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Periodical: Psyche (Paris)

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Psyche.
Revue Mensuelle d'Art de de Litterature.
1891—1892 Monthly, bimonthly (irregular)
Paris, France. Language: French. Editor: V.-E. Michelet, Augustin Chaboseau, "Papus" (Gerard Encausse).
1/1, November 1891-December 1892. 3 francs a year, 32 pp.

As the subtitle indicated, the journal was focused on art and literature, with the first issue carefully (and rather pretentiously) noting that it was not devoted to commercialism but rather to the service of an idea: "All art is of secondary importance that is not based on a philosophy"—a philosophy which the journal proceeded to provide, usually in poetic form. Massimo Marra notes of the journal: "A very ephemeral experience; the 'redacteur en chef' was the poet and occultist Victor-E Emile Michelet and the 'secretaire de la redaction' was Augustin Chaboseau (1868-1946) the co-founder of the Martinist order. The idea was evidently to collect and spread the Martinist point of view about arts and literature." Articles by V.-Emile Michelet, A. Chaboseau, Alber Jhouney, Papus, Paul Sedir, et al. On these and the era, see the notes under Initiation and Voile d'Isis. Dorbon 6495. Fonds Bricaud, Bibl. Mun.

Other Sources:Lyon; BNF.
Issues:Psyche V1 N1 Nov 1891
Psyche V1 N2 Dec 1891
Psyche V2 N1-7 Jan-Dec 1892
Claude-Generated Themes:   Psyché (Paris, 1891–1892) was a short-lived Symbolist review of art and literature, declaring itself purely literary and artistic and existing to serve an idea rather than to turn a profit. Its interest for this corpus is its editors: Victor-Émile Michelet, an occultist poet, and Augustin Chaboseau, a co-founder of the Martinist Order — figures of the fin-de-siècle occult revival whose esoteric orientation tinges the review's essays and its vocabulary of the occult, the kabbalah and initiation. Its 'esprit' is that of art and genius, not the séance room, which the salience panel over-reads as spiritualism. It sits at the edge of the taxonomy: a Symbolist literary review mapped only for the Western-esoteric current its editors carried into it.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Occult Science and Esoteric Philosophy