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Myers, Frederic William Henry

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“…This book was positioned as a counter to the increasing predominance of mechanism and materialism within psychology (specifically the work of Alexander Bain and Herbert Spencer), and as performing a dialogue with subliminal psychology. 5 One of the specific background debates that McDougall was engaging was the work of Frederic Myers (1904), who argued that human personality is not wholly destroyed by death (see Blackman, 2008a, 2010, for more detail). Luckhurst (2002) argues in the conclusion to his genealogy of telepathy that the claim that the personality could survive death was one that pushed telepathy to the periphery, taking up residency within the psychological sciences as a marginalized sub-discipline, parapsychology, 6 rationalized under a newly emerging concept of ESP (extra-sensory perception).…”

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“… 5. Subliminal psychology was characterized particularly by the writings of Boris Sidis (1898), Frederic Myers (1904), William James (1890) and Pierre Janet (1907), who all subscribed to the idea that consciousness was not housed within the individual mind or brain, but rather that individual minds were receptors or transmitters of more collective forms of consciousness, which existed and extended beyond the human body. Subliminal psychology spanned an interest in dynamic psychology and psychopathology (particularly multiple personality and hysteria), telepathy and psychical research, hypnotic trance, suggestion and crowd psychology (see Blackman, 2010, for a discussion of subliminal psychology in relation to current debates on affect and vitalism across the humanities). …”

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Habit and Affect: Revitalizing a Forgotten History

Blackman

2013

Body & Society

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Habit is an integral concept for body studies, a hybrid concept and one that has provided the bedrock across the humanities for considering the interrelationships between movement and stasis, being and becoming, and process and fixity. Habits are seen to provide relay points between what is taken to be inside and outside, disrupting any clear and distinct boundary between nature and culture, self and other, the psychological and social, and even mind and matter. Habit thus discloses a paradox. It takes up a unique position in affect modulation, which encompasses both regulation (in the form of discipline) and also extends the body's potential for engaging the new, change and creativity. In order to understand the basis of the ambivalent duality governing understandings of habit it is argued that a genealogical approach to this question is necessary. This will be located within the recent 'turn to affect' and histories of conation within the psychological sciences, particularly taking the writings of William McDougall as a focus.

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2013

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“…Hori, Hayashi, and Morikawa (1994) conceived of hypnagogic states as a unique period that cannot be accurately categorized as either waking or sleeping, and with unique behavioral, electrophysiological, and subjective characteristics. Similar phenomena occurring at the transition from sleep to wakefulness are called hypnopompic (Myers, 1904); here, however, it is difficult to differentiate hypnagogic imagery from remnants of dream imagery. Hypnagogic-like phenomena may also occur in daytime periods of reduced wakefulness and possibly superimposed over adequate sensory perceptions of the environment (cf.…”

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Psychobiology of Altered States of Consciousness.

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Gruzelier³

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Psychological Bulletin

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The article reviews the current knowledge regarding altered states of consciousness (ASC) (a) occurring spontaneously, (b) evoked by physical and physiological stimulation, (c) induced by psychological means, and (d) caused by diseases. The emphasis is laid on psychological and neurobiological approaches. The phenomenological analysis of the multiple ASC resulted in 4 dimensions by which they can be characterized: activation, awareness span, self-awareness, and sensory dynamics. The neurophysiological approach revealed that the different states of consciousness are mainly brought about by a compromised brain structure, transient changes in brain dynamics (disconnectivity), and neurochemical and metabolic processes. Besides these severe alterations, environmental stimuli, mental practices, and techniques of self-control can also temporarily alter brain functioning and conscious experience.

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“…32 Myers's Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death (1903) offers a useful definition of an 'aura' as an 'influence environing each human being, whose limits it is not easy to define'. 33 Significantly, this means that Symonds does not posit the detection of queer 'aura' merely as the product of an inquisitive interpretative reading strategy (something akin to an early 'queer reading'). Rather, detection depends on a receptiveness to the transmission of queerness, here understood in material terms as a physical 'influence' or 'effluence' given off by bodies and things.…”

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‘Now—for a breath I tarry’: Breath, Desire, and Queer Materialism at the fin de siècle

Riddell

2021

The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine

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Riddell explores how tropes of breath and breathlessness articulate the relationship between materiality, desire, and loss for queer subjects in Victorian literature. The essay presents readings of A. E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad, John Addington Symonds’s Memoirs, and Walter Pater’s ‘Sebastian van Storck’ (from Imaginary Portraits). It also examines nineteenth-century sexology (including writings by Magnus Hirschfeld) to demonstrate how certain modes of breathing were directly associated with non-normative sexuality in the period. Riddell draws upon insights from contemporary queer theory, in its turns toward negative affect and phenomenology, to examine precarious forms of embodied subjectivity in the history of homosexuality. By doing so, he demonstrates how experiences of embodiment are never universal but closely bound up with individual subject positions (such as sexuality and gender).

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Habit and Affect: Revitalizing a Forgotten History

Psychobiology of Altered States of Consciousness.

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