1Acknowledgements
22…This is My Perception, in the Perception of the Other…
2Preface
23… “O for the Touch of A Vanish’d Hand!”…
3To start from loss…
24…What Does it Mean to Say One is Touched?…
4…I Am, Yet What I Am…
25…There is A “gap in Local Continuity As Well As Sense”…
5…Someone Who Identifies Him- or Herself As ‘european’…
26…We Hold On, or Make-believe We Do, to An Empirical Past We Can No Longer Have…
6…Dwelling Through the Careful Reading of the Traces of the Past…
27…There is … That Which is ‘felt from Within’…
7…They Stay With Us As Afterimages, Traces of A Familiar Conventionality That is Lost, But Remembered…
28…Imagine What Has Been and That Which is No Longer, and Yet ‘is’ Otherwise…
8…A Matter of Unthinking Residence…
29…What Would Constitute An Invisible Appearance?…
9…Essentially Decorporealised Visions…
30…Pause in Order to Rethink, or Simply to Think for A First Time…
10…Haunting, the Spectral and the Uncanny…
31…We are Opening Ourselves to A Different Materiality, An (a)material Historicity of the Subject…
11…An Archive of the Traces of Experience…
32…Allow Me to Conjure the Scene for You…
12…A Series of Apparitions…
33…Visitation of Any Kind Implies That ‘absolute Hospitality’ Must be Extended…
13…It is Perhaps A Question of Memory, and Modernity, it Seems, is to Blame…
34…Appearance is Everything Here…
14…It is As If All the World Touched Me…
35…There is A Point of Invisibility, A Limit to Visibility…
15…The Ghosts are Already Here of Course…
36…Can This Ghost Touch You in the Same Way?…
16…There is the Primacy of Perception, Which is Groundless…
37…There is No Accounting, No General Principle by Which One’s Being Haunted Can be Considered the Same for Everyone…
17…All Possible Meanings Resonate…
38…We Might Begin to Think … in Terms of … the Givenness of Being, If We are to Start With Loss.
18…All Memory is the Memory of Loss…
39Works cited
19…The Apparition is Called Up As Much As it Arrives Unbidden…
40ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
20…Do You See What I Mean?…
41BY THE SAME AUTHOR
21…I is the Frame by Which I Name Myself…
42Notes