Recent writing in anthropology, particularly of Southeast Asia, suggests a “spectral” turn within ethnographic theorizing, influenced by Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx and wide‐ranging writing on ghosts, haunting, and spectrality within cultural studies. This article argues that “haunting” and “hauntology” have a critical place within psychological anthropology and theories of subjectivity. The article provides a personal genealogy of how the author has come to use this concept for reflections on over 20 years of work in Indonesia. And it makes four suggestions for theorizing hauntology in psychological anthropology. It suggests first, that hauntology requires that we address the complex processes through which traumatic dimensions of contested historical experience are simultaneously kept hidden and made visible, and second that such accounts must address the complex relations between individual psychological experience and the political, which in turn requires a conception of the barred self and its haunting. Third, it suggests that we address questions of why outbreaks of ghosts appear when they do and what kinds of social and psychological responses they provoke. The article concludes with a brief exploration of the possibilities of a “hauntological ethics.”

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困扰论：心理学人类学中的光谱理论

最近人类学的著作，尤其是东南亚的人类学著作表明，在雅克·德里达的《马克思的幽灵》的影响下，人种学理论化的“光谱”转向以及有关文化研究中鬼影，困扰和光谱的广泛著作。本文认为，“困扰”和“困扰论”在心理学人类学和主观性理论中具有至关重要的地位。本文提供了一个个人谱系，介绍了作者如何将这一概念用于对印度尼西亚20年以上工作的反思。并为心理学人类学中的行为学理论化提出了四个建议。它表明，首先，困扰论要求我们解决复杂的过程，同时使有争议的历史经验的创伤维度保持隐藏并使其可见，其次，此类叙述必须解决个人心理经验与政治之间的复杂关系，而这反过来又需要禁止的自我及其困扰的概念。第三，它建议我们解决以下问题：幽灵爆发时为什么会出现爆发，以及它们会引起什么样的社会和心理反应。本文最后简要探讨了“缠身伦理学”的可能性。