"Dreaming While Awake": The Evolution of the Concept of Hallucination in the Nineteenth Century
This paper will show that the rationalist theory of "spectral illusions" which discounted the objective reality of ghost-seeing, was challenged during the rise of the spiritualist faith, which drew a huge amount of attention from the scientific and artistic community to the psychogenesis o...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Edinburgh
2006-08-01
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| Series: | Forum |
| Online Access: | http://www.forumjournal.org/article/view/564 |