Investigating the Supernatural: From Spiritism and Occultism by Sofie Lachapelle

By Sofie Lachapelle

Séances have been wildly renowned in France among 1850 and 1930, while individuals of most of the people and students alike became to the wondrous as a method of figuring out and explaining the realm. Sofie Lachapelle explores how 5 distinctive teams tried to exploit and legitimize séances: spiritists, who attempted to create a brand new technology; desirous about the non secular realm and the afterlife; occultists, who was hoping to attach old revelations with modern technological know-how; physicians, psychiatrists, and psychologists, who constructed a pathology of supernatural reports; psychical researchers, who drew at the unexplained reviews of the general public to create a brand new box of analysis; and metapsychists, who tried to boost a brand new technology of yet-to-be understood ordinary forces.

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