From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



seem, nevertheless, often if not always, to be directed 

 and formed outside that organism by entities distinct 

 from it. 



Will it then be said that to speak of ideoplasticity, 

 the modelling of matter by the Idea, and of an organising 

 dynamo-psychism is only to push the mystery further 

 back, not to solve it ? Will it be said that the enigma 

 is not less insoluble for being put back one step ? 

 Insoluble! By no means! 



The truth is, once more, that starting from the 

 elementary but essential data which have emerged from 

 our demonstration, the biological problem becomes 

 terribly complex. 



It is not related to physiology alone, but to psychology, 

 to all the natural sciences, and to philosophy. 



In a word, we are dealing no longer with Life alone, 

 but with the whole constitution and evolution of the 

 universe and the individual. 



Before closing the reference to physiology we must 

 enter upon a new and larger application of the synthetic 

 method. We must interrogate first psychology, and 

 then philosophy; the partial answers which we now 

 feel the want of, will be given by the general answer to 

 the great enigma, which is the aim of the present work. 



