From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



grouping and the want of subordination to the central 

 direction of the Self. 



From the physical and physiological point of view 

 this disharmony, this want of affinity and concord between 

 the organs and the vital dynamism, explains all the 

 varied symptoms and morbid localisations of hysteria 

 anaesthesia, hyperaesthesia, cramps, paralysis, and 

 nutritive troubles. 



The symptoms of this neurosis are unstable and 

 changeable, just because they are not of organic origin 

 but result from imperfect regulating power of the vital 

 dynamism. 



From the psychological point of view, the disharmony 

 between the mentality and the Self and imperfect control 

 by the latter, explains all those psychic defects which 

 are so common and well known. The hysteric is usually 

 an ' inferior neuropath,' incapable of fulfilling his duties 

 an engineer who cannot control his machine. 



Suggestibility and ' pythiatism ' are consequences of 

 the feeble control of the Self; they are not the causes, 

 but the results, of the hysterical condition. 



6. DEMENTIA 



If we take one step farther and imagine a want of 

 equilibrium which is not merely relative but absolute 

 or nearly absolute a total or nearly total want of direction 

 we have dementia. 



Dementia is primarily anarchy of the mental elements, 

 on which the Self has no longer any action; not even 

 the limited, enfeebled, and intermittent control which 

 it still retains in the hysteric. 



What comes to pass when mental anarchy is firmly 

 established by the absence of control by the Self ? 



The psychic functions and faculties, the acquired 

 knowledge are intact but undirected. They may show 



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