Haunting

If we take the notion of the ghost not as a literal being or non being or being haunted not as a state of literally being plagued by such a thing and instead conceive of it figuratively, is it not instead a tale of living with something (someone) whose image or impression we want to be gone but will not leave? And an exorcism, is it not instead a choice to face this being, this thing that weighs us down every day, and instead choose not to escape but to face it such that we may live a better tomorrow?