Pub Date : 2019-04-10DOI: 10.5325/PRETERNATURE.8.1.0090
Tereza Bambušková
abstract:This article demonstrates how two selected Victorian ghost stories address the problem of the unreliability and subjectivity of perception through the characters' experiences with the supernatural or the inexplicable. I focus on how Victorian ghost stories—particularly Margaret Oliphant's "The Open Door" and Sheridan Le Fanu's "The Account of Some Disturbances in Aungier Street"—induce hesitation both in characters and in the reader. This "moment of hesitation" is not only central to Todorov's definition of the fantastic but also highly relevant to the anxieties about vision and knowledge that existed in Victorian society. I argue that the stories use the theories and assumptions about vision that were current in the Victorian age to subvert the idea that sight is an objective conduit to the truth, and thus the stories both utilize a source of fear that was already present in Victorian society and offer a relevant social commentary.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.5325/preternature.8.1.0151
Harms
{"title":"Review","authors":"Harms","doi":"10.5325/preternature.8.1.0151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/preternature.8.1.0151","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41216,"journal":{"name":"Preternature-Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85428819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.5325/preternature.8.1.0155
McGill
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Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.5325/preternature.8.2.0283
Bailey
{"title":"Review","authors":"Bailey","doi":"10.5325/preternature.8.2.0283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/preternature.8.2.0283","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41216,"journal":{"name":"Preternature-Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74133080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.5325/preternature.8.2.0286
Millar
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Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.5325/preternature.8.2.0289
Lindquist
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Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.5325/preternature.8.1.0148
Elmes
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Pub Date : 2018-08-31DOI: 10.5325/PRETERNATURE.7.2.0239
K. Hess
abstract:Julian Leopold Ochorowicz (1850–1917) was a psychologist, philosopher, and inventor, as well as a photographer, journalist, and poet. As a positivist, he postulated strict research methods in science and treated psychology as a field of study to which the tools of natural sciences can be applied. Ochorowicz's interest in occult phenomena, which for him were not supernatural but just unexplained and misinterpreted qualities of the human body and mind, in time grew to be the most intriguing topic of his work. Ochorowicz wanted to experimentally examine medium-related and other occult phenomena, which he associated with hypnotic states. He used the term "ideoplasty" for a class of phenomena that he deemed theoretically possible, whereby psychic energy is transformed into material excretions. Ideoplasty was a part of his wider conception of transformations of energy (e.g., of power into motion), which combined his theoretical attitude in psychology and his technical inventions.
朱利安·利奥波德·奥乔洛维茨(Julian Leopold Ochorowicz, 1850-1917)是一位心理学家、哲学家、发明家，同时也是一位摄影师、记者和诗人。作为一名实证主义者，他在科学中提出了严格的研究方法，并将心理学视为一个可以应用自然科学工具的研究领域。奥克罗维茨对神秘现象的兴趣，对他来说不是超自然的，只是无法解释和误解人类身体和心灵的特质，逐渐成为他作品中最有趣的话题。Ochorowicz想通过实验来研究与媒介相关的和其他神秘现象，他将这些现象与催眠状态联系起来。他将“意识形态成型”一词用于他认为理论上可能的一类现象，即精神能量转化为物质排泄。意识形态成形术是他关于能量转化(例如，将能量转化为运动)的更广泛概念的一部分，它结合了他在心理学上的理论态度和他的技术发明。
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Pub Date : 2018-08-31DOI: 10.5325/PRETERNATURE.7.2.0182
C. Wells
abstract:Whereas early modern monstrosity generally has enjoyed in-depth historical investigation, the presence of so-called monsters at the European royal courts has been somewhat overlooked. By using a severity continuum of deformity and a subcontinuum of emancipation as a framework, this article addresses three specific questions regarding court monstrosity: Why did such individuals reside at court? What role did they have within the court? How were they perceived and treated by other courtiers? The article will first address those who belonged at the less severe end of the severity continuum but whose relatively minor abnormalities nevertheless rendered them wondrous—courtly dwarfs and giants. This is followed by an examination of two of the more unusual types of deformities belonging to the more severe end of the continuum—people with hirsutism and conjoined twins.
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Pub Date : 2018-08-31DOI: 10.5325/PRETERNATURE.7.2.0133
Mark Roblee
abstract:Drawing from cultic literature and iconography, this article examines the use of encirclement and circular imagery in ancient Egypt—ritual circumambulation, circular knots and jewelry, painted papyri, encircling utterances, and especially the apotropaic serpentine figure Mehen, who prefigured the ouroboros in Byzantine, Arabic, Jewish, and early modern European thought. Encirclement and circular imagery were performative in the ancient Egyptian context, functioning on a personal, psychological level as much as a shared, social level. Performing circles was an inner ritual or imaginative technology of self-transformation for the ancient Egyptian ritual practitioner and audience alike.
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