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could not be distracted, and only laughed at Prof. Janet's attempts 

 to give her suggestions. This new synthesis lasted only about 

 twenty minutes ; it was followed by a deep sleep of about fifteen 

 minutes, and then Lucie awoke in her former condition. 



At first, as I have said, Adrienne showed little spontaneity, 

 but as time went on she acquired memories and developed more 

 character. Once she got angry with Prof. Janet, and for some 

 time all the tokens that showed her presence automatic writing, 

 catalepsy, and suggestibility disappeared. When she was recon- 

 ciled they came back again. 



Adrienne existed after her first creation about six weeks. 

 Then Prof. Janet undertook to cure Lucie by suggesting against 

 her hysterical symptoms; little by little they disappeared, and 

 with them Adrienne faded out of existence. " At last," says Prof. 

 Janet, "one day I called upon Adrienne it was Lucie that re- 

 plied, laughing a good deal and asking whom I called Adrienne. 

 A few days later the hypnotic sleep, which had ceased to be inter- 

 esting, entirely disappeared, and it was found impossible to get 

 Lucie asleep by any means.'' 



For eight months Lucie was quite well. Then she had a 

 relapse and Adrienne reappeared. For five days she remained 

 evocable and then disappeared for the last time. 



Since that time Prof. Janet has verified with many other pa- 

 tients the conclusions which he reached in the case of Lucie, and 

 most of them have been confirmed in greater or less degree by 

 other investigators in France, Austria, England, and America. 

 But Lucie remains the best illustration of apparently simultane- 

 ous " double personality " that has yet been described. 



We can not be too cautious in trying to picture to ourselves 

 what the condition of this secondary system which called itself 

 Adrienne really was, just as we can not be too cautious in trying 

 to picture to ourselves the minds of the lower animals. It is much 

 easier to say what Adrienne was not than what she was. 



She was not a continuously existing, self-conscious being. 

 She did not exist, in all probability, before Prof. Janet questioned 

 the hand about the writer's name. She did not exist after 

 Prof. Janet had left Lucie. No one but he could evoke Adrienne. 

 Whenever he came into Lucie's presence a marked change came 

 over her she lost her vivacity, appeared subdued, almost timid, 

 and then Adrienne could be elicited. It would seem that Prof. 

 Janet was like a great magnet about which these dissociated sub- 

 conscious elements gathered in a sort of dream self, but in his 

 absence they again relapsed into their former incoherent con- 

 dition. 



What were they, then ? Can we form any conception of what 

 this " amorphous mind " is like ? 



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