com gives you the ability to cite reference entries and articles according to common styles from the Modern Language Association (MLA), The Chicago Manual of Style, and the American Psychological Association (APA). Rasmussen (1995), and Judy Rosenthal (1998) bring contemporary French psychoanalytic theory ( Jacques Lacan) to the analysis of possessed language.

Social psychologists and ethnopsychologists have suggested that the difference found in the model of subjectivity of a possessed person and the model of subjectivity employed by modern psychology (that of an individual whose sickness is located in an individual psyche) leads to different levels of community-wide mental health. In all of these instances, a complex model of human agency is evoked by the notion that the human will and consciousness have been overcome, and that the human body has become receptive to the intervening agency of the possessing spirit.

The English word frenzy comes through the Latin phrenesis from the Greek phren, meaning the midriff, the heart, the upper part of the… Macumba , Macumba: see AFRO-BRAZILIAN CULTS. A. police detective and a female psychic must stop a demonic serial killer who was given the powers of resurrection, teleportation and possession. That the possessed woman's speech is nothing more than the words of her 'other,' or that she can only have the discourse of her judge, her doctor, the exorcist or witness is hardly by chance … but from the outset this situation excludes the possibility of tearing the possessed woman's true voice away from its alteration. Ann Grodzins Gold provides a useful definition and discussion of the term spirit possession in her study of possession in rural Rajasthan (1988, p.

A harmless game of Truth or Dare among friends turns deadly when someone - or something - begins to punish those who tell a lie or refuse the dare. The broad spectrum of roles humans have played in religious history, from mystics to prophets, are all variations on this very central theme. Something Ancestral Recaptured: Spirit Possession as Trope in Selected Feminist Fictions of the African Diaspora. An ethnography of the Meratus Dayaks of Indonesia with special attention given to Oma Adang, a female shaman, and with critical reflection on ethnography and "the gaze.

From this perspective, it is not important to create categorizations in which people can be placed; rather, the spectrum in which people experience themselves negotiating with a force of nonhuman origin is the common, formal ground of religious subjectivity in general. Without an audience, the possession has not effectively transpired because the possessed person is not conscious during the event to report on what has happened. Based on interviews with a Brazilian psychiatrist who is also an initiated elder of Candombl é, this ethnopsychiatric study argues that an approach that attends to both religious and medical motives in spirit possession cults is intrinsic to the goals of contemporary medical anthropology. Ann Braude (2001) discusses the spiritualism that coincided with the women's suffrage movement, noting that women who were inspired by the spirit were allowed a public forum in which to speak.

Gender and Religion, articles on Gender and African Religious Traditions, Gender and North American Indian Religious Tradition; Human Body, article on Human Bodies, Religion, and Gender; New Religious Movements; Religious Experience.The women stop work when possessed by hantu (ambivalent ghosts or spirits) and weretigers (akin to werewolves) in the factories. Not only are rigorous tests applied by the communities, but, as Gold notes, in Sri Lanka as well as in rural Rajasthan, the theatrical traditions of these communities show high levels of critical analysis in their employment of possessions in plays. In terms of the wars engaged by possessed women's bodies, there are two central types: gender conflict and territorial conflict. The Tale of Genji is a masterpiece of medieval Japanese literature, and Bargen studies the role of spirit possession among women from an interdisciplinary perspective. A teen girl finds herself besieged by an evil supernatural force after she played Ouija with two classmates.

Spirit possession has largely been interpreted by scholars as a phenomenon that impacts "traditional people," the poor, the uneducated, and women. An extroverted introvert is someone who mostly dwells on the introverted side of the personality but possesses many extroverted traits. Territorial wars and gender wars have been waged through the body of a possessed woman who serves as an instrumental agency in the struggles for power that religious bodies have been trained and tempered to engage. With an increased emphasis on the study of women's lives, as well as the lives of the poor and lower castes in Hinduism has come a wave of studies of spirit possession (Egnor, 1984; Inglis, 1985; Gold, 1988; Stanley, 1988) by the gods and goddesses of Hindu traditions. The danger is that these materialist analyses dismiss the possessing ancestors or spirits as mystifications, a categorization that might be more comfortable from a materialist perspective but that elides the agency of a pouncing hantu or the devil in a dollar.

A present day erotic horror about an aristocratic woman who inherits her family's castle and with it the werewolf curse. Detailed descriptions of contrasting events of spirit possession in rural Rajasthan that Gold locates within the context of a sophisticated indigenous ethno-performance theory. Tracks the dynamics and movement of women's involvement in Zar-Bori and the tension between Muslim authorities and women's practice. In many vodou traditions the possessed person is considered to be a chwal, or horse, who is mounted by her spirits (Brown, 1987, p.