From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



material limitations, is entirely unknown to them; and 

 they have no real philosophical curiosity. To them 

 everything is relatively simple because they avoid going 

 to the bottom of anything. 



2. ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY 



In place of the previously described harmonious 

 and well established synthesis and the perfect blend of 

 the different constituent principles of the Self, let us 

 now suppose an unstable synthesis, having some lack 

 of union or affinity between the ' cadres,' involving 

 a disharmony. The whole phenomena of abnormal 

 psychology result from such conditions. 



Where there is a break of equilibrium or want of 

 harmony between the body and the vital dynamism 

 which directs and conditions it, we have the origin of 

 all hysteriform manifestations of a physiological kind. 

 Where there is a break or want of harmony between 

 the mentality and the Self, we have the cause of all 

 kinds of mental instability from simple neuroses to 

 disintegration into multiple personalities, or dementia. 



Theoretically, want of equilibrium could only exist 

 between any two of the constituent principles of the 

 Self; but in fact no want of balance is partial only; by 

 reason of the essential solidarity of the individual group- 

 ing, every cause of disharmony between any two ' cadres ' 

 reacts on the whole of the groups forming the individual. 

 This is the reason why there is no hystero-physiological 

 disturbance without mental disturbance, and no mental 

 trouble without some hysteriform repercussion. 



The same causes which produce abnormal psychology 

 a want of perfect equilibrium between the constituent 

 principles of the individual grouping permits of the 

 isolated manifestation of one or other of these groups 

 by its ' secession * or even its ' exteriorisation/ 



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