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
There are two modes in which these calculations may be accomplished. In
a special and limited class of cases, where there is a large split-off
subconscious personality, or doubling of consciousness, the calculation
may be made entirely by this secondary subconscious self, in the same
fashion as it would be made by the principal personality if the problem
were given in the waking state. The subconscious personality will go
through each conscious step in the calculation in the same way.[47] In a
second class of cases the _calculations are worked out, apparently,
unconsciously_, without participation in the process by a subconscious
personality even when such exists. At most it would seem that isolated
numbers representing different steps in the calculation arise from time
to time coconsciously as a limited secondary consciousness (of which the
personal consciousness is unaware) until finally the figures of the
completed answer appear therein. The calculation itself appears to be
still another process outside both the personal and the secondary
consciousness. When the problem has been finished the answer is finally
given automatically. The whole process is too complicated to go into at
this time before we have studied the problems of the coconscious.[48] It
is enough to say that it is plain that the hypnotic experience—the
suggested problem—must be considered as some kind of specific residuum,
psychological or neural, and that this residuum must be one capable of
quite elaborate independent and subconscious intellectual activity
before finally becoming transformed into the final answer.
=Residual processes underlying dreams.=—When citing the evidence of
dreams for the conservation of forgotten experiences I spoke of one type
of dream as a symbolical memory. I may now add it is more than this; it
is a fabrication. The original experience or thought may appear in the
dream after being worked over into a fantasy, allegory, symbolism, or
other product of imagination. Such a dream is not a recurrent phase of
consciousness, but a _newly fabricated phase_. Further, analytical and
experimental researches go to show that the fabrication is performed by
the original phase without the latter recurring in the content of the
personal consciousness. The original phase must therefore have been
conserved in some form capable of such independent and specific
functioning, i.e., fabrication below the threshold of consciousness. For
instance:
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