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time past I have been working in an odd way ; it is no longer I 

 who am working, but only my hands. They get on pretty well, 

 but I have no part in what they do. When it is over I do not 

 recognize my work at all. I see that it is all right ; but I feel 

 that I am quite incapable of having accomplished it. If any one 

 said, It is not you who did that ! I would answer, True enough, it 

 is not I. When I want to sing, it is impossible to me ; yet at other 

 times I hear my voice singing the song very well. It is certainly 

 not I who walk ; I feel like a balloon that jumps up and down of 

 itself. When I want to write I find nothing to say ; my head is 

 empty, and I must let my hand write what it chooses, and it fi.lls 

 four pages, and if the stuff is silly I can not help it.' The curious 

 point is that in this fashion she produces some really good things. 

 If she makes up a dress or writes a letter, she sometimes shows 

 real talent, but it is all done in a bizarre way. She looks absorbed 

 in her work, but yet is unconscious of it ; when she lifts her head 

 she seems dazed, as if she were coming out of a dream, and 

 does not recollect what she has been doing. . . . Although she 

 still has activity, she has no longer the personal consciousness 

 of this activity, and her acts therefore can no longer be called 

 voluntary." 



I have now briefly analyzed the leading types of what is known 

 as double or multiple personality. Successive changes of person- 

 ality are demonstrated facts. That subconscious states of some 

 sort exist is also exceedingly probable. For the existence of 

 simultaneous personalities there is also good evidence, and in 

 some cases I am inclined to admit it. Yet I believe that we can 

 not be too careful in making use of these conceptions. While the 

 evidence upon which they are based is stong, it must not be for- 

 gotten that it is largely selected evidence, that multitudes of cases 

 remain for which these theories afford no adequate explanation, 

 and that the metaphysical basis upon which the theory itself rests 

 is far from finally established. While formulating theories, we 

 must not become theorists. 



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