"Creating a world for Spirit": affectual infrastructures and the production of a place for affect.

Highlights • Utilizes original fieldwork to provide a detailed account of the emergence of affect in a spiritual situation. • Introduces the original concepts of affectual forms and affectual infrastructures to account for the emergence of affect. • Which, together, provides a novel approach to the problem of spirit communication. • Grounded in an understanding of unconscious communication derived from psychoanalysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]