Refracting Affects: Affect, Psychotherapy, and Spirit Dis-Possession.

摘要: The notion of affect has generated much confusion in anthropology given its focus on that which seems to escape our language. evanescent features affects have irritated many anthropologists who consider theory as an empirically weak or esoteric hermeneutics. In this article, I respond these critiques by developing therapy foregrounds the role affects. My intent is explore possible contribution medical and psychological anthropology. draw from my ethnography couple's Argentina suggest we cannot understand therapeutic efficacy if only language discourse. ask what it means regard late modern spirits take psychotherapy a ritual "affect dispossession." propose how affects, like spirits, can haunt present rendering lives barely livable. Focusing session Buenos Aires, describe therapist channels spirit impasse colonizes her patients. Developing enchanted hermeneutics, engage with Eve Sedgwick's call for other-than-paranoid social engaging imagination important organ perception