Free Online Talk · Come to Me! Phantom Lovers, Erotic Ghosts and Other Sensual Specters with Cultural Historian Jason Lahman
Monday, February 24, 2025
7pm ET (NYC time)
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This lecture is offered as a preview of the upcoming course Femme Fatale II: More Feminine Archetypes of Danger, Dark Magic and Daring-Do.
Tales of mortals seduced by ghosts or other shadowy spirits reflect the allure of forbidden love and the terrible grip of the past. From the "woman in white" of English folklore, who lures travelers to their doom, to the Greek eidolons made of cloud sent to seduce humans, from Japanese yūrei who return from death to enchant or avenge to the nightmare-riding succubus that ravished sleeping monks in the Middle Ages, the phantom lover symbolizes irresistible desire and existential threat, manifesting in altered states of consciousness and as the result of pathological grief or stifled passions. By confronting these spectral figures, we reflect on timeless anxieties about connection, memory, and the fragile line between the real and the unreal, the mental and the material.
Jason Lahman is an artist and cultural historian specializing in the history of technology, science and the occult. He has taught a number of classes for Morbid Anatomy including A Cultural History of Robots, A History of Fairies and The Femme Fatale.
Monday, February 24, 2025
7pm ET (NYC time)
Free! RSVP with email at checkout
PLEASE NOTE: Video playback of free events is only available to Patreon members. Become a Member HERE.
Ticketholders: A Zoom invite is sent out two hours before the event to the email used at checkout. Please check your spam folder and if not received, email hello@morbidanatomy.org.
This lecture is offered as a preview of the upcoming course Femme Fatale II: More Feminine Archetypes of Danger, Dark Magic and Daring-Do.
Tales of mortals seduced by ghosts or other shadowy spirits reflect the allure of forbidden love and the terrible grip of the past. From the "woman in white" of English folklore, who lures travelers to their doom, to the Greek eidolons made of cloud sent to seduce humans, from Japanese yūrei who return from death to enchant or avenge to the nightmare-riding succubus that ravished sleeping monks in the Middle Ages, the phantom lover symbolizes irresistible desire and existential threat, manifesting in altered states of consciousness and as the result of pathological grief or stifled passions. By confronting these spectral figures, we reflect on timeless anxieties about connection, memory, and the fragile line between the real and the unreal, the mental and the material.
Jason Lahman is an artist and cultural historian specializing in the history of technology, science and the occult. He has taught a number of classes for Morbid Anatomy including A Cultural History of Robots, A History of Fairies and The Femme Fatale.
Monday, February 24, 2025
7pm ET (NYC time)
Free! RSVP with email at checkout
PLEASE NOTE: Video playback of free events is only available to Patreon members. Become a Member HERE.
Ticketholders: A Zoom invite is sent out two hours before the event to the email used at checkout. Please check your spam folder and if not received, email hello@morbidanatomy.org.
This lecture is offered as a preview of the upcoming course Femme Fatale II: More Feminine Archetypes of Danger, Dark Magic and Daring-Do.
Tales of mortals seduced by ghosts or other shadowy spirits reflect the allure of forbidden love and the terrible grip of the past. From the "woman in white" of English folklore, who lures travelers to their doom, to the Greek eidolons made of cloud sent to seduce humans, from Japanese yūrei who return from death to enchant or avenge to the nightmare-riding succubus that ravished sleeping monks in the Middle Ages, the phantom lover symbolizes irresistible desire and existential threat, manifesting in altered states of consciousness and as the result of pathological grief or stifled passions. By confronting these spectral figures, we reflect on timeless anxieties about connection, memory, and the fragile line between the real and the unreal, the mental and the material.
Jason Lahman is an artist and cultural historian specializing in the history of technology, science and the occult. He has taught a number of classes for Morbid Anatomy including A Cultural History of Robots, A History of Fairies and The Femme Fatale.