and productive career. He worked in law, including progressive attempts to push the legal landscape into reproductive and abortion rights and sex education. He worked in medicine, particularly around psychopathology. He worked in the psychical research of the place and time. He also wrote a book on modern forms of mysticism within Theosophy, Le mysticisme contemporain (1893), which he discusses again in Les phénomènes psychiques, confessing that he came upon these texts by accident and that he felt some surprise that “a mystical movement” could find clients at the end of the nineteenth
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