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of consciousness, e. g., in slips of the tongue, mistakes of spelling, 

 and so on: because the energy bottled in the vegetative system 

 tends to erupt into the consciousness into which it would 

 ordinarily flow. 



In the evolution of the mind, there have been elaborated de- 

 vices to protect it against the vegetative apparatus. Conscious- 

 ness, or awareness, must be accepted as a fundamental, primal 

 1 ike protoplasm. Consciousness and protoplasm may be the 

 complementary sides of the same coin. Whatever the truth, the 

 fact stands out that the oldest, deepest, most potent conscious- 

 ness is that of the traditionally despised lowest organs, the vege- 

 tative organs, the heart and lungs, stomach and intestines, the 

 kidneys and the liver, and so on, their nerves, e. g., the solar 

 plexus, and the glands of internal secretion. They invented and 

 elaborated muscle, bone and brain to carry out their will. Evo- 

 lution has been in the direction of a greater perfection of the 

 methods of carrying out their will. Their consciousness, working 

 upon the growing and multiplying brain cells, has created what 

 we call self-conscious mind. 



Mind, reacting upon its creator, has, in a sense, come to domi- 

 nate them, because it has become the meeting ground of all the 

 energy-influences seething and bubbling in the organism, and so 

 developed into the organ of handling them as a whole, their 

 Integrating-Executive. But just the same and all the time, the 

 underlying consciousness of the viscera and their accessories 

 stand as the powers behind the throne, but as what we have now 

 learned to speak of, in relation to the Mind, as the Unconscious. 



Psychopathology of Everyday Life 



To sum up these relations of the viscera, the endocrine-^. 



nd the mind, it may be stated as a far-reaching 

 generality for the understanding of human life: that ehai 

 and conduct aj ng in 



the veget pparatus, primarily andoera 



birth, and secondarily the org 



has learned to a whole, as eon dt of 



nefa a reaction as a whole tends to belai liatarban 



energy, SO as to n aiilibriuin, or sense of 



harmony and n disapj 



t lynth of the psy- 



chanalyste, the behaviourists, and the students of the in 



