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

"Occult Subjects: From Mesmer to Psychoanalysis" Featuring Jodey Castricano Slought Foundation | Saturday, April 03, 2004; 1:30 - 4:30 pm Free admission (Reservation not required) Organized by Aaron Levy, Lenore Malen Mesmer Syposium Series

Project Website (with 29 min. multimedia recording): http://slought.org/content/11219/ 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. Internal Links: http://www.thenewsociety.org/ This program is made possible in part through the generous sponsorship or support of The Wagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia