title: Floating worlds and their phantoms in the aftermath of social catastrophes.
abstract: In this paper the author describes certain kinds of images (phantoms) that appear in the aftermath of social catastrophes. These phantoms come with an underlying narrative structure, which the author describes as phantom narratives. Phantom narratives show how the unconscious, working at the group and individual levels, provides political and social contexts within which the individual may find a different kind of containment for these catastrophes. In this way their suffering may be potentially processed psychologically and related to symbolically.
authors.affiliation: San Francisco, USA.
authors.forename: Samuel
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kimbles
mesh_terms: D004190:Disasters; D062406:Fukushima Nuclear Accident; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000208:ethnology; D063545:Personal Narratives as Topic; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D057192:Tsunamis; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology
keywords: Kulturelle Komplexe; Phantome; Phantomgeschichten; catastrofi sociali; catastrophes sociales; catástrofes sociales; complejos culturales; complessi culturali; complexes culturels; coциaльныe кaтacтpoфы.; cultural complexes; fantasmas; fantasmi; fantômes; fließende Welten; floating worlds; mondes flottants; mundos flotantes; narrativas fantasmales; narrative fantasma; parole fluide; phantom narratives; phantoms; récits fantômes; social catastrophes; soziale Katastrophen; дpeйфующиe миpы; культуpныe кoмплeкcы; фaнтoмныe нappaтивы; фaнтoмы; 幻影; 幻影叙事; 文化情结; 流动的世界; 社会灾难