Mesmer's

It is important to note, however, that Schelling, though obviously familiar with Mesmer's concept of the vital fluid, uses the term "magnetische Schlaf" in this section

Notes on ''The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815)' 2008

But then, this could surely be extended to Mesmer's own notion of crisis.

'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008

Mesmer's crisis is in effect a pharmakon, the unleashing of a certain violence and disorder in the psyche — hence the revolutionary pathogens with which his work was associated.

'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008

Schelling does not use the word "crisis" in the 1813 Ages, focusing instead on the so-called "gentler crisis" of magnetic sleep promoted by Mesmer's follower the Marquis de Puységur.

'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008

In fact part of Mesmer's hesitation about Puységur's induced somnambulism was that it might really be an intensification of mental disorders such as madness, epilepsy and convulsions (Crabtree 65).

'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008

Reich's followers, such as Charles R. Kelley, went to the extent of claiming orgone to be the creative substratum in all of nature, and compared it to Mesmer's animal magnetism, the Odic force of Carl Reichenbach and Henri Bergson's Élan vital.

Archive 2008-09-01 2008

One of Mesmer's students, Armand Puysegur, later transformed Mesmer's ideas into what we now know as hypnotism.

Imagination James Killus 2007

The Commissioners concluded that Mesmer's animal magnetism had no existence and that imagination, imitation, and touch were the true causes of the observed effects in the Mesmeric salon.

Another Essay Starting from the Same Place James Killus 2007

The Commissioners concluded that Mesmer's animal magnetism had no existence and that imagination, imitation, and touch were the true causes of the observed effects in the Mesmeric salon.

Imagination James Killus 2007

It didn't occur to anybody for several centuries that it was more likely the glass powder and iron filings which Mesmer's patients bathed in which might have been responsible for the ill effects.

The Glass Harmonica: Stairway to Madness 2005