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The author was professor of philosophy at Galway.
Grinstein 18306.
Also published in London by Burns & Oates. Knowles was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University.
Crabtree 1901: "A learned treatise on the principal phenomena of psychical research by one of Germany's important investigators. The author covers everything from the automatisms and hysteria to mediumistic materialization."A German composer of ballads and a prolific writer, Mattiesen turned his attention late in life to psychical research, making a number of important contributions, of which the present book is one. He strongly believed in life after death and published in the 1930s a 3-volume work on the subject, considered by many the most complete and authoritative presentation of the subject. In 1927 and 1928 he published a series of articles in the spiritualist periodical Zeitschrift für Psychische Forschung in which he analyzed mediums and their trances, concluding that communicators are real and independent entities.
- The author's Ph.D. thesis at Clark under Hall, who states in his brief introduction that this is one of the earliest studies of the abnormal aspects of religion — and, indeed, Vande Kempe lists it as the fourth book in her section on religion & psychopathology. Morse undertook the study as his thesis topic at Hall's urging. He must have legally changed his name later, since he is listed in the Psychological Register and OCLC as "Morse" not "Moses." Born in Richmond, Morse gained his doctorate from Clark University in 1904, taughty there for several years, and secured a position in 1911 at the University of South Carolina, where he became Professor of Psychology and Philosophy. Most of his publications relating to religion are pre-1914, after which he turned to more traditional topics in psychopathology and to race relations in the South.
- The journal in which Morse's thesis appeared as the first monograph supplement became in 1912 The Journal of Religious Psychology, beginning with Vol. 5 No. 1, and continued until Dec. 1915, when it closed with Vol. 7 No. 4. See Vande Kempe 1034.
A private scholar with a background in sports journalism and ballooning, Silberer belonged to the Viennese Psychoanalytical Society from 1910 to 1922. Problems of Mysticism and Its Symbolism was his magnum opus. Many of Silberer's insights developed in his book were similar to those developed later by Jung, which Jung acknowledged in his Psychology and Alchemy. With his book rejected by Freud, Silberer eventually committed suicide by hanging himself after being excommunicated from Freud's circle. In Problems … Silberer took as his starting point a Rosicrucian text known as the Parabola Allegory, an alchemical writing with many parallels to the Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz. After conducting a Freudian interpretation of the allegory, he then compared that method to the wider symbolic methods of alchemy, hermeticism, Rosicrucianism, and other mystical traditions, such as Kundalini Yoga and the Bhagavad Gita. Very much foreshadowing Jung, Silberer argued that Freudian analysis did not go far enough in interpreting the inner psychological and spiritual meanings of dreams, mental processes, or creative output. Silberer was the first member of Freud's circle to take alchemy seriously as an object of study.
Contains chapters on Hindu and Moslem mystics, St. Theresa, the anonymous Protestant authoress of The Golden Fountain, and mass mysticism (the Welsh Revival, 1904-5).Return to Gach Books home page