Jose Custodio da Faria

The abbot Jose Custodio da Faria (1746-1819), known as a character of the novel of Alexandre Dumas the Count of Monte Cristo , really existed and strongly marked of his print through the centuries the practice of the animal Magnétisme and the Hypnose.

In 1813, it gives to Paris a course on the lucid sleep in which it criticizes the theory of the magnetic fluid of Franz Anton Mesmer. Its book on animal magnetism, Of the cause of the lucid sleep , published little before its death, starts with an epistle with Armand Marie Jacques de Chastenet de Puységur.

Among the disciples of Faria, one finds the doctor Alexandre Bertrand and the general François Joseph Noizet. One also finds the influence of Faria in the first book on the animal magnetism which Ambroise-Auguste Liébeault publishes, the leader of the École of Nancy ( Of the sleep and the similar states - 1866).

Works

Of the cause of the lucid sleep , T. 1,1819, (Rééd. Harmattan, 2005,). The 3 other volumes projected by Faria were never published. Integral of the text in line

External bonds

Abbot Faria website
Testimonials
Abbot Faria Portrait, 2005

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