The unconscious : $b The fundamentals of human personality, normal and abnormal — John Shaqi
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
This childhood episode and the furnishings of the room were completely
forgotten by B. C. A. in the sense that they could not be voluntarily
recalled. Even after reading the script she could not remember them. She
had not seen the room since she was six years of age, the family having
removed at that time from the town in which the incident took place. As
to the accuracy of the “automatic” account and the possibility of
fabrication, the description of the room has been corroborated by the
independent and written testimony of an older member of the family. It
was not possible to confirm the incident of the kitten as there were no
witnesses. This portion of the account, therefore, cannot be proved not
to be a fabrication, but I have never known a fabricated statement to be
made in this subject’s automatic script, and I have obtained from her a
large number of statements of different kinds in the course of several
years’ observation.
However that may be, the point is not essential, for the minute
description, by a special technic, of the furnishings of a room which
had not been seen since childhood, a matter of some thirty-five years,
and which were totally forgotten, is a sufficient demonstration of the
principle of conservation of conscious experiences that cannot be
voluntarily recalled. The reproduction of the conscious experience by
automatic writing was, of course, an act of memory effected by a special
device, and this fact compels us to postulate the conservation of the
experience during this long period of time, notwithstanding that the
experience could not be recalled voluntarily. Although the conserved
experience could not be awakened into memory by voluntary processes of
the personal consciousness it could be so awakened by an artificial
stimulus under artificial conditions.
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