The Idea of Ideoplasty and Occult Phenomena in the Theoretical and Empirical Research of Julian Ochorowicz
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13044762 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karolina Maria Hess (0000-0002-6326-7445, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 239-274 |
| Publication date | 2018-08-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Preternature Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2161-2188 • E-ISSN: 2161-2196 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/preternature.7.2.0239 |
| OpenAlex | W2907834718 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
Julian Leopold Ochorowicz (1850–1917) was a psychologist, philosopher, and inventor, as well as a photographer, journalist, and poet. As a positivist, he postulated strict research methods in science and treated psychology as a field of study to which the tools of natural sciences can be applied. Ochorowicz's interest in occult phenomena, which for him were not supernatural but just unexplained and misinterpreted qualities of the human body and mind, in time grew to be the most intriguing topic of his work. Ochorowicz wanted to experimentally examine medium-related and other occult phenomena, which he associated with hypnotic states. He used the term “ideoplasty” for a class of phenomena that he deemed theoretically possible, whereby psychic energy is transformed into material excretions. Ideoplasty was a part of his wider conception of transformations of energy (e.g., of power into motion), which combined his theoretical attitude in psychology and his technical inventions
Alternative medicine · Energy (signal processing · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Natural (archaeology · Occult · Physics · Positivism · Power (physics · Psychic · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · History · Medicine · Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |