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166 THE FEMALE THERMOMETER Figure 9.8 Spirit photograph by Edouard Buguet (c 1870) Courtesy of the Bibliotheque Nationale the romantic belief in the haunting nature of thoughts (or alternatively, to the idea that ghosts exist inside the head), one will be especially likely to experience one's own thoughts in an uncanny, involuntary, oddly embodied way—as a kind of bizarre, alienating spectacle imposed from without Certainly many people in the nineteenth century spoke of the "phantoms of the brain" as though they carne