From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



or as data, but regarding them from a strictly philosophic 

 point of view. 



From this standpoint what lesson can and ought to 

 be drawn ? Surely that the subconscious everywhere 

 outstrips and transcends the categories of sensorial and 

 cerebral capacity; that in all essentials it is beyond all 

 representations, 1 outside even the category of repre- 

 sentations, that is to say, outside Space and Time. This 

 will be brought out with all necessary clearness in 

 a future chapter. 



But before doing this it is needful to examine the 

 attempts that have been made to reconcile the phenomena 

 of the Unconscious with the classical concept of the 

 Self as a synthesis of states of consciousness and as a 

 product of cerebral activity. 



1 ' Representation ' is used by Dr Geley in the strictly philosophical 

 sense ; " the energy of the mind in holding up to contemplation what 

 it is determined to represent." Sir William Hamilton, Metaphysics, xxiv. 

 [Translator's note.] 



