Abstract

CONFORTE, Anna J.¹  and  VALLEJO, Mauro S.. HYPNOTISM AND MAGNETISM IN REVISTA MAGNETOLÓGICA (1897-1903). Anu. investig. [online]. 2016, vol.23, n.1, pp.259-268. ISSN 1851-1686.

The aim of this article is to analyze a source that has not been deeply studied yet: the Magnetologic Magazine (Revista Magnetológica) published by a society mainly composed of adherents of spiritualism and theosophy in Buenos Aires. The content of the magazine offers valuable evidence about the way in which social actors -who were foreign to the medical traditional field- theoretically and practically approached hypnosis and magnetism at the end of the century. In fact, magnetists from Buenos Aires not only developed complex conceptualizations of these phenomena, but also implemented magnetic cures which details were spread throughout the pages of the magazine. Our task is to analyze some specific aspects of this publication: on the one hand, how the magnetists were placed in relation to the doctors of the city, and on the other, their strategies of self-legitimation.

Keywords : Hypnotism; Magnetism; End of the 19th century.

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