Élan Vital- The Force of Life

The term was coined by the French philosopher Henri Bergson, and at its roots was an attempt to understand the selections of lifeless objects and those of having an essence of life. Bergson thought that if by discovering and manipulating the Élan Vital and presenting an inanimate object with it along with an electric current, life might be possible. Alas, simple ignorance of anatomy to infinitesimal protons and neutrons is firstly a problem of any time period but one that must be gone through to slowly pick at the truth of the universe. Plus, to make matters worse, do we really know what makes us alive?




Also Mary Shelley's used vitalism ( Élan Vital would be the "life spark" and vitalism would be the doctrine to understand it) in her The Night that Birthed Frankenstein among other of her famous novels.