Avatars du mesmérisme

Among Franz Anton Mesmer’s disciples stands out Chastenet de Puységur, whose version goes beyond the physical magnetism entailed from a cause to lead to hypnotism. The result is a new and surprising worldview in which everything seems possible. The tale Le Magnétiseur by E.T.A. Hoffmann, like a founding act, will explain the way to the narrations the various and complex implications of the mesmerian magnetism, lighting up the conjunction of the marvelous and the dream, impulses and ethics, dreams and lies.