The Curse of the Wer.. - Site de Thomas - Free

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I used to be a werewolf
but I’m alright nowooooo
Although speculations about an unconscious mental life had circulated
for centuries, the notion was considerably elaborated in the nineteenth
century. Romantic interest in an authentic or ‘deep’ self was complemented
by an intensification of interest in the unconscious, and later
in the century the speculative or theoretical exploration of this idea
began to be augmented by experimental and clinical investigations. 1
The development of a more systematic and scientific approach to psychiatry
was also virtually inseparable from the spiritualist activity
that burgeoned during the same period, which generated many studies
related to the unconscious under the direction of such bodies as
the Society for Psychical Research. By the close of the century, the
‘dipsychic’ model of the human mind, which theorized the psyche as
consisting of a conscious and unconscious component, was widely endorsed
by psychiatrists. Yet, as the proliferation of werewolf literature
and fiction about dual personality in the nineteenth century indicates,
this conceptualization of the psyche was by no means confined to
psychiatry; on the contrary, it permeated the culture as thoroughly
as Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.