From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



as a complete explanation. It is impossible to admit that 

 the secondary personality, the fraction of the Self, 

 should be as extensive, or even more extensive than the 

 total Self. The part is never equal to or greater than 

 the whole. 



Psychological disintegration must therefore be given 

 up as a general explanation of modifications of the 

 personality. 



It is not by saying that such and such a medium is 

 hysterical that we can understand the action at a distance 

 of her motor faculties and her intelligence, apart from 

 her muscles, her senses and her brain; or can acquire 

 the key to the difficult problem of supernormal psycho- 

 physiology involving the faculties of thought-reading, 

 lucidity, and ideoplastic or teleplastic action. 



There is this final argument against the theory of 

 morbidity it is contrary to the logic of facts. It is 

 contrary to the whole teachings of physiology to 

 declare that a diseased organ can produce results 

 superior to those of a healthy one, especially when 

 those results occur in a constant and semi-regular 

 manner. 



There is an untenable contradiction in declaring 

 physical power a function of health, and the mental 

 power of genius a function of disease. 



Is it now necessary to speak of other less general 

 theories of morbidity, restricted to one or another group 

 of subconscious phenomena ? It will suffice briefly to 

 indicate them. 



Azam explained the duplication of personality by 

 the separate action of the two cerebral lobes; a thesis 

 which, since the manifestation of multiple, and not 

 merely double, personalities in the same individual, has 

 only a historic interest. 



Dr Sollier explains hysteria by disjunctions among 

 the cerebral cells; all the symptoms of the neurosis 



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