Riding on the wave of the neo-vitalist reaction to mechanism, a large group of scientists embraced the psychical research that had emerged in England – not to be confused with spiritualism – because their aim was to study the spirit-phenomena with scientific tools and methods. In addition to French psychologists and psychiatrists, this group of psychical researchers also included German (Driesch and Schrenck-Notzing), Italian (Lombroso and Morselli) and American (James) scholars. Contributions were also made by poets, writers and musicologists who were attracted to the occult. Meanwhile, the fusion of different types of knowledge gave rise to investigations into the growing "spectacularization" of the paranormal, which today is studied by experts in communication theories.
PHYSICIANS AND SÉANCES ON THE ROAD TOWARDS THE SPECTACULARIZATION OF SPIRITUALISM
Germana Pareti
2019-01-01
Abstract
Riding on the wave of the neo-vitalist reaction to mechanism, a large group of scientists embraced the psychical research that had emerged in England – not to be confused with spiritualism – because their aim was to study the spirit-phenomena with scientific tools and methods. In addition to French psychologists and psychiatrists, this group of psychical researchers also included German (Driesch and Schrenck-Notzing), Italian (Lombroso and Morselli) and American (James) scholars. Contributions were also made by poets, writers and musicologists who were attracted to the occult. Meanwhile, the fusion of different types of knowledge gave rise to investigations into the growing "spectacularization" of the paranormal, which today is studied by experts in communication theories.
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