1. Floating worlds and their phantoms in the aftermath of social catastrophes.
- Author
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Kimbles S
- Subjects
- Disasters, Humans, Japan ethnology, Fukushima Nuclear Accident, Personal Narratives as Topic, Psychoanalytic Theory, Tsunamis, Unconscious, Psychology
- Abstract
In this paper the author describes certain kinds of images (phantoms) that appear in the aftermath of social catastrophes. These phantoms come with an underlying narrative structure, which the author describes as phantom narratives. Phantom narratives show how the unconscious, working at the group and individual levels, provides political and social contexts within which the individual may find a different kind of containment for these catastrophes. In this way their suffering may be potentially processed psychologically and related to symbolically., (© 2017, The Society of Analytical Psychology.)
- Published
- 2017
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