Hél?ne Smith
Occultism and the Discovery of the Unconscious
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- Kiadó OUP USA
- Megjelenés dátuma 2023. augusztus 18.
- ISBN 9780197680025
- Kötéstípus Puhakötés
- Terjedelem184 oldal
- Méret 157x236x11 mm
- Súly 277 g
- Nyelv angol
- Illusztrációk 22 b/w illustrations 513
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Rövid leírás:
This book retraces the story of spiritual medium Hél?ne Smith, a woman who came to inspire some of the greatest scientists and artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Bringing to light archival documents, correspondences, and publications on the medium, author Claudie Massicotte illuminates Smith's important contributions to evolving definitions of the subject during a period viewed by many as one of disenchantment. In retracing the medium's story, she explores the role of gender and occultism in modern understandings of the embodied self and its relation to the spiritual.
TöbbHosszú leírás:
In 1896, a young Genevan medium named Hél?ne Smith perceived in trance the following words from a Martian inhabitant: "michma michtmon mimini thouainenm mimatchineg." Those attending her séance dutifully transcribed these words and the event marked the beginning of a series of occult experiences that transported her to the red planet. In her state of trance, Smith came to produce foreign conversations, a new alphabet, and paintings of the Martian surroundings that captured the popular and scientific imagination of Geneva. Alongside her Martian travels, she also retrieved memories of her past lives as a fifteenth-century "Hindoo" princess and as Queen Marie Antoinette.
Today, Smith's séances may appear to be nothing more than eccentric practices at the margins of modernity. As author Claudie Massicotte argues, however, the medium came to embody the extreme possibilities of a new form of subjectivity, with her séances becoming important loci for pioneering authors' discoveries in psychology, linguistics, and the arts. Through analyses of archival documents, correspondences, and publications on the medium, Massicotte sheds light on the role of women in the construction of turn-of-the-century psychological discourses, showing how Smith challenged traditional representations of female patients as powerless victims and passive objects of powerful doctors. She shows how the medium became the site of conflicting theories about subjectivity--specifically one's relationship to embodiment, desire, language, art, and madness--while unleashing a radical form of creativity that troubled existing paradigms of modern sciences. Massicotte skillfully retraces the story of this prolific figure and the authors, scientists, and artists she inspired in order to bring to light a forgotten chapter in modern intellectual history.
This book is a rich, sensitive, and thought-provoking work that sheds new light on the role of female mediums and patients in the construction of psychological discourses. As Massicotte points out, Hél?ne Smith was not only a gifted medium, but also an active and creative contributor to contemporary scientific theories on the unconscious. This is an accurate and engaging account of the story of this extraordinary woman, her influence on scientists and artists, and her indispensable role in the history of psychology.
Tartalomjegyzék:
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Hél?ne, or the Ghosts of Depth Psychology
Chapter 1. Bodies
Ventriloquizing Agency: Magic Dolls and Spiritualist Authorship
Chapter 2. Desire
Bearing, Authoring, and the Symbolizations of Excess in Psychoanalysis
Chapter 3. Languages
Extra-Planetary Signs and the Haunted Origins of Modern Linguistics
Chapter 4. Creativity
The Muse of Surrealism: Automatism and the Creative Unconscious
Conclusion: The Enchanted Unconscious
Bibliography
Index
