Open AccessSigmund Freud’s Investigation of Astrology
Author(s) -
Nicholas Campion
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
culture and cosmos
Language(s) - English
DOI - 10.46472/cc.0102.0211
Subject(s) - astrology , occult , context (archaeology) , boom , history , psychoanalysis , psychology , medicine , classics , archaeology , engineering , pathology , alternative medicine , environmental engineering
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.