1774

F.A. Mesmer, demonstrations of Mesmerism, or animal magnetism.

Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare; painting.

Francesco Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters; Caprichos, pl. 43; etching.

Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea; philosophy

Theodore Gericault's portraits of the insane for Dr. Georget; paintings.

Robert Macnish, The Philosophy of Sleep; psychology.

Edgar A. Poe, "William Wilson;" short story about double personality.

James Braid, Scottish physician, coins term Hypnotism.

Gustave Courbet, Self-Portrait as a Desperate Man; painting.

Edgar A. Poe, "The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar;" short story about mesmerism.

Carl Gustav Carus, Psyche; psychology.

Discovery of Spiritism in Hydesville, New York, by the Fox family.

Victor Hugo, spiritist drawings, seances.
Justinus Kerner, Klecksographien; spiritist drawings.

Hervey de Saint-Denis, Les Reves et les moyens de les diriger; psychology.
Alphonse Maury, Le Sommeil et les Reves; psychology.

G.H. von Schubert, Die Symbolik des Traumes; psychology.

Eduard von Hartmann, The Philosophy of the Unconscious; psychology.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy; philosophy.

Stephane Mallarme, "L'Apres midi d'un faun;" poetry.

Odilon Redon, Dans le Reve; album of lithographs.

Max Klinger, Fantasies on the Finding of a Glove; etchings.

Society for Psychical Research founded in London.
J.M. Charcot presents lecture to French Academy on Hypnotic therapy for hysterics. Hypnosis is rehabilitated as a medical technique.

Carl du Prel, The Philosophy of Mysticism; philosphy.
Sigmund Freud studies with Charcot in Paris; Max Nordau also studies with Charcot this year.

Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde; novel.
Guy de Maupassant, "Le Horla," short story.

Paul Gauguin, Vision After the Sermon: Jacob Wrestling with the Angel; painting.
Edouard Dujardin, Les Lauriers sont coupees; novel with first direct interior monologue.

First International Congress of Hypnotism in Paris. Among those attending were Charcot and Sigmund Freud.
Fernand Khnopff, Memories; painting.

Odilon Redon, Songes; album of lithographs.
Fernand Khnopff,I lock my door upon myself; painting.
George DuMaurier, Peter Ibbetson; novel about dreams.

George DuMaurier, Trilby; novel about hypnotism.
August Strindberg, "The New Arts, or the Role of Chance in Artistic Creation;" essay proposing the use of chance effects as an expression and analogue of the unconscious.

Josef Breuer and Sigmund Freud, Studies on Hysteria; psychology.

Dr. Paul Chabaneix, Le Subconscient chez les artistes, les savants et les ecrivains; psychology.

Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams; psychology.
Fernand Khnopff photographed in front of his altar to Hypnos. (date approximate)

Annie Besant and Charles W. Leadbeater. Thought Forms; theosophy.

August Strindberg, The Dream Play; drama.

Emile Magnin, L'Art et l'Hypnose; hypnotic trance as a key to artistic creation, with documentation of experimental performances.