Samuele Collu

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

Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry June 1, 2019 Samuele Collu 39 citations

The notion of affect has generated much confusion in anthropology given its focus on that which seems to escape our language. The evanescent features of affects have irritated many anthropologists who consider affect theory as an empirically weak or esoteric hermeneutics. In this article, I respond to these critiques by developing an anthropology of therapy that foregrounds the role of affects....