The Internal Image: Mind and Brain in the Age of Charcot.
This article uses the work of French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot and his contemporaries to explore the central role played by internal or mental images in late nineteenth-century understandings of mental function. It argues that the assumed existence of internal images allowed scientists and cli...
| Published in: | Modern Intellectual History Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 23 - 47 |
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Cambridge University Press
Mar2021
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