"Originally published as Mikroskopie der Psyche: Die Anfänge der Psychoanalyse im Hypnose-Labor, [copyright] Wallstein, Göttingen, 2002"--Verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-250) and index.

French cultures of hypnosis -- "Experimental neuroses": hypnotism at the Salpêtrière Hospital -- The clinical geography of Charcot's new research center -- The experimentalization of the unconscious -- The controversy between Paris and Nancy over hypnotic suggestion -- Hypnotic suggestion as a therapeutic method in Nancy -- A "suggestive atmosphere": Bernheim's clinic -- The problem of simulation -- Suggestible subjects -- Cultures of hypnotism -- "Amour expérimental": facts and fetishes at the Musée Charcot -- A "museum of clinical facts" -- Transferring psychic objects -- Pinning down hallucinations -- Fetishistic object-relations -- The tactical intelligence of subjects -- The question of lay hypnosis -- Stage magnetism and lay hypnosis -- Enter the critic: Joseph Delboeuf -- Challenging the medical monopoly on hypnosis -- The emergence of the psychoanalytic setting -- Paris-Vienna: a problematic transfer -- Translation problems -- Polemics surrounding the "Wiener Nancyer" -- The Krafft-Ebing scandal -- Freud and the vicissitudes of private practice -- Conflicting ceremonies of the cure -- Factoring out the problem of simulation -- Freud's revision: analysis without hypnosis -- The psychotherapeutic private practice between clinic and laboratory -- Voice commands: the soundscape of the hypnotic consulting room -- Introspective hypnotism -- The fractionation method: Oskar Vogt's laboratory of hypnosis -- "Psychical analyses": Vogt versus Freud -- Experimentalism without a laboratory: the psychoanalytic setting -- "Self-analyses": writing, reading, and dreaming -- Tracking the complex: attempts at stabilizing the psychoanalytic setting -- Objects blanked out: Freud's scene of treatment.