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
It is true, as a study of the coconscious would show, that such
phenomena of anesthesia and unrecognized perceptions are dependent upon
a dissociation of consciousness and upon coconscious perception. But
this is a matter of mechanism with which we are not now concerned. The
point simply is that subconscious perceptions which never entered the
awareness of the personal consciousness may be conserved.
I will cite one more observation, one in which the reproduction was
through secondary translation, as we shall see later that it belongs to
a class which enables us to determine the nature of conservation.
B. C. A., actuated by curiosity, looked into a crystal and saw there
some printed words which had no meaning for her whatever and awakened no
memory of any previous experience. It was afterward found that these
words represented a cablegram message which she unconsciously overheard
while it was being transmitted over the telephone to the telegraph
office by my secretary in the next room. She had no recollection of
having heard the words, as she was absorbed in reading a book at the
time. The correctness of the visual reproduction is shown, not only by
automatic writing which remembered and recorded the whole experience,
but also by comparison with the original cablegram.
Again, in other experiments there appear, in the crystal, visions rich
in detail of persons whom she does not remember having seen, although it
can be proved that she actually has seen them.
The reproduction of subconscious perceptions and forgotten knowledge in
dreams, visions, hypnosis, trance states, by automatic writing, etc., is
interesting apart from the theory of memory. Facts of this kind offer a
rational interpretation of many well-authenticated phenomena exploited
in spiritistic literature. Much of the surprising information given by
planchette, table rapping, and similar devices commonly employed by
mediums, depends upon the translation of forgotten dormant experiences
into manifestations of this sort. In clinical medicine, too, we can
often learn, through reproductions obtained by special methods of
investigation, the origin of obsessions and other ideas which otherwise
are unintelligible.
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