AG 116AD Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Suggestion, Science-Fiction Fandom, Clairvoyance

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: AG - Agriculture
• Course: AG 116AD
• Professor: Birdnis

Document Summary

Psychology and psychical research in france around the end of the 19th century. Abstract: during the last third of the 19th century, the new" french psychology developed within the hypnotic context" opened up by charcot. In spite of their claims to the scientific nature of their hypnotic experiments, charcot and his followers were unable to avoid the miracles that had accompanied mesmerism, the forerunner of hypnosis. Keywords: hypnotism, magnetism, mental suggestion, metapsychicals, psychology and psychical research, subconscious. Introduction: french psychology emerged at the end of the 19th century and defined itself as scientific, metaphysics philosophical psychology, new psych pathological method" considered as experimental. In the late 1870s charcot rehabilitated" hypnotism by turning it into a method for studying hysteria: he considered hypnosis as an artificial neurosis" and, consequently, a nervous state allowing the symptoms of hysteria to be reproduced at will.