From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



It has one good result; it diminishes the limitations 

 of the higher psychism, and permits it to appear. 



Thus the same factor is the source of psychological 

 morbidity, and of high psychic manifestations : it opens 

 the door to mental disorder, but also to crypto-psychism, 

 cryptomnesia, to the manifestations of genius, to intuition, 

 and to supernormal states. It allows the individual flashes 

 of insight into his real state and his destiny. 



These general notions being admitted, we can now 

 enter more fully on detail, and shall successively con- 

 sider : 



Neuropathic states; 



Neurasthenia; 



Hysteria; 



Dementia; 



Hypnotism; 



Alterations of personality; 



Intellectual work by the higher subconscious psychism 

 and genius; 



Crypto-psychism and cryptomnesia; 



The Supernormal; and 



Mediumship. 



All these abnormal psychological states have reciprocal 

 relations and inevitable points of contact, both by their 

 original nature and by their particular conditions. They 

 often interpenetrate. 



3. NEUROPATHIC STATES 



Instability in the equilibrium of the individual 

 grouping is at the root of all neuropathic states, causing 

 a relative and partial disorder which is the origin of all 

 nervous troubles. 



Contrariwise to what we have noted in the well- 

 balanced man, we find a want of homogeneity and 

 dependence between the different constituent principles. 



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