‘Il corpo incantato’. Medicine, Magic and Aesthetics of ‘unconscious cerebration’
The essay explores the notion of ‘unconscious cerebration’ elaborated by British physiologist William Benjamin Carpenter in the first half of the nineteenth century, foregrounding its hybrid genealogy and its afterlife in both science and magic, as well as its transnational impact on the arts and ps...
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UNICApress
2021-05-01
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| Online Access: | https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/4383 |