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Occult Subjects: From Mesmer to Psychoanalysis

Jodey Castricano

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Saturday, April 03, 2004
Slought Foundation

<i>A key to physic, and the occult sciences</i>, by Ebenezer Sibly; London, 1795.  Courtesy Bakken Library.

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Slought Foundation, a non-profit organization rethinking contemporary art, presents "Animal Magnetism and After: A Symposium." This one-day event on Saturday April 3rd, 2004, from 1:30 pm-4:30 pm, will address the history of Mesmerism in l8th, l9th, and 20th-century literature, political and social philosophy, medicine, and dynamic psychotherapy.


Jodey Castricano is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of Cultural Studies who teaches in the English and Film Studies Department at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada. She is the author of *Cryptomimesis: The Gothic and Jacques Derrida's Ghost Writing (McGill-Queen's 2001) as well as other articles on the Gothic, deconstruction, and psychoanalysis. Currently, she is working on a book-length study entitled *Occult Subjects: Literature, Film, and Psychoanalysis.

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http://www.thenewsociety.org/

This program was made possible in part through the generous sponsorship of The Wagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia



Organized by Aaron Levy, Lenore Malen


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MLA Style: Jodey Castricano. "Occult Subjects: From Mesmer to Psychoanalysis." Slought Foundation Online Content. [03 April 2004; Accessed 8 February 2012]. <http://slought.org/content/11219/>.






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