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dc.contributor.author | Hajek, Kim | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-31T10:34:00Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Notes and Records: the Royal Society journal of the history of science, 71(2), p. 125-139 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1743-0178 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0035-9149 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/21159 | - |
dc.description.abstract | In 'fin-de-siècle' France, hypnotism enjoyed an unprecedented level of medico-scientific legitimacy. Researchers studying hypnotism had nonetheless to manage relations between their new 'science' and its widely denigrated precursor, 'magnètisme animal', because too great a resemblance between the two could damage the reputation of 'scientific' hypnotism. They did so by engaging in the rhetorical activity of boundary-work. This paper analyses such demarcation strategies in major texts from the Salpêtrière and Nancy Schools - the rival groupings that dominated enquiry into hypnotism in the 1880s. Researchers from both Schools depicted 'magnètisme' as 'unscientific' by emphasizing the magnetizers' tendency to interpret phenomena in wondrous or supernatural terms. At the same time, they acknowledged and recuperated the 'portions of truth' hidden within the phantasmagoria of 'magnètisme'; these 'portions' function as positive facts in the texts on hypnotism, immutable markers of an underlying natural order that accounts for similarities between phenomena of 'magnètisme' and hypnotism. If this strategy allows for both continuities and discontinuities between the two fields, it also constrains the scope for theoretical speculation about hypnotism, as signalled, finally, by a reading of one fictional study of the question, Anatole France's 'Monsieur Pigeonneau'. | en |
dc.language | en | en |
dc.publisher | The Royal Society Publishing | en |
dc.relation.ispartof | Notes and Records: the Royal Society journal of the history of science | en |
dc.title | 'A Portion of Truth': Demarcating the Boundaries of Scientific Hypnotism in Late Nineteenth-Century France | en |
dc.type | Journal Article | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1098/rsnr.2017.0010 | en |
dcterms.accessRights | UNE Green | en |
dc.subject.keywords | Literature in French | en |
dc.subject.keywords | History and Philosophy of Science (incl. Non-historical Philosophy of Science) | en |
local.contributor.firstname | Kim | en |
local.subject.for2008 | 220206 History and Philosophy of Science (incl. Non-historical Philosophy of Science) | en |
local.subject.for2008 | 200511 Literature in French | en |
local.subject.seo2008 | 970121 Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology | en |
local.subject.seo2008 | 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture | en |
local.subject.seo2008 | 950504 Understanding Europe's Past | en |
local.profile.school | School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences | en |
local.profile.email | khajek@une.edu.au | en |
local.output.category | C1 | en |
local.record.place | au | en |
local.record.institution | University of New England | en |
local.identifier.epublicationsrecord | une-20170529-132753 | en |
local.publisher.place | United Kingdom | en |
local.format.startpage | 125 | en |
local.format.endpage | 139 | en |
local.peerreviewed | Yes | en |
local.identifier.volume | 71 | en |
local.identifier.issue | 2 | en |
local.title.subtitle | Demarcating the Boundaries of Scientific Hypnotism in Late Nineteenth-Century France | en |
local.access.fulltext | Yes | en |
local.contributor.lastname | Hajek | en |
dc.identifier.staff | une-id:khajek | en |
local.profile.role | author | en |
local.identifier.unepublicationid | une:21351 | en |
local.identifier.handle | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/21159 | en |
dc.identifier.academiclevel | Academic | en |
local.title.maintitle | 'A Portion of Truth' | en |
local.output.categorydescription | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal | en |
local.search.author | Hajek, Kim | en |
local.open.fileurl | https://rune.une.edu.au/web/retrieve/f4a09625-f57b-4e04-81ea-b385210ff07c | en |
local.uneassociation | Unknown | en |
local.identifier.wosid | 000401004300002 | en |
local.year.published | 2017 | en |
local.fileurl.open | https://rune.une.edu.au/web/retrieve/f4a09625-f57b-4e04-81ea-b385210ff07c | en |
local.fileurl.closedpublished | https://rune.une.edu.au/web/retrieve/2a8e422a-2deb-4b8e-938c-2ff3aa75c285 | en |
local.subject.for2020 | 500317 Philosophy of science (excl. history and philosophy of specific fields) | en |
local.subject.for2020 | 500204 History and philosophy of science | en |
local.subject.for2020 | 470516 Literature in French | en |
local.subject.seo2020 | 130704 Understanding Europe’s past | en |
local.subject.seo2020 | 280113 Expanding knowledge in history, heritage and archaeology | en |
dc.notification.token | 598739da-992a-4325-a077-6882fef5931d | en |
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