Article ID: CBB583736396

Théodore Flournoy on Synesthetic Personification (2017)

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In 1893, Théodore Flournoy published a landmark book on synesthesia — Des phénomènes de synopsie [Of Synoptic Phenomena]. The book presented a pioneering chapter on synesthetic personification, including numerous striking case examples, and it is frequently cited by twenty-first-century researchers as providing some of the earliest examples of the phenomenon. Flournoy employed a broad definition of personification — the representation of stimuli as concrete and specific individuals or inanimate objects. This definition encompassed a more extensive set of phenomena than the definition used by researchers today and was illustrated by cases that would fall outside of contemporary subtypes of synesthetic personification. Yet, Flournoy’s seminal work remains unavailable in English, and the extent of the phenomenon that he described has not been discussed in the contemporary literature. We provide an unabridged translation of Flournoy’s chapter “Des personnifications” [“Of Personifications”].

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Authors & Contributors
Nicolas, Serge
Chirimuuta, M.
Klee, Astrid
Nikolaevich, Nikolenko Vladimir
Hlade, Josef
Nikolaevich, Chairkin Ivan
Concepts
Neurosciences
Synesthesia
Psychology
Medicine
Psychiatry
Brain
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
21st century
18th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Russia
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