Format:
Online-Ressource (232 p)
ISBN:
9780252035647
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1283028743
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025203564X
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9780252090059
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9780252077517
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0252077512
Content:
In Unruly Spirits, M. Brady Brower connects the study of seances, telepathy, telekinesis, materializations, and other parapsychic phenomena in modern France to an epistemological crisis that would eventually yield the French adoption of psychoanalysis. Skillfully navigating experiments conducted by nineteenth-century French psychical researchers, Brower situates the institutional development of psychical research at the intersection of popular faith and the emergent discipline of psychology. He reveals that, by acknowledging persistent doubt about the intentions of its participants, psychical research would result in the realization of a subjectivity that was essentially indeterminate and would thus clear the way for the French reception of psychoanalysis and the Freudian unconscious and its more comprehensive account of subjective uncertainty.
Content:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Psychical Research and French Science -- 1. From Religious Enthusiams to Reluctant Science: Psychical Research, 1848-1882 -- 2. The Development of Psychical Research in France, 1882-1900 -- 3. The Measure of Uncertainty: The Institut Général Psychologique, 1900-1908 -- 4. The Master and His Double: Charles Richet and the Literary Unconcious -- 5. In the Wake of War: The Institut Métapsychique International -- 6. The Limits of Method: The Question of Good Faith and the Decline of Psychical Research -- Conclusion: Indeterminacy and the Discourse of Tables -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Description based upon print version of record
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"Cover"; "Title Page"; "Copyright"; "Table of Contents"; "Acknowledgments"; "Introduction: Psychical Research and French Science"; "1. From Religious Enthusiams to Reluctant Science: Psychical Research, 1848-1882"; "2. The Development of Psychical Research in France, 1882-1900"; "3. The Measure of Uncertainty: The Institut Général Psychologique, 1900-1908"; "4. The Master and His Double: Charles Richet and the Literary Unconcious"; "5. In the Wake of War: The Institut Métapsychique International"
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"6. The Limits of Method: The Question of Good Faith and the Decline of Psychical Research"; "Conclusion: Indeterminacy and the Discourse of Tables"; "Notes"; "Bibliography"; "Index"
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Introduction : psychical research and French scienceFrom religious enthusiasm to reluctant science : psychical research, 1848-1882 -- The development of psychical research in France, 1882-1900 -- The measure of uncertainty : the Institut general psychologique, 1900-1908 -- The master and his double : Charles Richet and the literary unconscious -- In the wake of war : the Institut metapsychique international -- The limits of method : the question of good faith and the decline of psychical research -- Conclusion : indeterminacy and the discourse of tables.
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ISBN 9780252090059
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780252035647
Additional Edition:
Print version Unruly Spirits : The Science of Psychic Phenomena in Modern France
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English
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