ABSTRACT
Can lungian theorizing possibly enrich anthropology? At least since the publication of Irving Hallowell's seminal Culture and Experience (1955), anthropologists have expressed interest in a rapprochement with psychology. However, many have deliberated about how to describe possession in nonWestern settings without resorting to psychological description; they argue (quite rightly) that inherent within psychological language is a tendency to objectify and pathologize. They attempt to report without pathologizing what the cultures they are studying do not themselves pathologize. lung also attempted to describe the psyche and, specifically, the experience of possession in terms of consciousness, identity, and the experience of an Other without pathologizing these experiences, and I believe that lung can offer anthropologists a surprisingly useful conceptual bridge.
