Interesting talk in London in November ...
Hi All,
Interesting talk by Dr Heather Wolffram (University of Queensland) at 5:30 pm on 9 Nov with the above title at 183 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. Further details below and full details at:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed/library/PandP09Nov09
Cheers,
Chris
09 November 2009
Dr Heather Wolffram (Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland, Australia)
Parapsychology on the Couch: The Psychology of Occult Belief in Germany, c1880-1939
This paper traces the attempts of academic psychologists and critical occultists (those who sought natural explanations for occult
phenomena) in Germany during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to construct a psychology of occult belief. While these scholars claimed that the purpose of this new sub-discipline was to help evaluate the work of occult researchers, the speaker will maintain that the emergence of a psychology of occult belief in Germany served primarily to pathologise parapsychology and its practitioners. Not to be outdone, however, parapsychologists, as the speaker will show, argued that their adversaries suffered from a morbid inability to accept the reality of the paranormal. Using evidence derived from archival sources as well as a range of contemporary published materials, the speaker will argue that the inability of either party to resolve (on an experimental or phenomenological basis) the dispute over who should be allowed to mould the public's understanding of the occult, ultimately led them to transform their opponents into objects of psychological enquiry.
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