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
Miss B. reverts on one occasion to a day, six years back, when she
received a psychical shock; the complexes of her personality of that day
are revived as if just lived, all the succeeding years being forgotten;
on another occasion she reverts to a day when she was living in another
city seven or eight years before.
M——l reverts to an early period of his life when he was living in
Russia, and forgets all since including even his knowledge of English.
B. C. A. on several occasions reverts to different epochs of her life
with complete amnesia for all after events. On each occasion she takes
up the thread of her mental life as if living in the past, and recites
the events as if just lived.
Likewise, after a subject reverts from the abnormal to the normal state,
after a short or long condition of altered personality, there may be a
complete amnesia for the abnormal epoch, and although now normal he
thinks it the same day on which dissociation occurred.
Thus, Miss O. develops a condition of dissociated personality lasting
six months during which, as it unfortunately happens, she falls in love
with a man whom she had never known in her normal state. At the end of
this period she “wakes up” with a complete loss of memory for the phase
of altered personality and, therefore, to find that her fiancé is
apparently a stranger to her (!).
The same amnesia in the normal state for prolonged epochs in which the
personality was altered was conspicuous in the case of Miss B. In
William James’ often-cited case of Ansel Bourne and Dr. E. E. Mayer’s
case of Chas. W. the subjects returned to their normal states with
complete amnesia for the abnormal epochs of two months and seventeen
years respectively.
After all, the common _amnesia for the hypnotic state after waking is
the same phenomenon_.
Such observations show the possible systematization of epoch complexes,
although the determining conditions are not as yet understood.
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