Unruly Spirits
The Science of Psychic Phenomena in Modern France
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- Paperback
232 pages
- Release Date
14 October 2010
Summary
Unruly Spirits connects the study of sÉances, telepathy, telekinesis, materializations, and other parapsychic phenomena in France during the age of Sigmund Freud to an epistemological crisis that would eventually yield the French adoption of psychoanalysis. Skillfully navigating experiments conducted by nineteenth-century French psychical researchers and the wide-ranging debates that surrounded their work, M. Brady Brower situates the institutional development of psychical research at the int…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780252077517 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0252077512 |
| Author: | M. Brady Brower |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press |
| Imprint: | University of Illinois Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Release Date: | 14 October 2010 |
| Weight: | 367g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 18mm |
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“M. Brady Brower clearly demonstrates the importance of the French strain of psychical research and shows it to be a crucial and unjustly neglected episode in the story of modern psychology. What he has uncovered should provoke a searching revision of the standard account of the resistance psychoanalysis faced in fin-de-siecle and interwar France.” John Warne Monroe, author of Laboratories of Faith: Mesmerism, Spiritism, and Occultism in Modern France
About The Author
M. Brady Brower
M. Brady Brower is an assistant professor of history at Weber State University.
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