TY - JOUR AU - Råhauge, Kirsten Marie PY - 2009/12/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - HJEMSØGELSER: Når det uvirkelige bliver virkeligt JF - Tidsskriftet Antropologi JA - TA VL - 0 IS - 59/60 SE - Artikler DO - 10.7146/ta.v0i59/60.106848 UR - https://tidsskrift.dk/tidsskriftetantropologi/article/view/106848 SP - AB - <p align="LEFT"><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: medium;"><em>Haunted </em></span><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: medium;">discusses experiences of ghosts in houses that are used as homes. Most</span></p><p align="LEFT">of the experiences in the study take place in contemporary Denmark. The many</p><p align="LEFT">ghost stories that are part of an ethnographic research project are connected to</p><p align="LEFT">the spatial and material conditions under which they take place. The article suggests</p><p align="LEFT">connections between the extra-material and the material-spatial register, e.g.</p><p align="LEFT"><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: medium;">perceptions of the home as a cell and a </span><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: medium;">fi </span><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: medium;">lter, of territoriality and property right,</span></p><p align="LEFT">connectedness to places and hyper-transmission. The article suggests haunting</p><p align="LEFT">as a state of emergency, where categories such as time and space are being transgressed:</p><p align="LEFT"><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: medium;">categories that are normally understood as </span><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: medium;">fi </span><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: medium;">xed or discrete. Through</span></p><p align="LEFT"><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: medium;">Freud’s concept </span><em><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: medium;">Das Unheimliche </span></em><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: medium;">and the spatial conditions under which it is</span></p><p align="LEFT"><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: medium;">experienced, and through Derrida’s concept </span><em><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: medium;">Spectre </span></em><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: medium;">and its deconstructive displacements,</span></p><p align="LEFT">the article sketches out an analytical framework for articulating these</p><p align="LEFT">strange experiences that seem to go beyond reason.</p><p>Keywords: Haunted houses, space, extra-materiality, Denmark.</p><p>&nbsp;</p> ER -