From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



2. The existence of a centralising psychic direction 

 of these mental groups, since it is precisely the 

 failure and the want of this central direction 

 that is the basis and sine qua non for alter- 

 ations of personality and for the appearance of 

 secondary states. 



Jastrow says, ' When the dominant Self abandons 

 any considerable part of its sovereignty, it may be that 

 the organised activities are freed.' ... It is then seen 

 that ' the altered Self maintains relations so special, so 

 incomplete, and so indirect, with the normal Self, that 

 we must admit that the mind is dissociated. The psychic 

 autocracy is overthrown and gives place to an enfeebled 

 rule exercising power over a reduced area* 1 



To sum up : The real Self conditions and directs the 

 mental dynamo-psychism. 



Therefore that which is essential in the Self must 

 not be confounded with subordinate and secondary 

 states of consciousness. 



As in the organism, so in the mentality the per- 

 manent essence must be distinguished from temporary 

 ' representations.' The states of consciousness are but 

 representations of the Self. But the Self an individual- 

 ised portion of the universal dynamo-psychism cannot 

 be confounded with its representations. 



Moreover, there is a further proof of this assertion. 

 Facts show that there are in the Self capacities which 

 outrange the limits of states of consciousness and 

 dominate all its representations. 



Intuition and creative genius very greatly transcend 

 the intellectual faculties. In these there is nothing like 

 the linked sequences which mark logical deductions, 

 they are superior faculties, deriving evidently from the 

 divine essence of the Self. 



Still more obviously the supernormal psychic faculties, 

 and more especially lucidity (which is independent 



2 Italics are mine, G. G. 

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