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MESMER (Franz Anton). Memoir on the discovery... - Lot 65 - Rossini
MESMER (Franz Anton). Memoir on the discovery of animal magnetism. Genève, Paris, Fr. Didot le jeune, 1779. In-12, marbled calf, spine grotesquely decorated, red parts, red edges (period binding).
First edition of the exposition of the doctrine of the natural acting principle, which exerts a mutual influence between celestial bodies, the earth and animate bodies: animal magnetism. Any illness can be explained by a blockage in the circulation of this cosmic fluid.
From induced somnambulism to hypnosis and psychoanalysis, the contemporary experience of dynamic psychiatry, the discovery of the unconscious and healing through the mind have their origins in the authoritative and clumsy intuitions of the precursor Mesmer (En français dans le texte, n°171).
Pleasant copy, spine rebound.
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