From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



in the individual ' representations ' of the creative 

 dynamo-psychism which differ from the organism itself, 

 are superior to that organism and condition it, in place 

 of being conditioned by it. 



In fact, as we shall show, everything occurs as if 

 the essential dynamo-psychism objectified itself to create 

 the individual, not in one unique representation the 

 organism but in a series of graded representations 

 successively conditioning one another. 



In treating of physiology we have seen that the 

 organism is directed by an organising, directing, and 

 centralising dynamism able to act outside the organism, 

 to disintegrate it and reconstitute it in new and distinct 

 forms. Therefore we can, and should, conclude that 

 the organic representation is itself conditioned by a 

 higher representation the vital dynamism. 1 



Physiology, considered by itself alone, does not 

 admit of any other inference. 



But the study of the psychology of the individual 

 allows of new and larger ideas. 



These ideas may be summed up as follows. 



The semblances, according to which the psycho- 

 logical individuality would seem to be merely the sum 

 of the consciousness of its neurons and its cerebral 

 psychism, are false. 



In reality the cerebral psychism, like that of the 

 whole organism, has its origin, its ends, and its most 

 intimate conditions of function, in a superior dynamo- 

 psychism, which is, for the most part, subconscious. It 

 has been demonstrated that in the psychological indi- 

 viduality there is a superior psychism independent of the 

 functioning of the nerve-centres and free of all organic 

 contingencies, and that this superior psychism forms 

 the very foundation of the living being; it centralises 

 and directs the psychic whole; it binds together all 



1 Schopenhauer admitted the existence of a ' vital force ' but he did 

 not make it a distinct and superior objectification. 



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