Animal magnetism and curriculum history

This article elaborates the impact that crises of authority provoked by animal magnetism, mesmerism, and hypnosis in the 19th century had for field formation in American education. Four layers of analysis elucidate how curriculum history’s repetitive focus on public school policy and classroom practice became possible. First, the article surveys external conditions of possibility for the enactment of compulsory public schooling. Second, “internal” conditions of possibility for the formation of educational objects (e.g., types of children) are documented via the processes of différance that were generated from within the experiences of confinement. Third, the article maps how these were interpenetrated by animal magnetic debates that were lustered and planished in education’s emerging field, including impact upon behavior management practices, the contouring of expertise and authority, the role of Will in intelligence testing and child development theories, and the redefinition of public and private. Last, the article examines implications for curriculum history, whether policy- or practice-oriented, especially around the question of influence, the theorization of child mind, and philosophies of Being.

Vandeleur; or, Animal magnetism. A novel ...

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Letter to Doctor A. Brigham, on animal magnetism : being an account of a remarkable interview between the author and Miss Loraina Brackett while in a state of somnambulism /

Includes letter from Dr. Brigham to Mr. stone requesting an account of the experiments in animal magnetism, Mr. Stone's reply, and an appendix containing "statements copied from the Appendix to Hartshorne's [sic] recent edition of Deleuze."

Report of the experiments on animal magnetism, made by a committee of the Medical section of the French Royal academy of sciences : read at the meeting of the 21st and 28th of June, 1831,

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Isis revelata: an inquiry into the origin, progress, and present state of animal magnetism.

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An introduction to the study of animal magnetism. With an appendix, containing reports of British practitioners in favour of the science.

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A world of wonders, or, Divers developments, showing the thorough triumph of animal magnetism in New England /

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The history and philosophy of animal magnetism, with practical instructions for the exercise of this power.

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Practical instruction in animal magnetism.

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Lettre d'un médecin de la Faculté de Paris a un médecin du College de Londres : ouvrage dans lequel on prouve contre M. Mesmer, que le magnetisme animal n'existe pas.

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L'antimagnétisme, ou Origine, progrès, décadence, renouvellement et réfutation du magnétisme animal /

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Rapport au public, de quelques abus auxquels le magnétisme animal a donné lieu /

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Mémoire sur la découverte du magnétisme animal /

With: Observations sur le magnétisme animal / par M. D'Eslon. A Londres et se trouve a Carlsrouhe : Chez Michel Maklot, 1781.

Précis historique des faits relatifs au magnétisme-animal jusques en avril 1781.

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