc coin, given as objects and claimed as mana, in words given as things and claimed as ghost…
"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 …