24G A. T. SCHOFIELlt, E.S<j., M.l)., KTC, ON 



'J'dcf, tlio psychic aiialog'ue of toiicli, is a faculty of "ancoii- 

 scions origin. 



The will itself may be imconsciovi.s. " The conscious aiid 

 unconscious wills are essentially disting-uislied by this, that 

 the idea which forms the object of will is conscious in the 

 one case, unconscious in the other."* 



" If it is desired further to distinguish the two kinds of will. 

 for conscious will language already offers the term exactly 

 covering the conception — free-will; while the Avord 'will' 

 must be retained for the general principle, Avhicli exists in us 

 all, miconscious will,"! "We may regard it as settled that the 

 laboratoiy of volition is hidden in the unconscious. That 

 we can only get to see the finished result, and that tin- 

 glances we succeed in throwing into the laboratory never 

 reveal those unconscious depths of the soul where occur the 

 reaction of the Avill on motives and its passage into definite 

 volition.'"! 



The discovery of tlie heantlfid, and the '•creation of the 

 beautiful by man proceed from unconscious processes whose 

 results the feeling and the discovery of the beautiful re])re- 

 sents in consciousness, and forms the starting point of fuithei* 

 (jonscious Avork which however at every stage needs more <n- 

 less the support of the unconscious."§ 



The ordinary artist does everything with conscious choice. 

 '^I'here is a lack of " divine frenzy, the powerful breath of the 

 unconscious, which appears to consciousness as higlier and 

 inexplicable suggestions which it is forced to aiiprehend as 

 facts, without ever being ;d)le to unravel their sour(;e.""|| 

 ''The difference between talent and genius is the difierence 

 between the conscious and the unconscious."*! 



Inxtiiict is not the result of conscious reflection, not a con- 

 sequence of bodily organization, not mere results of the 

 mechanical foundation of the organization ol' ihe brain, but 

 "the individual's own activity, springing from his inmost 

 nature and character."** 



The ethical element in man lies in the deepest night of tlu' 

 unconscious. " Consciousness may perhaps influence actioiis 



* Pliilosophy of tite Unconsrwvx, E. vnn Hartinmi, vol. i, p. '2')?,. 



+ Jhid, vol. u, ]). (>9. 



I JImL, vol. i, ]). 2H:j. 



§ Jhid., vol. i, )). 2m. 



il /hid., vol. i, i>. 278. 



*r J/rrrdt'fj/, K. Ril)()t, 1). 229. 



** I'liilosopiiij of the U ih'oiwions, E. von Unrtinaii, vnl. i, y. I \'^. 



