Unruly Spirits: The Science of Psychic Phenomena in Modern France

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Index Page numbers in italics indicate illustrations . Académie des Sciences, 1–3, 4–5, 6, 21, 22, 32–33, 77, 124 Académie Nationale de Médecine, 5, 6, 77 Aksakof, Alexander, 62, 151n40 American Society for Psychical Research, xviii American spiritualism, 7–10. See also Modern Spiritualism Ampère, André Marie, 33–38, 69 animal magnetism, xxii, 3–6, 21–26, 153n74; as “hypnosis,” 19, 21–22; spiritism v., 8; state opposition to, 20, 33, 34; as technique of seduction, 25. See also hypnotism ; somnambulism Les Annales des Sciences Psychiques, 38–39, 42, 84, 87, 100, 156–57n57 Arago, François, 1–2, 3, 32 Arcet, Jean d’, 4 Archives Générales de Médecine, 21 Arsonval, Jacques-Arsène d’, 59, 60–61, 68, 71–74, 159n12 asylum system, 18, 28, 39, 67 Auffinger, Madame, 25–26 automatic writing: explained, 2; Institut Gén éral Psychologique, 53, 57; Janet focus, 57; Richet interest, 153–54n83; as subjective phenomenon, 62, 137; in surrealism, 175nn84–85 automatism, 35–37, 45, 136–37, 139, 175n84 L’Automatisme psychologique (Janet), 32, 38, 46, 57 autonomous self, xxii Autour de la mort (Flammarion), 126 Azam, Eugène, 21–22, 153n75–76, 153n79 Babinski, Joseph, 137, 140, 174n71 De la baguette divinatoire du pendule dit explorateur et des tables tournantes (Chevreul), 32–38 Bailly, Jean Sylvain, 4 Balfour, Arthur, 46–47 Baraduc, Hippolyte, 48, 49, 65, 96 Barrès, Maurice, xxi Beaunis, Henri, 28, 40, 157n71 Benjamin, Walter, 17 Béraud, Marthe, 84–89, 129–30, 173n46. See also Carrière, Eva Bergson, Henri, xviii–xix, 48, 59, 162n78; Eusapia experiments participation, 67, 69; Janet relationship, 32; psychical research interest, xviii–xix, 28; on psychical research v. experimental science, xxv; Society for Psychical Research leadership, 47 Bernard, Claude, xxiii–xxiv, 30, 59, 77, 146 Bernheim, Hippolyte, 26, 47, 50, 158n73, 159–160n12, 160n16 Bert, Paul, xxi, 22 Berthelot, Marcelin, xxi, 30, 77 Bien-Boa, 84–92, 85, 167n70, 168n94 196 . index Binet, Alfred, 40, 51, 55, 56, 157n62, 162n78, 163n96 biomètre, 65 Bisson, Juliette, 117–21, 128–31 Bloch, Marc, xv Blondel, Charles, 138–39 Blondot, Réné, 61 Blumenberg, Hans, 14 Boirac, Émile, 63 Bois, Jules, 78 Bonnet, Marguerite, 175n84, 176n85 Bonnier, Gaston, 78 Bourdieu, Pierre, 14 Bourgeois, Léon, 57–59 Boutroux, Émile, 32 Bouvier, Eugène-Louis, 59 Braid, James, 21–22, 153n75, 153n79 Branly, Édouard, 59, 65, 70, 73–74, 117, 135, 164n107 Breton, André, 140, 175nn83–84, 176n85 Bricout, Joseph, 97, 171n2 Brissaud, Édouard, 59 Broca, Paul, 21 Brooks, John I., 41, 161n39 Brown, Richard, xix Buguet, Édouard Isadore, 19–20 Buisson, Ferdinand, 59 Bulletin de l’Institut Général Psychologique (Institut Psychique International), 48, 56, 59, 61, 159–60n12, 162n65 Buloz, Charles, 77 Cabanis, Pierre, 50 cabinet noir, 68, 121. See also mediums; séances Cahagnet, Alphonse, 7 Calmette, Émile, 108 Camescasse, Ernest, 24 Carrière, Eva, 113, 117–22, 118, 119, 121, 128–32, 173n46, 173n49. See also Béraud, Marthe; Eva C. experiments Carroy, Jacqueline (Carroy-Thirard), 31, 83, 164n7 “Cartesianism,” 136–37 Catalogue général de la librairie française depuis 1840, 13 Charcot, Jean-Martin: on Cousin’s introspection , 31; hypnosis research, 22–23, 153n79; hysteria, 80, 137; Janet relationship , 32; magnetism as hypnosis, 28; Richet relationship, 22; scientific legacy, 59; Société de Psychologie Physiologique, 42, 47, 157–58n72; spirituality as insanity, 23, 56 Chauvet, Stephan, 104 Chevreul, Michel Eugène, 15, 32–38, 144 clairvoyance, 5, 6, 73 Collège de France, 30, 32, 40, 42, 56, 59 Comte, Auguste, 29–30, 35, 51 Conan Doyle, Arthur, 47, 94–95, 131, 168n1 Congresses for Psychical Research, xviii, 78, 93, 149n6 Cook, Florence, 68 La Cooperation, 109 Cottin Angelique, 3 Courtier, Jules, 63, 64, 67–74, 127, 163n96 Cousin, Victor: gender and class biases of doctrine, 82–83; literary style, 79; philosophy curriculum, 29–30; positivism v., 29–30; self-consciousness and will, 29; “spiritualism,” xxii; See also eclectic spiritualism Croiset, Alfred, 79–80 Crookes, William, 46–47, 68, 124, 135–36 Cru, Jean Norton, 99, 169n15 cryptomnesia, 106, 137 Curie, Marie Skłodowska, 61, 63, 67, 117, 122–23 Curie, Pierre, 61, 63–64, 67, 68–69, 163n95 Dariex, Xavier, 26, 38, 42, 48, 49, 156–57n57 Das Dopple-Ich (Dessoir), 78 Dastre, Albert, 31–32 Daumier, Honoré, 3 Davis, Andrew Jackson, 7, 151n24 Delanne, Gabriel, 49, 85–86, 88, 89, 101, 102, 108, 116 Delaville, Camille, 24 Delpit, Albert, 81 “Démembrement de l’hystérie...