The ghost that haunts is usually understood as the return of a subject that has lived and died, and yet it, or some representation of it, has refused to leave. Such refusal to leave, however, should not be understood as the manifestation of an agency that wills to stay—at least not in the traditional sense in which we think of the agency of the subject. This article uses a case study of psychosis to trace the ghost's persistence to the semiotic processes that underlie haunting as a phenomenological experience. It examines the psychoanalytic notion of objet petit a as the object cause of desire of an individual or a group of people, left unanchored by certain circumstances. The orphaned objet petit a thus represents the unfulfilled desire of dead subject(s) that lingers in the shared symbolic space demanding heed from the subjects of that symbolic order. As the specularization of such demand, the ghost may represent an individual or a group of people, an era, or a historical past as such. The ghost in this sense provides a window to the process of subjectivity as a pantemporal articulation of meaning, power, and history and hauntology a grammar promising to unpack that otherwise cryptic language.

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镜射死者欲望的客体原因：一个鬼故事

鬼魂通常被理解为是一个已经死活的对象的归来，但是它或它的某种表现形式却拒绝离开。但是，这种拒绝离开不应被理解为是一个愿意留下的代理人的表现-至少不是在我们认为对象的代理人的传统意义上。本文使用精神病的案例研究，将鬼魂的持久性追溯到作为现象学经验困扰的符号学过程。它研究了对象微型的心理分析概念，它是个人或一群人的愿望的客观原因，而在某些情况下却不受其束缚。孤儿小雕像因此，这代表了死尸的未实现愿望，他们徘徊在共享的象征空间中，需要从该象征秩序的主体那里得到注意。作为这种需求的具体化，幽灵可以代表一个人或一群人，一个时代或一个历史过去。从这个意义上讲，鬼魂为主观过程提供了一个窗口，作为对意义，力量，历史和缠身的泛时表达，这是一种语法，有望解开原本神秘的语言。