From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



organs are the objectified sexual instinct; the hands 

 which grasp, the feet which move, correspond to the 

 less urgent desires of the Will which they represent. 

 As the human form as a whole corresponds to the 

 human will as a whole, so the form of the individual 

 body (which is consequently very characteristic and 

 very expressive) corresponds to the individual modi- 

 fications of the will and to a particular character.' 



To this concept of the ideoplastic activity we have 

 only to add that the objectification of the essential 

 dynamo-psychism is not primarily and immediately an 

 objectification in matter. It is primarily mental. Then 

 the mental objectification is transferred into dynamic 

 objectification, and this again into organic representation. 



The passive ideoplasticity is the mental imprint 

 received from progenitors, and is the sum total of heredity. 

 It plays an important part in the building up of the 

 organism, because the directive will of the Self is not 

 powerful enough at the existing level of evolution to 

 modify the main physiological functions. The body 

 and the vital dynamism form a kind of lower self, having 

 a will of its own, over which the control of the higher 

 Self is only a partial and relative. 



The influence of the active ideoplasticity is none the 

 less the preponderant influence. It determines the 

 destiny and the purpose of the organism and adapts 

 human cerebration to its normal use. 



Deprived of this higher direction, the action of the 

 vital dynamism in highly evolved creatures, and especially 

 in man, may be perverted, warped, or weakened, and 

 may produce abortions and monsters. 



The embryonic growth of an organism is manifest 

 as a regular and normal ' materialisation,' while meta- 

 psychic materialisation is only an irregular and abnormal 

 ideoplastic growth. 



The building up of an organism, moreover, can occur 



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