[Footnote 222: Paul Lapie, _Revue Philosophique_, March 1894; Charles
_Méré, Mercure de France_, July 1903; Sully, Tannery, and Buccola also
considered that this is a factor in the explanation of the phenomenon.
Freud (_Zur Psychopathologie des Alltagsleben_, 1907, p. 122) brings
forward a modification of this theory, and believes that false recognition
is a reminiscence of unconscious day-dreams.]
[Footnote 223: For a minute and searching criticism of the theory of the
duplex brain, see especially four articles by Bonne in the _Archives de
Neurologie_, March-June 1907.]
[Footnote 224: 'Epilepsy' wrote Binns long ago (_Anatomy of Sleep_, 1845,
p. 431), 'is a disease which in some of its symptoms strongly resembles
abnormal sleep.' The conditions under which a paramnesic manifestation
may really replace an epileptic fit are well described by a literary man
with hereditary epilepsy whose case has been recorded by Haskovec of
Prague (_XIIIe. Congrès International de Médecine: Comptes Rendus_, vol.
viii., 'Psychiatrie' p. 125): 'One day at the theatre, under the influence
of the heat and perhaps the music, I experienced extreme excitement and
fatigue. I thought I was about to have an attack, and resisted with all
my strength, and it failed to take place. But I found myself in a strange
psychic state. On leaving the theatre I seemed to be dreaming. I saw and
heard everything and talked as usual. But everything seemed strange.
Nothing seemed to reach directly _me_ or to be a real impression, but
merely the automatic reproduction of something learnt, only I felt that I
had lived it all before and felt it; at that moment I simply seemed to be
observing it.']
[Footnote 225: _Centralblatt für Nervenheilkunde_, April 1886. In some
forms of insanity the false recognition of a person may become a fixed
delusion. This question has been studied by Albès in his Paris thesis, _De
I'Illusion de Fausse Reconnaissance_, 1906.]
[Footnote 226: E. Maitland, _Anna Kingsford_, vol. i. p. 3. Lalande
(_Revue Philosophique_, November 1893, p. 487) gives a precisely similar
case in a child.]
[Footnote 227: As quoted by Jastrow, _The Subconscious_, p. 248.]
[Footnote 228: Leroy, _Etude sur l'Illusion de Fausse Reconnaissance_,
1898, with forty-nine new observations. Leroy states, however (in declared
opposition to my view), that only a minority of his cases actually mention
fatigue.]
[Footnote 229: Heymans, 'Eine Enquête über Depersonnalisation und Fausse
Reconnaissance,' _Zeitschrift für Psychologie und Physiologie der
Sinnesorgane_, November, 1903; also a further paper in the same journal
confirming his conclusions, January 1906.]
[Footnote 230: Féré, 'Deuxième Note sur la Fausse Reconnaissance,'
_Journal de Neurologie_, 1905.]
[Footnote 231: Dromard et Albès, 'L'Illusion dit de Fausse
Reconnaissance,' _Journal de Psychologie Normale et Pathologique_,
May-June 1905.]
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