Educational Insights | Volume 13, Number 4, 2009 | Jan de Vos | The Academy of Everyday Life—Psychology, hauntology, and psychoanalysis Page 1 of 17 de Vos, J. (2009). The Academy of Everyday Life—Psychology, hauntology, and psychoanalysis Educational Insights, 13 (4). [Available: http://www.ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/publication/insights/v13n04/articles/de_vos/index.html] The Academy of Everyday Life— Psychology, hauntology, and psychoanalysis Jan De Vos Ghent University, Belgium ©Valerie Triggs In the end, Bret — you were the ghost (Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park) Introduction: The Academization of Everyday Life and the Freudian heritage In which other then in academic terms would pathology come in these post-modern times? Everyday life is encroached by Academia, and we all have adopted the eager gaze of for example the psy-sciences. Pathology as such passes over the academic discourse. Academization and psychologization even seem the very symptom of our times.