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The unconscious : $b The fundamentals of human personality, normal and abnormal
Prince, Morton
Psychology, Pathological; Subconsciousness
For further details, see Lecture VI, p. 169.
Footnote 49:
Prince: Mechanism and Interpretation of Dreams, _Jour. of Abn.
Psych._, October-November, 1910.
Footnote 50:
If, lacking this knowledge of the data, any one chooses to insist that
it was not the conserved residua of previous thoughts, but of the
dream itself (the only alternative entertainable explanation) which
induced, _after waking_, the hallucinatory phenomena and blindness, we
still fall back upon the same principle, namely, that of the
subconscious functioning of conserved residua of a conscious
experience producing a physiological (and psychological) effect.
Footnote 51:
According to recent researches of Sidis in conjunction with Kalmus,
and later with Nelson (The Nature and Causation of the Galvanic
Phenomenon, Psychological Review, March, 1910) similar galvanic
phenomena under similar conditions may be caused by the _generation_
of an electric current within the body.
Footnote 52:
The test word (e. g., boat, stone, hat, etc.) of course represents an
idea which may have various associations in the mind of the subject.
Footnote 53:
Morton Prince and Frederick Peterson: Experiments in Psycho-Galvanic
Reactions from Coconscious (Subconscious) Ideas in a Case of Multiple
Personality, _Journal of Abnormal Psychology_, April-May, 1908.
LECTURE V
NEUROGRAMS
We have got as far as showing that the phenomena of memory to be
intelligible require that ideas which have passed out of mind must be
conserved through some sort of residuum left by the original experience.
But this as a theory of memory is incomplete; the question remains,
_How_, and in what form, manner, or way, are they conserved? In other
words, What is the nature of the residuum? Is it psychical or
physical?[54] As we have seen, from the fact that something outside of
the personal consciousness can manifest memory of a given experience at
the very same moment when the personal consciousness has amnesia for
that experience, we are compelled to infer that conservation must be by
a medium, psychological or physiological, capable of being excited as a
specific secondary process. Now this medium must be either an
undifferentiated “Psyche” or specific differentiated residua. In the
former case we postulate a concept of a transcendental something beyond
experience and of which, like the soul after death, we have and can have
no knowledge. To this concept of an undifferentiated Psyche we shall
return presently.
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