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Journal du Magnetisme |
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From Pat Deveney's database:
Journal du Magnetisme.
Other titles: Journal du Magnetisme, du Massage et de la Psychologie
1845--1861 Semimonthly
Paris, France. Language: French. Publisher: A. Rene. Editor: Redige par une Societe de magnetiseurs et medecins, sous la direction de M. le Baron Dupotet de Sennevoy.
Succeeds: Journal de l’Ame (Geneva)? Succeeded by: Chaîne Magnetique; Revue de Magnetisme (1878)-->Journal du Magnetisme (1879)
Corporate author: Organe de la Societe magnetique de France / Organe de la Societe psychique internationale
1/1, 1845-1861 48-64 pp. a month. From internal evidence the journal appears to have been published in semimonthly fascicles. Baron Jules Denis Du Potet (or Dupotet) de Sennevoy (1796-1881) founded the journal and edited the first series (until 1861). The journal was revived in 1878 by by Hector Durville as Revue Magnetique and the name changed the next year to the original, and also continued as La Chaine Magnetique by Dupotet himself. Dupotet was extraordinarily important in the development of occultism in the nineteenth century both through this journal and through his La Magie Devoilee, ou Principes de Science Occulte (1852) which forcefully identified the principles active in mesmerism with those employed in traditional magic. The journal was riven in its later years by the fight between those who insisted on the magnetic "fluid" as the cause of the then-current phenomena, and those who, at least, wanted to include the spirits of the dead as movers. The Crabtree 518.
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| Other Sources: | ZDB: Freiburg Inst Grenzgeb Psychol.; BL; Harvard University |
| Issues: | Journal du Magnetisme V1-2 1845-1846 |
| Journal du Magnetisme V3 1846 |
| Journal du Magnetisme V4 1847 |
| Journal du Magnetisme V5 1847 |
| Journal du Magnetisme V6 1848 |
| Journal du Magnetisme V7 1848 |
| Journal du Magnetisme V8 1849 |
| Journal du Magnetisme V9 1850 |
| Journal du Magnetisme V10 1851 |
| Journal du Magnetisme V11 1852 |
| Journal du Magnetisme V12 1853 |
| Journal du Magnetisme V13 1854 |
| Journal du Magnetisme V14 1855 |
| Journal du Magnetisme V15 1856 |
| Journal du Magnetisme V16 1857 |
| Journal du Magnetisme V17 1858 |
| Journal du Magnetisme V18 1859 |
| Journal du Magnetisme V19 1860 |
| Journal du Magnetisme V20 1861 |
| Claude-Generated Themes:
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Read across 1845–1861, the Journal du Magnétisme is a leading French organ of animal magnetism, from the classical Continental tradition of the mesmeric fluid. Its content is the core French mesmerism: the magnetic fluid and its healing use, magnetic somnambulism and lucidity, and clairvoyance — the science of the invisible agent that the magnetizer directs. It represents the mature French mesmeric movement, the tradition running directly from Mesmer through the nineteenth-century French magnetizers.
Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
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| Topics: | Mesmerism and Animal Magnetism |