DOUBLE PERSONALITY. 71 



lie tried writing, and found, to his delight, that when her anaes- 

 thetic hand was hidden from her sight by a screen he could get 

 answers to his questions in writing without Lucie's knowing that 

 it was writing at all, much less what it said. At first it showed 

 little or no spontaneity, and unless the content of the writing was 

 determined by his suggestions it was limited to " Yes," " No," and 

 " I don't know." He asked for a letter, and it wrote an apologetic 

 refusal of an invitation ; he asked it to solve little arithmetical 

 problems, and if they were not very difficult it did so correctly 

 while Lucie was talking or reading aloud or otherwise occupied. 

 But there was never a sign of a self-conscious personality in the 

 narrower sense of the word. The writer did not claim to be 

 anybody in particular, and volunteered no information about 

 herself. 



One day Prof. Janet undertook to inquire into this point, as 

 follows : " Do you hear me ? " " No." " But you must, to an- 

 swer." " Of course." " Then how do you do it ? " "I do not 

 know." " There must be some one who hears me ? " " Yes." 

 " Who, then ? " " Some other person than Lucie." " Ah, some 

 one else. Shall we name her Blanche ? " " Yes, Blanche." But 

 Lucie abhorred the name Blanche, and when the writing was 

 shown to her she flew into a rage and tried to tear it up. So the 

 name was changed. " What will you have ? " asked Prof. Janet. 

 " No name." " But it will be more convenient." " Very well, 

 Adrienne." " Well, Adrienne, do you hear me ? " " Yes." 



It seems probable that the notion of being a person was first 

 suggested by Prof. Janet. However that may be, thenceforward 

 all these automatic phenomena seemed to become crystallized 

 about the name Adrienne and the voice and touch of Prof. Janet, 

 and were readily evoked by him but by no one else. 



Having thus got access to the secondary system, the next point 

 was to determine what it comprised. In brief, it was found that 

 all Lucie had lost, whether spontaneously or by suggestion, Adri- 

 enne had, and, vice versa, whatever Adrienne got, whether spon- 

 taneously or by suggestion, Lucie lost. 



Lucie had lost her sense of touch, but Adrienne's was perfect. 

 Suggestions given through the sense of touch were executed, but 

 made no impression upon Lucie's consciousness ; Adrienne claimed 

 to experience the corresponding mental states. Prof. Janet 

 clinched the left fist, and it struck out ; he then asked the right 

 hand, " What are you doing ? " " I am furious." " With whom ? " 



" With F ." " Why ? " "I do not know, but I am angry." 



Then he unclasped the fist and put the fingers to the lips the 

 lips smile and the fingers throw kisses. " Adrienne, are you still 

 angry ? " " No, it is gone." " And now ? " "I am in a good 

 humor." " And Lucie ? " " She knows nothing she is asleep." 



