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you rescue them from their ' dissociated ' and split-off con- 

 dition, and make them rejoin the other sensibilities and 

 memories — she is a different person. As said above (p. 203), 

 the hypnotic trance is one method of restoring sensibility 

 in hysterics. But one day when the hysteric anaesthetic 

 named Lucie was already in the hypnotic trance, M. Janet 

 for a certain reason continued to make passes over her for 

 a full half-hour as if she were not already asleep, The re- 

 sult was to throw her into a sort of syncope from which, 

 after half an hour, she revived in a second somnambulic con- 

 dition entirely unlike that which had characterized her 

 thitherto— ^different sensibilities, a different memory, a dif- 

 ferent person, in short. In the waking state the poor young 

 woman was ansestiietic all over, nearly deaf, and with a 

 badly contracted field of vision. Bad as it was, however, 

 sight was her best sense, and she used it as a guide in all 

 her movements. With her eyes bandaged she became en- 

 tirely helpless, and like other persons of a similar sort 

 whose cases have been recorded, she almost immediately 

 fell asleep in consequence of the withdrawal of her last 

 sensorial stimulus. M. Janet calls this waking or primary 

 (one can hardly in such a connection say 'normal ') state by 

 the name of Lucie L In Lucie 2, her first sort of hypnotic 

 trance, the anaesthesias were diminished but not removed. 

 In the deeper trance, ' Lucie 3,' brought about as just de- 

 scribed, no trace of them remained. Her sensibility became 

 perfect, and instead of being an extreme example of the 

 ' visual ' type, she was transformed into what in Prof. 

 Charcot's terminology is known as a motor. That is to 

 say, that whereas when awake she had thought in visual 

 terms exclusively, and could imagine things only by remem- 

 bering how they looked., now in this deeper trance her 

 thoughts and memories seemed to M. Janet to be largely 

 composed of images of movement and of touch. 



Having discovered this deeper trance and change of 

 personality in Lucie, M. Janet naturally became eager to 

 find it in his other subjects. He found it in Kose, in Marie, 

 and in Leonie ; and his brother, Dr. Jules Janet, who was 

 interne at the Salpetriere Hospital, found it in the celebrated 

 subject Wit . . o . whose trances had been studied for years 



