Twilight states

This article compares two case studies: that of Anna O., whose hysteria helped found psychoanalysis, with possessed Wolof priestess Khady Fall. Questioning the psychic separation modern subject, I contend cultures a spirit idiom are potentially more sensitive to complexities interpersonal relationships. In both cases, paternal influence wreaks havoc, but where ritual, myth, and magic empower become healer herself, O. is not so lucky. The poverty scientific viewpoint overrun by phantasmic excess it fails explain, unable admit analyst too implicated in this numinous morass unacted desires. internalization worlds into their consequent reduction confinement category “hallucination,” blinds us affective intensities phantasy upon exclusion our sense reality founded.