The unconscious

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In the field of pathology, memory, through its perversions, takes part in and helps to determine the form of a variety of disturbances such as obsessions, impulsions, tics, habi...

However that may be, the point is not essential, for the minute description, by a special technic, of the furnishings of a room which had not been seen since childhood, a matter...

When put into hypnosis, however, the memory assumes a different character. She is taken back in imagination to the scene of the accident. Once more the train is entering the sta...

I have directed your attention up to this point to the conservation of experiences which at the time of their occurrence, although lost beyond voluntary recall, for the most par...

The following is an instance of the same phenomenon obtained by tapping without the use of previous suggestion in hypnosis: subject B. C. A. One of the hypnotic states, b, was w...

Mental experiences formed in states of _alcoholic intoxication_ without delirium may be conserved as dormant complexes. Dr. Isador Coriat,[43] in his studies of _alcoholic amnes...

=Similar residual processes underlying post-hypnotic phenomena.=—Conserved experiences which give rise to more complicated secondary elaboration may be observed in suggested pos...

In the second place, these ideas come and go in the same fashion as do those which make up the content of the main personal consciousness; and many are constantly recurring to b...

”_The specific elementary accumulators_ (previously termed specific potential elements) are thus susceptible now of receiving a third name, namely, that of _mnemonic elements_."...

=Recollection.=—This is as good a place as any other to call attention to a certain special form of memory. Recollection and memory are not synonymous terms. We are accustomed t...

=The intrinsic nature of subconscious processes.=—Janet further brought forward indisputable evidence showing that in hysteria these subconscious processes are real coconscious...

An analysis of these different observations shows, first, that the post-hypnotic phenomena—calculations (a) and actions (b)—were performed by a subconscious process. Of this the...

The validity of the evidence of memory as applied to subconscious processes needs to be carefully weighed. It is a question of method, and if the method is fallacious all conclu...

If, then, in any case a causal relation between an antecedent wish and its dream fulfilment exists, it follows that there must be some link between that wish experienced in the...

Let me also point out that the material, that is, the elements out of which this dream was constructed (indicated by the words italicized), was found in the thoughts of the drea...

=Physiological memory and processes.=—There is one phase of the unconscious which for the sake of completeness ought to be touched upon here, particularly as it is of considerab...

It is reconcilable, however, with psychic monism. According to this doctrine it is not a question of parallelism at all. There is only one process—the psychical. The physical br...

More than this, and more important, there is considerable evidence going to show that conserved experiences functioning as subconscious processes take part in and determine the...

L. E. W., forty-nine years of age, farmer and lawyer by occupation, a man of strenuous disposition, broke down under stress and strain with severe but common symptoms of mental...

When the epochal amnesia follows psychical trauma the condition of memory is apt to present the following peculiarity and the personality may be altered. When the epoch is the i...

This same principle underlies what is called the “social conscience,” the “civic” and “national conscience,” patriotism, public opinion, what the Germans call “Sittlichkeit,” th...

That meaning—just as much as the sensory image of an object—is part of the conscious content of an idea becomes apparent at once, the moment the setting becomes altered and an o...

Ibid., p. 152. It is interesting to note that statistics show that traumatic psychoses following railway accidents are comparatively rare among trainmen, while exceedingly commo...

Now, according to my observations, we find in the marginal zones of the content of consciousness conscious elements which in particular cases may even give a hitherto unsuspecte...

I suggest to B. C. A. in hypnosis ideas of well-being, of recovery from her infirmity; I picture a future roseate with hope, stimulate her ambitions with suggestions of duties t...

Dormant _dream_ complexes may give rise to similar phenomena. In a minor way everyone, probably, has experienced the persistence of the emotional effects of a dream after waking...

On examining a dream it was found to be peculiar in one respect: It was not an imaginative or fantastic composition, but a detailed and precise living over again of the scenes a...

In view of the foregoing we can now appreciate a fallacy which has been too commonly accepted in the interpretation of therapeutic facts. It is quite generally held that it is a...

It is probable that all the _ductless glands_ (thyroid, suprarenal, etc.), are likewise under the influence of the emotions. The suprarenal glands secrete a substance which in a...

It is generally agreed that emotions proper (as distinguished from other affective states) may be divided into those which are primary (anger, fear, disgust, etc.), and those (j...

The following case is instructive not only because of the lasting dissociation of this instinct as a result of a conflict, but because the dissociation was volitionally and inte...

3. _In entire accordance with the experimental results are certain pathological disturbances_ which from time to time interrupt the course of everyday life of this subject, O. N...

In the case of an intense fear it is common observation that this contraction may reach a high degree. In the excitement of a railroad accident the frightened passenger does not...

Again, when amnesia results it may cover a past epoch—retrograde amnesia—without obvious reason for the chronological line of cleavage. In short the suppression by dissociation...

It is evident, that, theoretically, if antecedent conditions have prepared the emotional soil, and if an emotional complex, an intense sentiment, or instinct should be aroused b...

Amongst these acquired unitary systems there are certain ones which are of preëminent importance for the personality in the determination of mental behavior. I refer to those co...

This subject has herself written at my request two introspective analyses of her own case, one by the normal personality and the other by the secondary personality. These analys...

The “shock” when more deeply analyzed proved to be the excitation of certain emotions which, besides a mild degree of fright, were intense repugnance or disgust. They were a rea...

On the other hand, the second trait was equally strong, namely, unreasonably high moral ideals, so high even in the little every day affairs of life that only a strong stern fan...

The shock I received was of an intensely emotional nature. It brought to me, suddenly, the realization that my position in life was entirely changed, that I was quite alone, and...

Another and what will seem a strange peculiarity of B was the feeling that she was not the mother of her child. “I am not his mother,” she would say. “He is not my son”—“_I_ nev...

Now it should be noted that these latter were the traits of the subject C during the preceding four-year period of stress and strain, and the succeeding neurasthenic period, and...

We may now bring this study of human personality to a close, incomplete as it is. We have not by any means exhausted all the factors of personality, but, guided by practical con...

=Fanatics=, 279. =Fear neurosis= due to subconscious ideas, 379. =Feeling=, may emerge from subconscious complexes, 383–386. =Fixed idea= (imperative), 278–279. =Fringe (of cons...