From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



muscular, or osseous, etc. . . . but is substance pure 

 and simple. 



This opens a vast field; and the study of organic 

 modality must be resumed on an altogether new basis. 



This organic substance is built up, developed, main- 

 tained, and repaired by the higher active principle 

 the vital dynamism which conditions it. 



In our study of physiological individuality we have 

 sufficiently demonstrated the reality of this vital dynamism 

 considered as independent of the organic complex, and 

 as an organising and directing principle. There is no 

 need to revert to this demonstration. 



The vital dynamism, moreover, has its own proper, 

 autonomous existence, shown by its limitations in time 

 and space, as distinct from the higher dynamo-psychic 

 principles in the individual, which are above time and 

 space. The apparent manifestations of its organising, 

 directive, and reparatory powers do not extend beyond 

 the birth and death of the organism which it conditions. 

 All available evidence shows that these manifestations 

 are restricted within narrow limits. 



In building up the organism the vital dynamism is 

 under a double influence: the influence of the higher 

 dynamo-psychism of the Self, and the hereditary 

 influence which seems to be linked to substance, i.e. 

 the active ideoplastic influence of the living being, and 

 the passive ideoplastic influence which is the mental 

 imprint given to the substance by progenitors. 



Schopenhauer had already conceived of the sequence 

 of organic edification as really proceeding from the 

 active ideoplastic power. 



' The different parts of the body must correspond 

 perfectly with the principal appetites by which the 

 Will is manifest; they must be their visible expres- 

 sions in being. The teeth, oesophagus, and intestinal 

 canal are hunger objectified; similarly the genital 



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