Yi, Mi-Kyung

The Figure of the Dead Child: Between Phantom and Phantasy - 2012.


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All that remains of the phantom might be just the shadow of itself. The phantom, considered as a shadow enclosed in melancholy, or as a wandering specter masked as fate, concerns in particular two psychopathological fields: depression and intergenerational transmission. Through the study of a figure at their intersection—the dead child—the author offers some considerations on the complex relationship between phantom and phantasy.