This book investigates the complex relationship between deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and the persistent presence of the past, particularly as it manifests in the concept of the 'return of the dead'. Colin Davis examines how post-structuralist thought, especially Derrida's deconstruction, engages with and challenges psychoanalytic theories of subjectivity and memory. The work explores how spectrality, trauma, and the uncanny operate within both theoretical frameworks to understand the ways in which the past continues to haunt the present.

Colin Davis's 'Haunted Subjects' is recognized as a significant contribution to the interdisciplinary study of deconstruction and psychoanalysis. The book is noted for its rigorous engagement with complex theoretical material, offering nuanced readings of how spectrality and the past's return are conceptualized within these fields. It is likely to be of interest to scholars and advanced students in literary theory, philosophy, and psychoanalytic studies, providing a dense yet rewarding analysis of enduring theoretical problems.