Human Personality 2 Volume Set

And its Survival of Bodily Death
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-108-02737-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Medienkombination, Englisch, 1434 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 2133 g

Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge

Frederic William Henry Myers (1843–1901) was a classical scholar who in mid-career turned to the investigation of psychic phenomena. After studying, and later teaching, Classics at Trinity College, Cambridge he resigned his lectureship in 1869, became an inspector of schools, and campaigned for women's higher education. With the encouragement of former colleagues he began a scientific investigation of spiritualism and related phenomena, and in 1882 he helped to found the Society for Psychical Research. This two-volume work, first published posthumously in 1903, contains the fullest statement of Myers' influential theory of the 'subliminal self', which he developed by combining his research into psychic phenomena with his in-depth reading about the latest advances in psychology and related fields. His deeply intellectual approach is evident throughout the book, which analyses a huge amount of interesting data on topics including dreams, trances, sensory automation and bodily possession.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Myers, Frederic William Henry

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Parapsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Okkultismus und andere religiöse Praktiken

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Volume 1: Preface; Editorial note; Glossary; Explanation of plan of arrangement and system of references; Syllabuses; 1. Introduction; 2. Disintegrations of personality; 3. Genius; 4. Sleep; 5. Hypnotism; 6. Sensory automatism; Appendices. Volume 2: Syllabuses; 7. Phantasms of the dead; 8. Motor automatism; 9. Trance, possession, and ecstasy; 10. Epilogue; Appendices; Index.