Sigmund Freud’s Investigation of Astrology

Author: 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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Publication: Culture and Cosmos
Issue: Vol 2 No 1
Dated: Spring/Summer 1998
Pages: 49 – 53