Shades of Becoming is proud to announce the official in house virtual book launch for this incredible work by our founder Dr Shalini Masih: Psychoanalytic Conversations with States of Spirit Possessions: Beauty in Brokenness.
This is an open event. Please click on the link in bio to register.
This book acknowledges the hugely productive interface between cultural manifestations and concerns of psychoanalysis without reducing the phenomenon of spirit possession to something formulaic. Instead, Beauty in Brokenness highlights the intrinsic beauty of this complex experience, illustrating relevant themes through culturally sensitive psychoanalytic conversations with participants who felt haunted and possessed by ghosts. Masih invites the experience of her participants. This invitation reveals the ghosts of her own inner world. She draws upon her reveries, dreams, and nightmares to make sense of the unconscious processes in her informant’s testimonies, journeys that are so often undertaken from one grotesque ghost to another until these ghastly beings reappear as broken part-selves in search of the glue of spiritual meaning.
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