Spectres of the self thinking about ghosts and ghost-seeing in England, 1750-1920

Cover\r......Page 1
Spectres of the Self......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Illustrations......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Abbreviations......Page 12
Introduction......Page 13
Part I The dreams of the ghost-seers......Page 37
Ghosts reformed......Page 39
The phantasmagoric dislocation......Page 43
The case of Nicolai......Page 52
The spectral illusions model......Page 55
Hallucinations and illusions in French psychiatry......Page 64
A Christmas Carol and \'The Haunted Mind\'......Page 73
The dreams of the Geistersehers: Kant and Schopenhauer on ghost-seeing......Page 78
Hallucinations, spiritualism and pathology......Page 87
The clothes of ghosts......Page 102
Part II A science of the soul......Page 113
The Society for Psychical Research......Page 115
Ghost-hunting in the Society for Psychical Research......Page 126
The sociology of the psychical ghost story......Page 139
Phantasms of the living......Page 151
Criticisms of Phantasms of the Living......Page 174
Phantasms of the dead......Page 184
A science of the soul?......Page 194
The concept of hallucination in the Society for Psychical Research......Page 204
The \'Report on the Census of Hallucinations\'......Page 206
Dreaming while awake......Page 214
Some conclusions......Page 222
Epilogue: towards 1920......Page 230
Appendix......Page 241
Printed sources......Page 256
Index......Page 283