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Volume
2 no 1
Sigmund Freud’s Investigation of Astrology
Nicholas Campion
Abstract
Following the First World War there was an
increase in the use of psychics and clairvoyants as the bereaved attempted to
contact their dead relations. Sigmund Freud saw this as a dangerous development
and in 1921 set out to study it. As part of this he considered the visit of one
of his patients to an astrologer, placing the incident in its historical
context, looking at the causes and possible consequences of the occult boom.
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