Unruly Spirits: The Science of Psychic Phenomena in Modern France

by M. Brady Brower

Unruly Spirits connects the study of s?ances, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252077512
• ISBN13: 9780252077517
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"