From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



'Therefore, there is no strict parallelism between the 

 biological and the -psychological sequence ; the latter transcends 

 the former? 1 

 There is a final and important argument. 



' Education, from first sensations up to the 

 grouping of ideas, consists (as to its anatomical and 

 physiological conditions) in the association of numer- 

 ous elements, none of which is in itself, properly 

 speaking, psychological, but which are, in fact, 

 exceedingly complex movements. In reference to 

 them psychological activity appears indeed as a 

 synthesis, but this synthesis is different from the elements 

 of which it is composed, it is other than those elements. 1 * 



The arguments we have now reviewed displace the 

 old absolute psycho-physiological parallelism. They 

 displace it even without going outside current common- 

 place psychology, which is to-day known to be only a 

 part, and the less important part, of individual psychism. 

 We have kept our summary of the difficulties of the 

 classical theory within the limits of its own method, 

 by keeping to the analysis of elementary facts. We shall 

 now see what results are 'given by the opposite method 

 adopted in this work; we shall consider first the highest 

 and most complex qualities of the psychological being, 

 namely, its subconscious psychism. 



My italics, G. G. 



