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

Collu, Samuele

doi:10.1007/s11013-018-9616-5

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“…While there has been much debate on and critique of affect and its various genealogies (Gregg & Seigworth, 2010; Leys, 2011; Martin, 2013), affect offers a set of conceptual apparatuses to think about moving things and felt presences that evade signification (Stewart, 2007), presences that reach and alter embodied existence, a kind of other‐than‐human “something‐something that catches you” (Collu, 2019, 296), and a felt reality of a relation (Massumi, 2002 in Collu, 2019). Affect theory decenters subjectivity, offering a mode of analysis that moves exclusively away from a subject's motivation to a felt sensation moving between entities.…”

Section: Knowing the Divine Through Schizophreniamentioning

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Divine trauma: Schizophrenia and unresolved realities in South India

Bala

2023

Ethos

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This article explores the relationship between schizophrenia, divine encounters, and therapeutics based on ethnographic research in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Contributing to a long history of single‐subject ethnographies in psychological anthropology, this article narrates the events leading up to the diagnosis and the emerging life worlds post‐diagnosis of an interlocutor I call Dhruv. I depart from symbolic constructions of the divine to an affective divine, a kind of force that enters and alters embodied existence. Following scholars who call for theories that move beyond Western metropolitan epistemologies, I draw upon the Bhagavad Gita, a poetic scripture from the Hindu tradition, as a form of psychological theory to contend how an encounter with the divine might be too much to bear, even traumatic. In doing so, the article offers an alternative entry point to the commonly held assumption of the therapeutic efficacy of divine encounters and religious sites in India.

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Section: Knowing the Divine Through Schizophreniamentioning

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“…As Collu (2019) and Schneider (2023) write, however, there is a tendency to take notions generated in the field as anthropological objects and equate them to Western metropolitan hermeneutics. Equating Dhruv's sensation of the divine to an affect of trauma may also be another reductive mechanism.…”

Section: Knowing the Divine Through Schizophreniamentioning

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Divine trauma: Schizophrenia and unresolved realities in South India

Bala

2023

Ethos

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“…During sessions that were open to the public, analysands would share their emotional states and feelings with the other attendees and tell stories about specific personal events. Some of these sessions were extremely moving, to the point of creating a "refracting of afective states" (Collu 2019), a sort of emotional cloud that hovered above the room and "touched" (Derrida 2005) everyone pre sent during the verbal per for mance. One example occurred when a grand mother declared that she did not want to live anymore after a car crash killed two of her three grand sons and her daughter.…”

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Genres of Listening

Marsilli-Vargas¹

2022

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In Genres of Listening Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas explores a unique culture of listening and communicating in Buenos Aires. She traces how psychoanalytic listening circulates beyond the clinical setting to become a central element of social interaction and cultural production in the city that has the highest number of practicing psychologists and psychoanalysts in the world. Marsilli-Vargas develops the concept of genres of listening to demonstrate that hearers listen differently, depending on where, how, and to whom they are listening. In particular, she focuses on psychoanalytic listening as a specific genre. Porteños (citizens of Buenos Aires) have developed a “psychoanalytic ear” that emerges during conversational encounters in everyday interactions in which participants offer different interpretations of the hidden meaning the words carry. Marsilli-Vargas does not analyze these interpretations as impositions or interruptions but as productive exchanges. By outlining how psychoanalytic listening operates as a genre, Marsilli-Vargas opens up ways to imagine other modes of listening and forms of social interaction.

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‘Acute-on-chronic’: Emergency Affect and the One-way Staircase of Pharmaceutical Escalation

Stonington

2020

Medical Anthropology

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

Cited by 26 publications

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Divine trauma: Schizophrenia and unresolved realities in South India

Divine trauma: Schizophrenia and unresolved realities in South India

Genres of Listening

‘Acute-on-chronic’: Emergency Affect and the One-way Staircase of Pharmaceutical Escalation

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