List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: French Cultures of Hypnosis
1. “Experimental Neuroses”: Hypnotism at the Salpêtrière Hospital
The Clinical Geography of Charcot’s New Research Center
The Experimentalization of the Unconscious
2. The Controversy between Paris and Nancy over Hypnotic Suggestion
Hypnotic Suggestion as a Therapeutic Method in Nancy
A “Suggestive Atmosphere”: Bernheim’s Clinic
The Problem of Simulation
Suggestible Subjects
Two Cultures of Hypnotism
3. “Amour expérimental”: Facts and Fetishes at the Musée Charcot
A “Museum of Clinical Facts”
Transferring Psychic Objects
Pinning Down Hallucinations
Fetishistic Object-Relations
The Tactical Intelligence of Subjects
4. The Question of Lay Hypnosis
Stage Magnetism and Lay Hypnosis
Enter the Critic: Joseph Delbœuf
Challenging the Medical Monopoly on Hypnosis
Part II: The Emergence of the Psychoanalytic Setting
5. Paris–Vienna: A Problematic Transfer
Translation Problems
Polemics Surrounding the “Wiener Nancyer”
The Krafft-Ebing Scandal
6. Freud and the Vicissitudes of Private Practice
Conflicting Ceremonies of the Cure
Factoring Out the Problem of Simulation
Freud’s Revision: Analysis without Hypnosis
7. The Psychotherapeutic Private Practice between Clinic and Laboratory
Voice Commands: The Soundscape of the Hypnotic Consulting Room
Introspective Hypnotism
The Fractionation Method: Oskar Vogt’s Laboratory of Hypnosis
“Psychical Analyses”: Vogt versus Freud
8. Experimentalism without a Laboratory: The Psychoanalytic Setting
“Self-Analyses”: Writing, Reading, and Dreaming
Tracking the Complex: Attempts at Stabilizing the Psychoanalytic Setting
Objects Blanked Out: Freud’s Scene of Treatment
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index