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3 papers in the library · 2 citations · publishing 2025-2026
Angelaki July 4, 2026 Lyman Gamberton
This paper is a field guide to the haunted shtetl. I analyse S. Ansky’s stage play The Dybbuk and the religio-social phenomenon of spirit possession in early modern Judaism through the lens of Creepy Studies, with a particular focus on abjection, pollution, and dark play. A dybbuk is a type of restless spirit from Kabbalistic cosmology, first identified in sixteenth-century Palestine: a dead...
Angelaki March 4, 2025 Amador Vega, E. Coles
Abstract The history of philosophy is scored with crossroads, from the anecdotic to the foundational. Understanding the crossroads as a mise-en-scène of personal and intellectual crisis, this article scans the encounters of some of the most significant figures in twentieth-century philosophy with the canonical texts of Western mysticism. In such encounters, it is argued, the intimate testimony...
Angelaki January 2, 2025 Claire Colebrook 2 citations
When Freud described the “oceanic feeling” of intimated plenitude that haunted the boundaries of consciousness he both intensified a post-enlightenment aesthetics that imagined the beyond of civilization is female, fluid, and undifferentiated and gave modernist poetics a theory of an almost unthinkable serenity beyond the limits of identity. European Romanticism and modernism, for all their...