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This book recuperates the important history that Haitian thought around Vodou possession has had in French critical theory.

Vodou --- Spirit possession --- Possession, Spirit --- Experience (Religion) --- Haitian studies --- French critical theory --- postcolonial theory --- possession --- dispossession --- self-possession --- pathology --- healing, braiding intellectual histories --- nationhood --- citizenship --- personhood --- pathologizing and a 'Western' intellectual history of possession --- 'unhappiness' as taboo --- anthropology --- psychology --- the disciplining of 'possession' --- secularizing possession --- revolution --- Breton's 'Haitian lectures' --- Leiris's 'lived theater' --- possession as the autobiography of the conscious and unconscious --- Brazil --- Herskovits --- Métraux --- anthropology and human rights --- Verger --- Bataille's 'Tears of Eros' --- Hollier's dispossessed intellectuals and Vodou thought --- biopolitical order --- de Certeau --- Michel Foucault --- Judith Butler --- Athena Athanasiou --- Franco-American ethnography --- Duvalier --- Vodou in Depestre's 'Hadriana dans tous mes rêves' --- 'A New World Mediterranean' --- the West's obsession with defining art --- aesthetic-empirical order of things --- Frankétienne --- Glissant --- 'Hadriana's' Realpolitik --- self-repossession --- the dispossessed --- subjectivities --- Jean-Claude Fignole's and Kettly Mars's novels --- 'un-becoming' racial --- 'AubeTranquille' --- possession as fluidity --- neoliberal order --- 'L'Heure hybride' --- 'Aux frontieres de la soif' --- transatlantic and hemispheric atlantic thought --- France --- Haiti --- the United States