Neuroscience & Psychology

From India to the Planet Mars: A Case of Multiple Personality with Imaginary Languages

    Edited by
  • Sonu Shamdasani
    Preface by
  • C. G. Jung
    Afterword by
  • Mireille Cifali

Paperback

Price:
$65.00/£55.00
ISBN:
Published:
Mar 8, 2015
1994
Pages:
388
Size:
6 x 9.25 in.
Illus:
44 line drawings

A classic in the field of psychology, From India to Planet Mars (1900) depicts the remarkable multiple existence of the medium Hélène Smith, who claimed to be the reincarnation of Marie Antoinette, of a Hindu princess from fifteenth-century India, and of a regular visitor to Mars, whose landscapes she painted and whose language she appeared to speak fluently. Through a psychological interpretation of these fantasies, which consisted in the subliminal elaboration of forgotten memories, Théodore Flournoy vastly extended the scope and understanding of the unconscious, and in particular, of its creative and mythopoetic capacities. In the introduction to this work, Soriu Shamdasani evokes the rich cultural and intellectual setting which Flournoy published his findings, and discusses their impact on Freud, Jung, and other pioneers psychology.

Originally published in 1994.

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