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One of the foundational texts of interpersonal psychoanalysis, Prelogical Experience (1959) is a pioneering attempt to elaborate an interpersonal theory of personality that encompasses the nonpropositional, nonverbal dimension of human experience. Prelogical processes, the authors hold, cannot be consigned to infancy; rather they shape experience throughout life and are especially salient in relation to dreams, emotion, perception, and the arts. Of special note is Tauber and Green's elaboration of the clinical situation that grows out of an appreciation of prelogical experie.

Occultism.

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Written by folklorist Andrew Lang, this work examines the ambivalent relationship the living have attempted to forge with the dead throughout history. Nicknamed 'the Wizard of St Andrews', this polymath also worked as an anthropologist, classicist, historian, poet, mythologist, essayist & journalist, producing over 100 publications in his lifetime. Largely ignored by scholarship, this book suggests expanding the study of folklore to include contemporary narratives of supernatural events. Taking its title from the legends of the notorious Cock Lane ghost, the work considers the survival of ancient beliefs such as hauntings, clairvoyance, & other phenomena believed to transcend the laws of nature, & how such beliefs have persisted through great social upheaval & change.

Parapsychology --- Occultism

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Les révélations du Comte de Gabalis stupéfient le narrateur : tout ce qu’on rapportait à l’action des démons n’est, en réalité, que l’effet innocent d’esprits élémentaires, qui peuplent les quatre éléments. Étrange idée de Paracelse, reprise dans un registre parodique savoureux. Marquant la véritable entrée de Paracelse dans la littérature française, cet ouvrage est résolument dirigé contre les « sciences secrètes » au nom du sens commun. Il s’inscrit ainsi dans le processus de déclin progressif de la magie, de l’astrologie et de l’alchimie en France à partir du troisième tiers du XVIIe siècle. Son optique est aussi de nature résolument libertine : l’ouvrage vise en effet à ruiner la croyance à l’action du Démon. C’était déjà le programme de l’Apologie des grands hommes accusez de magie de Gabriel Naudé. Mais l’abbé de Villars va employer pour cela une arme plus terrible que l’érudition du bibliothécaire de Mazarin : il recourt au dialogue d’idées tel qu’il a été mis au point par Pascal dans Les Provinciales. Muni de cet art de l’ironie dévastatrice, Montfaucon de Villars, porté par l’essor du cartésianisme, dispose de tous les moyens nécessaires pour transformer la figure théologique du Démon en objet de fantaisie littéraire, parvenant ainsi à peupler la littérature de sylphes, de salamandres, d’ondines et de gnomes tout inoffensifs et à y promouvoir l’image d’un démon impuissant à perpétrer le mal.

French literature --- Demonology. --- Occultism

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Henry Christmas (1811-68) was a scholar of very wide interests and a fellow of both the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries. He wrote extensively about many subjects including philosophy, religion, literature, mythology and numismatics. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, and soon afterwards became the librarian and secretary of Sion College. Between 1840 and 1860 he edited a number of books and journals, including The Literary Gazette. He also translated Calmet's Phantom World, and Wieland's Republic of Fools into English. Published in 1849, this two-volume set examines how popular mythology kept alive beliefs about the occult, alchemy and the paranormal. In Volume 1, the author looks at astrology, dream-interpretation, magic and fantastical automata. He shows how some of these beliefs were so entrenched in tradition and culture that they came to be regarded almost as fact, and so had a detrimental influence on rational thought.

Occultism --- Body, Mind & Spirit

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We have all experienced the futility of trying to change a strong conviction, especially if the convinced person has some investment in his belief. We are familiar with the variety of ingenious defenses with which people protect their convictions, managing to keep them unscathed through the most devastating attacks. But man's resourcefulness goes beyond simply protecting a belief. Suppose an individual believes something with his whole heart; suppose further that he has a commitment to this belief, that he has taken irrevocable actions because of it; finally, suppose that he is presented with evidence, unequivocal and undeniable evidence, that his belief is wrong: what will happen? The individual will frequently emerge, not only unshaken, but even more convinced of the truth of his beliefs than ever before. Indeed, he may even show a new fervor about convincing and converting other people to his view. How and why does such a response to contradictory evidence come about? This is the question on which this book focuses. We hope that, by the end of the volume, we will have provided an adequate answer to the question, an answer documented by data. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved).

Prophecies (Occultism) --- Prophecy.