In this article, I engage the existential and ontological ambiguity of “hauntology” by considering the three figures of specter, phantom, and demon. The literary ghost, the psychoanalytic ancestor introject, and the theological evil spirit evoke distinct but interrelated modes of being and nonbeing, presence and absence, subjectivity and intersubjectivity. What they have in common is the element of secrecy, where the secret may in various instances be shameful, not yet speakable, or deceitful. My ethnographic focus is on the demon in contemporary Roman Catholic exorcism as a figure of lies, deceit, and destruction within a ritually constructed assumptive world, and I examine this figure by describing the hauntological structure of the lifeworld of a demonically afflicted woman. The analysis shows that the notion of hauntology can help understand the contemporary phenomenon of Catholic exorcism, but also reciprocally that the examining of the practice of exorcism can help elaborate a theory of hauntology.

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幽灵，幻影，恶魔

在本文中，我通过考虑“幽灵”，“幻影”和“恶魔”这三个数字，来探讨“困扰论”的存在性和本体论上的歧义。文学的幽灵，精神分析的祖先的注入以及神学的恶魔唤起了独特但相互联系的存在与否，存在与缺失，主观性和主体间性的相互联系的方式。他们的共同点是保密的元素，在各种情况下，秘密可能是可耻的，尚未言语的或欺骗性的。我的人种志研究重点是当代罗马天主教驱魔的恶魔，它是一个在仪式上建立的假设世界中的谎言，欺骗和破坏的形象，我通过描述一个遭受魔鬼折磨的女人的生活世界的错觉结构来检查这个形象。