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Le magnétisme animal en mouvement. Reconfigurations et circulations, 1776-1848

Colloque international
Université de Fribourg, 20-21 octobre 2022

Un colloque international sur le magnétisme animal aura lieu les 20 et 21 octobre 2022 à l’Université de Fribourg (Suisse). Les interventions porteront sur les usages et enjeux thérapeutiques mais également politiques du magnétisme animal, sur ses réseaux et cercles de diffusion ou encore son influence sur la littérature (programme ci-dessous). Le colloque peut également se suivre en visioconférence sur MS Teams.

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Mesmerism

The circulation of animal magnetism theories and practices in the 18th and 19th centuries in Europe, and later worldwide, is both a significant phenomenon and one that has so far been little studied in its complexity.

The theory of the universal fluid and the magnetic therapies developed by Franz Anton Mesmer in Vienna became popular in Paris, where he settled in late 1778. Around 1784, they spread not only throughout France, but also to its colonies, to Malta with the network of Societies of Harmony, and all over Europe following the trajectories of learned, Masonic, mystical and esoteric societies, and of artistic and musical creation. The texts of the disputes that they generated were read, translated, commented on and re-elaborated throughout Europe and beyond.

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