"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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Main Author: | Shane McCorristine |
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Format: | article |
Language: | EN |
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University of Edinburgh
2006
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Online Access: | https://doaj.org/article/78bae7401d4e41b6b224ecfb1a348f59 |
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