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Postmemory and Possession

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This paper examines the phenomena of ‘postmemory’ as a mode of possession that responds to experiences of suffering. As such, the hyper-connectivity it is concerned with is not that of the digitalisation of contemporary life but is rather ‘vertical’ hyper-connectivity indicating the disturbance of past injustices that have neither been mourned nor remedied and so keep returning to haunt the present and the future.

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Notes

  1. Thanks to my PhD student Ana Minozzo for detailed work on this material.

  2. Psicanálise e Contexto Social no Brasil: Fluxos Transnacionais, Impacto Cultural e Regime Autoritário. Projeto FAPESP 2015/11244–3. My co-researcher was Professor Belinda Mandelbaum of the University of São Paulo.

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Frosh, S. Postmemory and Possession. Int J Semiot Law 33, 515–528 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-020-09720-x

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