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 Bubant, Nils. “A Psychology of Ghosts: The Regime of the Self and the Reinvention of Spirits in Indonesia and Beyond.”  //  Anthropological Forum   //  22.1 (2012) : 1-23. Web.   Nils Bubant offers a comparison between changing perceptions of ghosts in eastern Indonesia and in recent Hollywood cinema, exploring a link between   **  ‘spirits and changing conceptions of self’   **  on an international scale. Bubant suggests that a developing  **  ‘interiorized and psychologized’   **  human perspective implicates spirits, as people develop into more self-aware   **  ‘psychological beings’   **. Bubant discusses a new kind of ghost emerging in both the Western and Indonesian cultures, as well as the many social forces affecting the evolution of discourse regarding death.   This article focuses heavily on modern cultural perspectives regarding ghosts, and explores diverse Western and Indonesian views. The themes mentioned in this article also tie in with the idea of spirits facilitating a form of processing trauma, and compliments ideas proposed in Rosalind Morris’s article below. This source provides a qualified modern perspective on the cultural influence of ghosts in popular media across the globe.