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"Occult Subjects: From Mesmer to Psychoanalysis"

Jodey Castricano

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Event Date: Saturday, April 03, 2004
Location: Slought Foundation
Mesmer Syposium Series | Organized by Aaron Levy, Lenore Malen

<i>A key to physic, and the occult sciences</i>, by Ebenezer Sibly; London, 1795.  Courtesy Bakken Library.

Slought Foundation, a non-profit organization rethinking contemporary art, presents "Animal Magnetism and After: A Symposium." This one-day event on Saturday April 3rd, 2004, from 1:30 pm-4:30 pm, will address the history of Mesmerism in l8th, l9th, and 20th-century literature, political and social philosophy, medicine, and dynamic psychotherapy.


Jodey Castricano is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of Cultural Studies who teaches in the English and Film Studies Department at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada. She is the author of *Cryptomimesis: The Gothic and Jacques Derrida's Ghost Writing (McGill-Queen's 2001) as well as other articles on the Gothic, deconstruction, and psychoanalysis. Currently, she is working on a book-length study entitled *Occult Subjects: Literature, Film, and Psychoanalysis.

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