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n. A strong or spellbinding appeal; fascination.

n. Hypnotic induction believed to involve animal magnetism.

n. Hypnotism.

n. The method or power of gaining control over someone's personality or actions, as in hypnosis or suggestion.

n. An earlier name for hypnosis or hypnotism, the art of inducing an extraordinary or abnormal state of the nervous system, in which the actor claims to control the actions, and communicate directly with the mind, of the recipient. It is believed to be a state between sleep and wakefulness, in which a person is more susceptible to suggestion than when awake. See Animal magnetism, under magnetism.

n. The doctrine that-one person can exercise influence over the will and nervous system of another, and produce certain phenomena by virtue of a supposed emanation, called animal magnetism, proceeding from him, or simply by the domination of his will over that of the person operated on.

n. The influence itself; animal magnetism.

n. the act of inducing hypnosis

"As Tatar has observed, it was no accident, given the roots of psychoanalysis in mesmerism and hypnosis, that Freud should so often have had recourse to the vocabulary of hydraulics and electromagnetism in formulating his metapsychology (43-44)."

influence   

hypnosis    somnolism   

hypnosis    hypnotism    magnetism   

mesmeric    mesmerize    mesmerist   

spiritualism    psychokinesis    palmistry    phrenology    telepathy