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The '''Revue des Sciences Hypnotiques''' is a French scientific journal from the era of [[Donato — Il Padre della Fascinazione|Donato]] that documents the academic debate on fascination and hypnotism. It is an external and independent source of exceptional value because it testifies to how the scientific community of the time received and evaluated Donato's method.

The journal is preserved in the ISI-CNV archive and is available on the Internet Archive.

'''ISI-CNV Drive Sources:'''
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M5oLRY1v6WJ0nrT8r-BstjWDHudLYycS/view Full text HTML (Drive)]
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/17tApY1Vs5qUFjfsJdi4_hrqullFHD6R3/view Original PDF (Drive)]

== Donato in the Revue: 46 occurrences ==

Donato appears 46 times in the journal — a massive presence that testifies to how central he was in the scientific debate of the time. The most significant passages:

=== Fascination as a recognized scientific state ===

The journal describes Donato's fascination as a recognizable and classifiable intermediate state:

: ''"But in some circumstances, and more particularly in people of an absolutely healthy temperament, and for this very reason a little slow to hypnotize, somniation is preceded by a state of heaviness and numbness, even stupor, which is nothing other than Donato's fascination and Chambard's lucid lethargy. This intermediate state between the waking state and the hypnotic state is characterized by the fact that the subject cannot, despite all efforts, open their eyes if occlusion has been determined, nor close them if they are, on the contrary, excessively wide open, because the eyelids are absolutely contracted; cutaneous sensitivity is..."''

This is a crucial point: the Revue classifies fascination as a **scientifically distinct state** — not a trick, not a variant of common hypnosis — and explicitly names it after Donato: it is the "fascination of Donato," which entered the scientific lexicon of the time.

=== The evaluation of Morselli's book ===

The journal discusses the book by [[Prof. Enrico Morselli — Il Magnetismo Animale, la Fascinazione e gli Stati Ipnotici (1886)|Morselli]] and his position on Donato:

: ''"What outraged certain people against Mr. Morselli is that this inquiry, conducted in good faith and without preconceptions, came to the conclusion that Donato should not be counted among the common charlatans, that he does not deviate in the interpretation of hypnotic phenomena from the doctrines accepted by the schools of the Salpêtrière and Nancy, that his experiments do not leave the domain of science, that they do not present dangers as considerable as has been said, and that with his public exhibitions, carried out almost everywhere, he has inspired more than one scientist now in fame."''

And the journal's final evaluation of Morselli: "Well! Frankly, there was no reason to blame Mr. Morselli so much."

=== The Italian interdiction and the episode of the prosecutor ===

The journal documents a specific episode that led to Donato's interdiction in Italy — with details not found elsewhere:

: ''"Would the Italians have had some regret for having proscribed Donato because at the end of one of his performances a king's prosecutor had been struck by paresis, a lady seized by catalepsy, a student become a natural somnambulist, another unable to fix his compass under penalty of falling into catalepsy, yet another who, since then, is obliged to run after all carriages whose lanterns are lit?"''

This episode — the prosecutor struck by paresis, the persistent effects on spectators — is the documented reason for Donato's interdiction in Italy by the Italian government. The journal discusses it with irony: the authorities seem almost repentant for having acted so drastically.

=== Donato as an inspirer of official science ===

The journal explicitly states what Moréty/Paret documented: Donato inspired scientists who then did not cite him:

: ''"Whatever opinion one may have of Donato, Hansen, and all those who have made magnetism known to the public, it cannot be denied that they have done more for its cause than all the medical faculties of France and Italy."''

=== Fascination as "hypnose fruste" ===

The journal uses an interesting technical term to classify Donato's fascination: "hypnose fruste" — an incomplete, initial hypnosis that does not reach full somnambulism. This term — used with a certain academic condescension — does not, however, diminish the reality of the phenomena:

: "...la fascination, dont s'occupe à peu près exclusivement aujourd'hui Donato, et qui pour nous n'est qu'une hypnose fruste..."

In modern terms: fascination is the first stage, the entry into the hypnotic state — what in the [[Paret Method]] corresponds to the first level (simple fascination) before the deepening stages.

== Importance for the ISI-CNV archive ==

The Revue des Sciences Hypnotiques confirms from an external and critical source:
# The reality of Donato's phenomena (no one seriously claims simulation)
# The inclusion of "Donato's fascination" in the official scientific lexicon
# Donato's role as an uncited inspirer of scientists
# The historical reasons for legal persecutions (Italy, Bordeaux)
# The classification of fascination as an intermediate waking/hypnosis state

== Sources ==

* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M5oLRY1v6WJ0nrT8r-BstjWDHudLYycS/view Full text HTML — ISI-CNV Drive]
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/17tApY1Vs5qUFjfsJdi4_hrqullFHD6R3/view Original PDF — ISI-CNV Drive]
* [https://archive.org/details/revuedesscience37unkngoog Internet Archive]

== See also ==

* [[Donato — Il Padre della Fascinazione]]
* [[Prof. Enrico Morselli — Il Magnetismo Animale, la Fascinazione e gli Stati Ipnotici (1886)]]
* [[La Fascinazione di Donato — Guida Completa al Metodo]]
* [[La Fascinazione come Fenomeno Psicofisiologico — Donato e la Scienza]]

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