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dc.contributor.authorHajek, Kimen
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-31T10:34:00Z-
dc.date.issued2017-
dc.identifier.citationNotes and Records: the Royal Society journal of the history of science, 71(2), p. 125-139en
dc.identifier.issn1743-0178en
dc.identifier.issn0035-9149en
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dc.description.abstractIn '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.languageenen
dc.publisherThe Royal Society Publishingen
dc.relation.ispartofNotes and Records: the Royal Society journal of the history of scienceen
dc.title'A Portion of Truth': Demarcating the Boundaries of Scientific Hypnotism in Late Nineteenth-Century Franceen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1098/rsnr.2017.0010en
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dc.subject.keywordsLiterature in Frenchen
dc.subject.keywordsHistory and Philosophy of Science (incl. Non-historical Philosophy of Science)en
local.contributor.firstnameKimen
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local.subject.for2008200511 Literature in Frenchen
local.subject.seo2008970121 Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeologyen
local.subject.seo2008970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Cultureen
local.subject.seo2008950504 Understanding Europe's Pasten
local.profile.schoolSchool of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciencesen
local.profile.emailkhajek@une.edu.auen
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local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
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local.format.startpage125en
local.format.endpage139en
local.peerreviewedYesen
local.identifier.volume71en
local.identifier.issue2en
local.title.subtitleDemarcating the Boundaries of Scientific Hypnotism in Late Nineteenth-Century Franceen
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local.contributor.lastnameHajeken
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local.identifier.handlehttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/21159en
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local.title.maintitle'A Portion of Truth'en
local.output.categorydescriptionC1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journalen
local.search.authorHajek, Kimen
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local.year.published2017en
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local.fileurl.closedpublishedhttps://rune.une.edu.au/web/retrieve/2a8e422a-2deb-4b8e-938c-2ff3aa75c285en
local.subject.for2020500317 Philosophy of science (excl. history and philosophy of specific fields)en
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local.subject.seo2020130704 Understanding Europe’s pasten
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