Transformations of Demonic Illusion. Dream, Hallucination, Phantasmagoria (C06)

• Subject Area: European and American Literary and Cultural Studies ; German Literary and Cultural Studies (Modern German Literature)
• Term: since 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 405662736

Project C06 explores transformations of the early modern demonic illusion and its contribution to a ‘different’ aesthetics. In the second funding phase, the project will concentrate on the externalisation of the demonic illusion in the apparatus, i. e. in the laterna magica projections up to Robertson’s phantasmagoria, and – in the medical discourse – on the internalisation of demons through inner perception. Based on the praxeological model of the CRC, the interactions between projection technologies, medical concepts (hallucination, dream) and an aesthetics of horror will be demonstrated for German and French literature. In this way, the project will open up perspectives on the modern period.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1391: Different Aesthetics
• Applicant Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Susanne Goumegou; Professor Dr. Jörg Robert