Psychologie und Charakterologie der Okkultisten (Psychology and Character of Occultists)
Stuttgart: Ferdinand Enke, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 130 (1)pp. Original three-quarter brown cloth over marbled boards with black lettering and ruling on spine. Tan endpapers. Publisher's device on title page. Extensive essay on the psychology and characterology of occultists. Reviewing the development of occultism over the last 150 years, emphasizing the emotional attitude of occultists, the lack of methodology, superficiality, thoughtlessness, and credulity of occultists, the psycho-pathology of occultist and one chapter reviewing the affect authorities have when grappling with occultism, e.g. Schopenhauer. One page of publisher's advertisement at rear. Text in German. Binding with light wear along edges, light bumps at corners and some sunning of upper left front cover and spine. Small Ex-Libris on inside front cover. Lightly starting at foreword. Binding in overall good, interior in very good condition. g to vg. Item #47519
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