Letters to Maop: Living with a Ghost as Therapeutic Experience. (26th January 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Idria, Reza
• Other Names: Good Byron guestEditor.; Rahimi Sadeq guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Ethos. Volume 47:Number 4(2019:Dec.)
• Page Start: 465
• Page End: 479
• Publication Date: 2020-01-26
• Subjects: memory -- psychological anthropology -- haunting -- ghost -- therapeutic; Ethnopsychology -- Periodicals; Personality and culture -- Periodicals; 155.805
• DOI: 10.1111/etho.12258
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0091-2131

Abstract

Abstract: In post‐tsunami Aceh, an Indonesian province where prolonged armed conflict has already disrupted the lives of the Acehnese people for decades, ghost stories are common. But in what ways ghosts appear, how they are addressed when the border of what is real and what is spectral is subverted, and what kind of role they play in the political and social life of the Acehnese remains to be written. This article is addressed through the author's personal account and reflects that in a certain period of his life living with a ghost can be both a therapeutic process and a meaningful experience.