From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



I. THE CONSCIOUS AND THE UNCONSCIOUS INTER- 

 PENETRATE AND MUTUALLY CONDITION EACH OTHER 



To consider the Unconscious first: 



In the analytical study of its constituent elements 

 we find some that are innate, which we shall consider 

 further on, and some that are acquired. These latter 

 were at first conscious; then they passed from the 

 field of consciousness into subconsciousness and became 

 cryptomnesic. Part of the subconscious cryptomnesia 

 is made up of former states of consciousness. There 

 is, therefore, a current setting continually from the 

 conscious to the unconscious. 



Let us now consider the Conscious: 



In the analytical study of its constituent elements 

 we found that there are acquired elements which we 

 know well, and innate elements which are more obscure. 

 These latter are at first subconscious, then they pass 

 from the field of subconsciousness and become conscious; 

 from being cryptopsychic they become psychic. 



Thus the very structure of the conscious being his 

 essential character is made up of subconscious capacities. 



The conscious psychism is therefore in main part 

 constituted by the subconscious which conditions and 

 directs it. There is therefore a continuous current 

 setting from the unconscious to the conscious. 



In fine, there is a double, reciprocal, and continuous 

 influence from the unconscious to the conscious, and vice 

 versa a complete interpenetration. 



Not only is there no impassable abyss, but the 

 connection is close and direct. 



In conditioning the conscious the unconscious 

 partly loses its character of unconsciousness, and acts 

 not as unconsciousness but as a cryptoid consciousness, 

 sometimes active, sometimes latent. 



In its turn the conscious partly conditions the 



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