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1- OBJECTIVE ILLUSIONS

A) Visual illusions
Optical principles tabulated
B) Auditory illusions
Illusions of direction
Stereophonic illusions
Illusions of duration
Illusions of intensity and distance
C) Illusions of touch, taste and smell
Tactile illusion
1. Substition
2. Constrast
3. Persistence
Illusion of taste and smell

2- SUBJECTIVE ILLUSIONS

A) Illusion and mental time
Shortening and lengthening mental time
1. Interest
Shortening of mental time
Lengthening mental time by division
2. Age
Time disorientation

B) Illusion of state
Throught assertion
Throught subconscious impressions, associations, and comparisons
1. An illusion of size due to commonplace associations
Illusions of construction
An illusion of condition
2. Impressions by false inference
3. Impressions by mental supplementing
3.a. Completion-recognition illusions
3.b. Preconditioning ton induce expectancy
3.c. Confusion illusions
A confusing force

3- INFLUENCE BY SUGGESTION

A) Creating atmosphere
Types of atmosphere
Influences on atmosphere

B) Inducing imaginary impressions
Putting on the 'fluence
Magic depends upon prompting the imagination
Dramatise it!
Why we cannot please all the people alle the time
A person's outlook changes in a crowd
The bounce-back technique

C) Emotional secrets of showmanship and stagecraft
Dramatic techniques
Consider the audience
Houdini's showmanship

D) Influencing choice (forcing)
Direct forcing
1. Guided choice forcing
Telepathic influence
The hypnotic eye
2. Limited choice forcing
3. Calculated probability or biased choice forcing
Indirect forcing
1. Duplication
2. Substitution
3. Equivocation or misinterpretation
4. Elimination
5. Mathematical forcing
The die force
6. Mechanical forcing
7. Alternative disclosure

E) Misdirection
1. Skill or magic?
2. Misdirection in practice
3. Purpose of misdirection
4. Attention and inattention
5. Remembering and forgetting
6. Varying the intensity of attention
7. Direction and misdirection
Periods for misdirection
Points of emphasis
8. Disguise and distraction
Active and passive misdirection
Active misdirection to disguise
1. Authority
2. Natural, uniform, and appropriate actions
Establishing a norm
3. Inference
Indirect proof and avoidance of over emphasis
4. Repetition or recapitulation
4.1. Repetition to create a norm
4.2. Repetition to emphasise
4.3. Repetition to induce anticipation
4.4. Repetition to allay suspicion
4.5. Repetition for confusion
4.6. Repetition to induce monotonu
Avoiding monotony by variation
5. Audacity
6. Feigning
6.1. Simulation
6.2. Dissimulation
7. Ruse or covering procedure
8. Timing
8.1. Pace
8.2. Pause
8.3. The disarming time lapse
Unrealised confusion
9. Removal of evidence
10. Substitution of evidence
11. Varied procedure
12. Inspection
12.1. Partial inspection
12.2. Detached inspection
12.3. Sequential inspection
Active misdirection to distract attention
1. Audience participation
2. Indication by gesture and gaze
3. Decoy Movement or variation
4. Mental stimulation
5. Emotional stimulation
6. Surprise and suspense
6.1. Absolute surprise
6.2. Anticipated surprise
6.3. Forewarned surprise
Conradi's vanishing lamp
6.4. Substituted surprise
Suspense
7. Speech or patter, and sound
Conjuring to children
Conjuring to juniors
Personalising patter
The ladies
Patter plots for the cientifically minded
Topics of interest
Negative and positive suggestions
The illusion plot and the dramatic plot
8. Intentional mishaps
Error to convince
Error to amuse
Passive misdirection for disguise or effacement
1. Natural, appropriate, and uniform appearance
2. Camouflage
3. Disposition
4. Separation
5. Lack of interest
6. Lack of glamour
7. Immobility
8.Multiplicity
9. Identification
Passive misdirection to distract attention
1. Prominence or intensity
2. Novelty
3. Inessential features or properties

Principles of misdirection tabulated
Active misdirection to disguise
Active misdirection to distract attention
Passive misdirection for disguise or effacement
Passive misdirection to distract attention

4- Intellectual

A) Character assessing
1. Character reading for selecting and managing temporary assistants and audiences
The psychological assessing of character
2. Character grouping for programme building appropriate to the audience
Performing condition or environment
Al-fresco conjuring
Magic for the institutionalised

B) Detection
1. Observation
1.1. Prior observation
1.2. Direct surresptitious observation
2. Deduction
2.1. Calculation
2.2. Calculated probability
2.3. Mathematical keys

C) Artificial memory
Technical aids to memory
1. Rhyme or sound linking
A simple memory test
2. Nonsense verse
3. Location
4. Similarity and opposition
5. Abbreviation
6. Visual association
7. Tabulated sequences
8. Catenation
9. Mnemonic translation
The figure alphabet
The table of numerical key words
The memorisation of long numbers
The knight's tour
Tables of selectional key words
The card table
Tables of fixed ideas
The Nikola card system
Table of Nikola pack dealt into four hands
Setting-up the pack during the performance
Rapid cubing
10. Data bank

D) Verbal substitution
1. Miscalling
2. General information substituted for particular information
Formalised questions for the question and answer act

E) Codes, cues and clues
Auditory codes
1. Spoken codes
The secret telegraph
Robert Helle's speaking code
The Zancig system
Practice and patience
A secret of showmanship
Guessing
Fractions
All-alike figures
Sequences of numbers
Gingering up an audience
Sums
Transmitting letters or initials
Surnames
Common names
Transmitting the names of articles
The article code
Transmitting money
Cueing dates
Transmitting playing cards
The "relation" list
The codes for metals
Cueing colours
Cueing papers
Cueing animals
How to cue countries
The cues for games
Special test
2. Other sound cues
Visual codes and cues
1. Eye, mouth, and head codes
2. Finger, hand, and gesture codes
Gesture codes
Verbeck's "psychonotism"
The figure alphabet
3. Posture codes
4. Position or location codes
Tactile and other sensory codes
Indicator clues and keys
Synchonised counting of timing
Foreknowledge
1. Withholding information
2. Prearranged sequences or rotas
3. Tabulated data
4. Secret prompters
4.1 Whispering
4.2. Prompter board
4.3. Prompter reel or cards
4.4. Listening devices
4.5. Physical contact devices
4.6. Conveyance of documents
5. Collusion
Impropmtu confederacy
1. Planting
2. Spectator prompting

Attendants and assistants
1. Visible assistants
2. Concealed assistants
3. Animal assistants

Charlatanism in conjuring
Appendix 1 - Music for magic
Appendix 2 - Causes of laughter

Résumé :
The second volume of S.H. Sharpe's massive work. This book presents the classifications, principles and examples of important psychological techniques every magician should know about. Never before has there been a reference manual as complete as this. It is a veritable encyclopedic work. The author has done a superb job in analyzing and classifying the Principles used in the Psychology of Conjuring. He identifies four Fundamental Principles (Objective Illusions, Subjective Illusions, Influence by Suggestions and Intellectual) and 15 Specific Principles. The book is divided into four chapters. Chapter One deals with the Objective Illusions of Taste, Touch and Smell as well as Visual and Auditory Illusions. Chapter Two covers the Subjective Illusions of Time, Interest, Age Disorientation, Illusion of State, Assertion, Subconscious Impressions, Associations, Comparisons, Inference, Mental Supplementing, Pre-conditioning and Confusion Illusions. Chapter Three offers Influence by Suggestion, Creating Atmosphere, Imaginary Impressions, Emotional Secrets, Showmanship, Stagecraft, Influencing Choice and Misdirection. Chapter Four covers the intellectual side of conjuring psychology, specifically Character Assessing, Detection by observation and Deduction, Artificial Memory Techniques, Verbal Substitution, Codes, Cue sand Clues. Over 180 pages of valuable information. [Editor's summary]

Remerciement au donateur : Cirque du Soleil

Collection : Collection documentaire du Cirque du Soleil

Localisation : Bibliothèque

Cote : 793.801 SHA 1988

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