Introduction : psychical research and French science -- From religious enthusiasm to reluctant science : psychical research, 1848-1882 -- The development of psychical research in France, 1882-1900 -- The measure of uncertainty : the Institut général psychologique, 1900-1908 -- The master and his double : Charles Richet and the literary unconscious -- In the wake of war : the Institut métapsychique international -- The limits of method : the question of good faith and the decline of psychical research -- Conclusion : indeterminacy and the discourse of tables
