Chapter 3

THE UNCONSCIOUS FACTOR.

Various views of the "inspired state." Its essential characteristics; suddenness, impersonality.--Its relations to unconscious activity.--Resemblances to hypermnesia, the initial state of alcoholic intoxication and somnambulism on waking.--Disagreements concerning the ultimate nature of unconsciousness: two hypotheses.--The "inspired state" is not a cause, but an index.--Associations in unconscious form.--Mediate or latent association: recent experiments and discussions on this subject.--"Constellation" the result of a summation of predominant tendencies. Its mechanism. 50