From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



cryptoid in their manifestations, the greater part of 

 which escape from the will, from the normal and regular 

 direction of the individual, and show their existence only 

 by bringing to light intermittent and apparently spon- 

 taneous results. 



This subconscious psychic activity, powerful in 

 itself, is reinforced by a still more potent and infallible 

 memory which leaves the feeble and limited conscious 

 memory far behind. 



By the side of the subconscious, the conscious 

 seems but a restricted, limited, and truncated psychism; 

 and even this psychism in its more important manifesta- 

 tions is conditioned by that cryptoid portion of the Self 

 which is its foundation. 



In a word, everything happens as though the 

 conscious were but a part, and that the smaller part, 

 of the Self; a part, moreover, entirely conditioned by 

 the more important part which remains cryptoid in the 

 ordinary circumstances of normal life. 



Such a declaration is an insoluble mystery for the 

 classical psychology which considers the Self to be the 

 sum of the consciousness of its neurons. Starting from 

 that concept it is impossible to understand either crypto- 

 psychism or cryptomnesia, or even to attempt any but 

 purely verbal explanations of them. 



2. THE IMPOTENCE OF CLASSICAL PSYCHOLOGY BEFORE 



CRYPTOPSYCHISM AND CRYPTOMNESIA 



From the point of view of individualist psychology 

 cryptopsychism appears nonsense. How can a part of 

 the mental activity escape from the control of the 

 individual or be accessible to him only irregularly and 

 fortuitously ? How can this involuntary and latent 

 mental activity be superior to that which is voluntary 

 and conscious ? How can all the higher powers, not 



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