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In characterizing psychical research as something other than a mere echo of popular spirituality or an anomaly among the sciences, Brower argues that the questions surrounding mediums served to sustain the scientific project by forestalling the establishment of a closed and complete system of knowledge. By acknowledging persistent doubt about the intentions of its participants, psychical research would result in the realization of a subjectivity that was essentially indeterminate and would thus clear the way for the French reception of psychoanalysis and the Freudian unconscious and its more comprehensive account of subjective uncertainty.
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Unruly Spirits, M. Brady Brower
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- 2010
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- Title
- Unruly Spirits
- Subtitle
- The Science of Psychic Phenomena in modern France
- Language
- English
- Authors
- M. Brady Brower
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Released
- 2010
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0252077512
- ISBN13
- 9780252077517
- Series
- Rating
- 3.5 out of 5
- Description
- In characterizing psychical research as something other than a mere echo of popular spirituality or an anomaly among the sciences, Brower argues that the questions surrounding mediums served to sustain the scientific project by forestalling the establishment of a closed and complete system of knowledge. By acknowledging persistent doubt about the intentions of its participants, psychical research would result in the realization of a subjectivity that was essentially indeterminate and would thus clear the way for the French reception of psychoanalysis and the Freudian unconscious and its more comprehensive account of subjective uncertainty.