Théodore Flournoy

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Théodore Flournoy (1911)
Des Indes à la planète Mars (1900)

Théodore Flournoy (born August 15, 1854 in Geneva , † November 5, 1921 in Geneva) was a Swiss psychologist and parapsychologist who became famous for his research on the somnambulistic medium Hélène Smith, published in 1900 .

Flournoy studied for a year with Wilhelm Wundt in Leipzig and was professor of psychology at the University of Geneva from 1891 . With his student Édouard Claparède he founded the magazine Archives de Psychologie and is at the beginning of the Geneva school . He was president of a congress on experimental psychology in 1909.

Fonts

  • Metaphysique et Psychologie . Geneva: Georg, 1890
  • Des phénomènes de synopsie (audition colorée): photismes, schèmes visuels, personnifications; avec 82 figures . Geneva: Eggiman, 1893
  • Des Indes à la planète Mars. Etude sur un cas de somnambulisme avec glossolalie . F. Paris: Alcan, 1900 link
    • The seer of Geneva. Authorized translation Theodor Flournoy. With a preface by Max Dessoir . Leipzig: Mine, 1914
    • Spiritism and Experimental Psychology . Leipzig: Mine, 1921
    • Des Indes à la Planète Mars . Introduction and commentary by Marina Yaguello and Mireille Cifali. Paris: Seuil, 1983
    • From India to the Planet Mars. A Case of Multiple Personality with Imganinary Languages . Edited and introduction by Sonu Shamadansi. Foreword by CG Jung . Commentary Mireille Cifali. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.
  • Nouvelles observations on a cas de somnambulisme. Geneva: Eggimann 1902.
  • Les principes de la psychologie religieuse . Geneva: Kundig, 1902
  • Observations de psychologie religieuse. Geneva: Kundig, 1903.
    • Contributions to the psychology of religion. Authorized translation M. Rule. Leipzig: Eckardt, 1911.
  • Le génie religieux . Saint-Blaise: Foyer Solidariste de Libraire et d'Édition, 1906
  • Esprits et Médiums, Melanges de Metapsychique et de Psychologie. Librairie Kündig, Geneva / Paris 1911.
    • Spiritism and Psychology . Translated, abridged and with an introduction by Hereward Carrington. Harper & Brothers, New / York / London 1911. link
  • La Philosophy de William James. Saint-Blaise: Foyer Solidariste, 1911.
    • The philosophy of William James. Translation of Helene Baumgarten. Foreword by Arthur Baumgarten . Tübingen: JCB Mohr, 1930

literature

  • Olivier Flournoy: Théodore et Léopold de Théodore Flournoy à la psychanalyse, suivi d'une correspondance entre Théodore Flournoy et Hélène Smith et de lettres de trois linguistes concernant le sanscrit d'Hélène . Neuchâtel: La Baconnière, 1986
  • Olivier Flournoy: Flournoy, Théodore (1854-1920) . In: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis. 2005
  • Nandor Fodor: Théodore Flournoy. In: An Encyclopaedia of Psychic Science. 1934 ( modified version on the website of the International Survivalist Society )
  • Heinrich Buess: On the 100th birthday of Théodore Flournoy (1854-1920) from Geneva, a Swiss doctor as a leading representative of experimental psychology and the psychology of religion , in: Schweizerische Medizinische Wochenschrift , 1954, p. 34

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personal data
SURNAME Flournoy, Théodore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss psychologist and parapsychologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1921
Place of death Geneva