mesmerism

How To Use mesmerism In A Sentence

• The third version, unlike the more idealistic first and second vesions, intoroduces terms such as the unconscious, inhibition, and crisis, contains a crucial section on mesmerism, and is structured around the trauma of onto - and phylogenesis. Article Abstracts
• It is hideous to my imagination, especially what is called phrenological mesmerism. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)
• There is, as it happens, strong supporting evidence for the hypothesis that the whole episode is an example of what the practitioners of mesmerism called ‘mental travelling’.
• These modernist Manhattanites are probably most closely associated with the neo-classical composer and his macro-minimalist mesmerism.
• I say that these - which are the laws of mesmerism in its general features - it would be supererogation to demonstrate; nor shall I inflict upon my readers so needless a demonstration to-day.
• Long, however, before mesmerism was heard of, medical history attests examples in which patients who baffled the skill of the ablest physicians have fixed their fancies on some remedy that physicians would call inoperative for good or for harm, and have recovered by the remedies thus singularly self-suggested. A Strange Story — Complete
• For instance, there is an entire chapter on mesmerism, but hardly a paragraph on steel.
• As Tatar has observed, it was no accident, given the roots of psychoanalysis in mesmerism and hypnosis, that Freud should so often have had recourse to the vocabulary of hydraulics and electromagnetism in formulating his metapsychology (43-44). Re-collecting Spontaneous Overflows
• Just as this ill-fated man appeared at the culminating point of his professional fortunes, he had the imprudence to proclaim himself not only an enthusiastic advocate of mesmerism as a curative process, but an ardent believer of the reality of somnambular clairvoyance as an invaluable gift of certain privileged organizations. A Strange Story — Complete
• Another psychologist, E.M. Thornton, extends the analogy between hypnotism, mesmerism, and exorcism.