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
Subconscious as an adjective used to qualify ideas is plainly equivalent
to coconscious ideas. This terminology I have found useful in keeping
the different classes of conceptual facts separate in my mind and I
believe it will prove to be equally useful to others. With the
conceptual facts clearly differentiated it will be generally easy to
recognize the various senses in which the terms are used when found in
the writings of others.
=The unconscious as a fundamental of personality.=—A survey of all the
facts and their relations, which I have outlined in the preceding
lectures, brings into strong relief the important principle that no
matter in what state complexes of ideas are formed, so long as they are
conserved, they become a part of our personality. They become dormant,
but, being conserved, they may under favorable conditions be awakened
and enter our conscious life. It matters not whether complexes of ideas
have been formed in our personal consciousness, or in a state of
hypnosis, in dreams, in conditions of dissociated personality, in
coconsciousness, or any other dissociated state. They all become parts
of ourselves and may afterwards be revived under favoring conditions,
whether volitionally, automatically, by artificial devices, by
involuntary stimuli, or other agencies. They may or may not be subject
to voluntary recall as recollections, but, so long as they form part of
our dormant consciousness as physiological neurograms, they belong to
the personal self. “After all,” as Miss B. used to say, and correctly,
referring to her different dissociated personalities, BI, B III, and
BIV, “after all, they are all myself.” It makes no difference in what
state an experience has occurred. A potential memory of it may persist
and may, in one way or another, be revived, no matter how or when it
originated.
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