Animismus und spiritismus. Versuch einer kritischen prüfung der mediumistischen phänomene mit besonderer berücksichtigung der hypothesen der hallucination und des unbewussten. Als entgegnung auf Ed. v. Hartmann's Werk: "Der spiritismus."
A German spiritualism treatise by Aleksandr Aksakov, published in Leipzig in 1894, written as a critical reply to Eduard von Hartmann and aimed at readers interested in mediumistic phenomena and psychology. Its photographic plates show seated sitters at tables with luminous, blurred white forms beside them, staged as spirit-photograph experiments. A designer might take the ghostly soft-focus glow, the dim interiors, and the formal Victorian group poses as a vintage motif for mystery, haunting, or the uncanny.
