From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



The last terms of these representations, whether 

 cells or thoughts, have a collective self-activity, a 

 dynamism proper to themselves, and the rudiments of 

 consciousness. Cells and thoughts are ' wholes,' frag- 

 mentary dynamo-psychisms, or monads. 1 The graded 

 ' hierarchies ' which exist between the primordial repre- 

 sentations exist also in principle between the secondary 

 representations. There is a hierarchy of the tissues and 

 a hierarchy of mental groups; and in the ' cadres ' of 

 primordial representations which are fixed and unchange- 

 able during the continuance of the life-group, there 

 exists a possibility of representations different from the 

 normal secondary representations. Thus, the tissues 

 and organs of the unique substance can be reconstituted 

 by metapsychic materialisation into new forms, and 

 the mental representations can be reconstituted into 

 secondary personalities by an abnormal psychism. 



This clears up the concept of the individual both 

 as such and in the many details of his physiology and 

 his psychology. 



We will now return to the analysis of the individual 

 and his representations, in detail. 



2. THE BODY AND THE VITAL DYNAMISM 



The body, which is the lower objectification and the 

 ideoplastic representation of the self, can no longer be 

 considered as playing the primordial and essential part 

 that was assigned to it by classical psycho-physiology. 



The known facts of supernormal physiology seem 

 to establish definitely that the diverse anatomical modali- 

 ties of the organism are reducible to a unique representa- 

 tion the primordial substance, which is not nervous, 



1 The celebrated experiments of Dr Carrel have positively demon- 1 

 strated this as regards the cells. 



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