The unconscious : $b The fundamentals of human personality, normal and abnormalPrince, Morton
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The unconscious : $b The fundamentals of human personality, normal and abnormal
Prince, Morton
Psychology, Pathological; Subconsciousness
See also, “The Psychology of Sudden Religious Conversion,” _Journal
Abnormal Psychology_, April, 1906, and “The Dissociation,” 2nd Edit.,
pages 344 and 564; also James’ “The Varieties of Religious
Experience.”
Footnote 120:
Quoted by William James, page 343.
Footnote 121:
Some will undoubtedly read into Margaret’s vision a cryptic sexual
symbolism. To do so seems to me too narrow a view, in that it fails to
give full weight to other instincts (and emotions) and to appreciate
all the forces of human personality.
Footnote 122:
Lecture VI, pp. 169-172.
LECTURE VIII
THE UNCONSCIOUS
Our studies up to this point have led us to the general conclusion that
a large measure of the experiences of life are conserved or deposited in
what may be called a storehouse of neurographic dispositions or residua.
_This storehouse is the unconscious._ From this storehouse our conscious
processes draw for the material of thought. Further, a large amount and
variety of evidence, which we have briefly and incompletely reviewed,
has shown that conserved experiences may function without arising into
consciousness, i.e., as a subconscious process. To what extent such
processes take part in the mechanism of thought, contribute to the
formation of judgments, determine the point of view and meaning of
ideas, give direction to the stream and formulate the content of
consciousness, and in particular conditions, by a species of
translation, manifest themselves consciously as phenomena which we
designate abnormal constitute special problems which require to be
studied by themselves.
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