The unconscious : $b The fundamentals of human personality, normal and abnormalPrince, Morton
Science
The unconscious : $b The fundamentals of human personality, normal and abnormal
Prince, Morton
Psychology, Pathological; Subconsciousness
Third; _the coconscious figures in the calculation experiments do not
constitute the whole of the process_. They would seem to be the product
of some deeper underlying process. The figures “kept coming and going”
and seemed to “add themselves.” There was no conscious process that
related the figures to one another and determined whether the problem
was one of addition or multiplication—as is the case when we do a
calculation consciously; that is to say, of course, if the hypnotic
personality remembered the whole of the conscious calculation. It was
more as if there was an underlying unconscious process which did the
calculation, certain final results of which appeared as dissociated
states of consciousness, i.e., figures which did not enter the personal
consciousness. The process reminds us of the printing of visible letters
by the concealed works of a typewriter; or of visible letters of an
electrically illuminated sign appearing and disappearing according as
the concealed mechanism is worked. This interpretation is in entire
accord with the spontaneous occurrence of the coconscious images during
the everyday life of these subjects. These images were pictorial
representations of antecedent thoughts and seemed to be the products or
elements of these thoughts apparently functioning as underlying
unconscious processes. Likewise, in post-hypnotic suggested actions, I
have not been able to obtain memories of coconscious thoughts directing
the actions, but only the images described. These behave as if they were
the product of another underlying process determining the action.
Inferences of this sort are as compulsory as the inference that the
illumination of a sensitive plate observed in the study of
radio-activity must be due to the bombardment of the plate by invisible
particles emitted by the radio-active substance. These particles and the
process which ejects them can only be inferred from the effects which
they produce. So, in the above observations, it would seem as if the
coconscious figures, and other images involved, must be ejected as
conscious phenomena by an underlying process. There is no explicit
evidence that this is conscious.
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