Helene Smith

ISBN-13: 9780197680025 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 184 str.

Massicotte

Recenzje

During her career as a medium in the late nineteenth century, H'el`ene Smith wrote poems, invented languages, developed herself as all-round artist, and even travelledDLin her astral bodyDLto other planets. Now, this example of female creativity, who lived at a time when only men were considered geniuses, is finally getting the spotlight she deserves. Massicotte's thoughtful study of this surrealist role model contributes significantly to the histories of psychoanalysis and of modern occultism. Telling Smith's story, it also sheds light on the gender dynamics at play in the modern discovery of the unconscious and the complexity of authorship both overcome and deepened, paradoxically, by creative women mediums.

O autorze

Claudie Massicotte is a learning designer in San Diego, California. She previously worked as Assistant Professor of Literary Theory and Criticism at Young Harris College and as a Postdoctoral fellow in French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Trance Speakers: Femininity and Authorship in Spiritual Seances, 1850-1930.