From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



The solidarity of his superior psychism with his cerebral 

 psychism being absolute, all the activities of the former 

 are limited by the extent of the latter and restrained 

 within its conditions. 



Such an individual cannot be conscious of his latent 

 powers, nor of anything which concerns his higher 

 psychism. In him the products of higher inspiration 

 and of his brain are closely unified and make a harmonious 

 whole. His psychology is normal typical marked by 

 the equilibrium of his faculties and their regular output, 

 but also by their narrow limitations. 



These well-balanced individuals may be at very 

 different evolutionary levels. There are among them 

 many mediocrities, but also some very intelligent men. 

 Their intellectual output is regular and contains no 

 surprises. They never perceive any subconscious contri- 

 butions, these being too closely connected with the 

 results of voluntary effort. They know nothing of 

 intuition; they are never original. If they understand 

 art they are never artists in the higher sense of the word ; 

 still less are they inventors or creative. They have no 

 genius, and none of the higher kind of inspiration. 



Well-balanced minds play a useful part in science 

 and social life by their poise and the correctness of their 

 reasoning on ordinary matters ; they are also detrimental 

 by their hatred of innovation and their immovable 

 attitude. 



Their opinions are generally those of their surround- 

 ings. They do not seek to improve on these, and are 

 inclined to accept any prevalent idea, which seems to 

 them established by the mere fact that it is prevalent. 

 They are impervious to philosophy, or are satisfied with 

 a dull commonplace philosophy conformable to estab- 

 lished ideas. They tend strongly towards materialism, 

 for the close fusion of the constituent principles and 

 their limitation by matter do not allow them to look 

 beyond material things. That in them which is above 



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