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entirely subjected to that of the operator,—he — dissented. All 
the phenomena of the e “ biologized” state, when a ntively examined, 
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exert upon the actions of the: body. Thus, the operator asserts that 
the ‘* subject” cannot rise from his chair, or open his eyes, or continue 
to hold a stick; and the “subject” thereby becomes so completely - 
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are entirely under the guidance of his ideas. So again, when he is 
__ made to drink a glass of water, and is assured that it is coffee, or wine, 
or milk »—that assurance, delivered i in a decided tone, makes a stronger 
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smell, or sight; and not being able to judge and compare, he yields 
himself u to the “ dominant idea.” The same is true of what has been 
designated ‘control over the memory.” The subject is srl that 
he cannot remember the most familiar thing, his own name for e 
ple; and he is prevented from doing so, not by the will of the operston 
but by the conviction of the impossibility of the mental act, whic 
grosses his own mind, and by the want of that voluntary control over 
the direction of his thoughts which alone can enable him to recall the 
desiderated oe The same with the abolition of the sense of 
personal iden 
Now, ‘anes every one of these peculiar phenomena has its . 
in states of mind whose existence is passin, admitted. Thus, the 
complete subjection of the muscular power to o the “ dominant idea” 
precisely what is experienced in nightmare ; in which we are omcedink 
from moving so much as a finger, notwithstanding a strong desire to do 
so, by the conviction that the least movement is impossible. The mis- 
interpretation of sensory impressions is Peieree seen in persons who 
are subject to a of mind, who make the most a mistakes as 
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Considered preéminently to intieats the power of the operator’s wi 
over his subject ; namely, the induction of dest, and its spontaneous 
sinks a given time previous ly ly ordained, or by the sound of 
