Unruly Spirits: The Science of Psychic Phenomena in Modern France

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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Psychical Research and French Science xv 1. From Religious Enthusiasm to Reluctant Science: Psychical Research, 1848–1882 1 2. The Development of Psychical Research in France, 1882–1900 27 3. The Measure of Uncertainty: The Institut Général Psychologique, 1900–1908 45 4. The Master and His Double: Charles Richet and the Literary Unconscious 75 5. In the Wake of War: The Institut Métapsychique International 93 6. The Limits of Method: The Question of Good Faith and the Decline of Psychical Research 112 Conclusion: Indeterminacy and the Discourse of Tables 143 Notes 149 Bibliography 177 Index 195 ...