Isteria o possessione demoniaca? Un'inconsueta disputa iconologica

After Jean-Martin Charcot's studies, the paradigm of hysteria in its modern sense becomes the explanatory tool for investigating those phenomena that the Catholic tradition had always connected to supernatural expressions, such as mysticism and demonic possession. The operation that sees the Catholic front committed to preserving its own field of knowledge, through relevant publications on hallucinations, apparitions, ecstasies, must be ascribed to the contrast with medical science. This essay aims to analyze this debate starting from some interventions that appeared in the Jesuit journal «Études», which devoted special attention to this topic.

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