Julian Ochorowicz's experiments with Eusapia Palladino 1894
The temporality of mass media and the crisis of local credibility
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4004549 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jan Surman (0000-0003-1499-3122, Department for the History of the Academy of Sciences Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences Praha Czech Republic, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 24-41 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5061 • E-ISSN: 1520-6696 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/jhbs.22119 |
| PMID | 34320226 |
| OpenAlex | W3185581907 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 28 |
Julian Ochorowicz (1850-1917) belonged to the first generation of psychologists who regarded this discipline as a scientific, positive endeavor. At the same time, he was a representative of psychic sciences, following a strictly positivist attitude to researching psychic phenomena. This article discusses the key event of his career, experiments with the famous medium Eusapia Palladino, in Warsaw, between late 1893 and early 1894. Ochorowicz's séances with Palladino attracted wide local and international attention and improved his standing as an internationally leading psychic researcher. In Warsaw, however, these experiments were fiercely controversial and, as a result, Ochorowicz was discredited and left the city. As I argue, this dissociation of credibilities was the outcome of a changing media landscape in the late nineteenth century. While Ochorowicz's strategy of boundary-work and asserting his credibility aimed at scholarly media, it proved fatal when facing intensive, daily coverage in the popular press
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |