Book ID: CBB256909263

«Contremisce Satana». Storia di un esorcismo nella Francia del XIX secolo (2021)

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Grossi, Roberta Vittoria (Author)


Carocci Editore


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 216 pp.
Language: Italian

In pieno positivismo fa la sua ricomparsa il diavolo, un dispositivo complesso in grado di riattivare impulsi in ambito sociale che la secolarizzazione e la scienza sembravano aver posto al riparo da superstizioni e credenze. Désirée Lejeune, indemoniata, giungeva a Parigi negli anni in cui Jean-Martin Charcot consacrava i suoi studi all’isteria. Non si incontrarono. Il suo esorcista e direttore di coscienza, del tutto assorbito nel ruolo che ricopre e che abbraccia come una missione contro le nuove teorie mediche sull’isteria, rinomina l’intera esperienza della donna fissandola nel personaggio della posseduta. La vicenda, esaminata nel volume, rappresenta un osservatorio peculiare da cui indagare il processo di naturalizzazione e de-moralizzazione della malattia e la conseguente ridefinizione delle prerogative della scienza e della religione. [Abstract translated by Google Translate: This is the abstract in English… In France, in the midst of the positivistic period, the devil made its reappearance: a complex device capable of reactivating impulses in the social sphere that secularization and science seemed to have sheltered from superstitions and beliefs. Désirée Lejeune, possessed by demons, arrived in Paris when Jean-Martin Charcot was consecrating his studies to hysteria. They did not meet. Désirée's exorcist, completely absorbed in the role he embraced as a mission against the new medical theories on hysteria, renamed the entire experience of the woman by fixing her in the character of the possessed. The story, which is examined in this book, represents a peculiar observatory from which investigating the process of naturalization and de-moralization of the disease and the consequent redefinition of the prerogatives of science and religion.]

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Authors & Contributors
Musumeci, Emilia
Wilson, Matthew
Runco, Maria Innocenza
Grossi, Roberta Vittoria
Arnaud, Sabine
Westerink, Herman
Concepts
Psychiatry
Hysteria
Medicine
Science and society
Mental disorders and diseases
Neurology
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
Modern
18th century
17th century
Places
France
Americas
Italy
Germany
Europe
Paris (France)
Institutions
Salpêtrière, Paris
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
Harvard University
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
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