[71] For example, ereutophobia (fear of blushing) and tremophobia (fear of tremor) are abnormal psychoneurotic conditions which illustrate the reaction and interaction between psychical state and physical manifestation. Blushing and spontaneous tremor are reflex manifestations of the emotional condition, which in these cases increase in proportion to the fear of blushing or of tremor respectively. The physical phenomenon produces the obsession which, in its turn, increases the somatic reaction; the exaggeration of the latter again reacts on the mental disorder. Such psycho-physical reactions operate in varying degree in all states of emotional excitement. (Roussy and Lhermitte.) [72] "Principles of Psychology," vol. ii, chap. xxv. [73] "Conflict" and "repression" are the terms in current usage by psychiatrists of the Freudian school to explain the mechanism of psychoneurotic disturbance. [74] It should be noted that this is an inverted form of cosmic suggestion which exerts a considerable influence over certain dispositions; very often this bias is confined to one or two subjects only in which an individual is particularly interested, and in connexion with which a permanently repellent autosuggestion is developed. Some writers have spoken of this as _contra-suggestion_. On these subjects any suggestion conveyed by word or sign provokes an immediate and unthinking contradiction or an unreasoning hostile attitude or tendency. [75] Préface à "Bajazet." [76] The æsthetic emotions are dealt with at length by Dr. Bain in "The Emotions and the Will," chap. xiv. [77] I.e. processes of the conscious or objective mind. [78] There are a few notable exceptions where this instinct appears to be deficient among primitive and nomadic tribes. McDougall instances the Punaris of Borneo. [79] "Social Psychology," p. 100. [80] "The Free Press," 1918. [81] Mr. Hughes, March 11, 1918. [82] Gustave Le Bon. [83] I.e. powers of the subjective mind. [84] Thus Mr. Jevons says: "The consciousness of the child reproduces the consciousness of the community to which he belongs."--"The Idea of God in Early Religions." PRINTED AT THE COMPLETE PRESS WEST NORWOOD LONDON, S.E.