Scientific article
French

Quand la médecine nous prend par les sentiments: Le magnétiseur amoureux de Charles de Villers

Published inGesnerus, vol. 72, no. 1, p. 117-134
Publication date2015
Abstract

This article analyses the representation of affective phenomena brought into play in Charles de Villers' Le magnétiseur amoureux (1787) as it helps to better understand the historical transition from the Galenic conception of the passions of the soul to the cerebral interpretation of emotions. [...]

Keywords
  • History of emotions, feelings, love's passion, artificial somnambulism, vapors, hysteric affection, Charles de Villers
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MARTIN MORUNO, Dolorès. Quand la médecine nous prend par les sentiments: Le magnétiseur amoureux de Charles de Villers. In: Gesnerus, 2015, vol. 72, n° 1, p. 117–134.
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