A symposium on the subconscious

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ID11636186
AuthorsPierre Janet (Collège de France), Morton Prince
Year1907
Volume2
Issue2
Pages58-92
Publication date1907-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Abnormal Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0145-2339
PublisherAmerican Psychological Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1037/h0073250
OpenAlexW2023642567
LanguageEN
Citations received8

Y OU have set me quite a difficult task and one which 1 hardly feel capable of accomplishing to your entire satisfaction.You ask me to take a stand with regard to the metaphysical theories which are developing today and which seem to have for their point of departure the study of phenomena formerly described by me under the name of the "Subconscious."These studies, already old, since I published them between the years 1886 and 1889, do not permit me to take part in this serious quarrel; they have a much more restricted and much less ambitious range.While the researches of the present day, whether they have a spiritualistic or a materialistic tendency, attain to the summit of the highest metaphysics, my old studies, very modest as they were, simply endeavored to throw light upon, describe and classify certain phenomena of pathological psychology.Disturbances of the notion of personality are freely met with in psychiatric studies.One finds not only disturbances in the conception which patients make of their own person, when they pretend to be a king or an animal, but also one very often meets with curious alterations in the assimilation, the incorporation of such and such a phenomenon with that feeling they have of their own person.Indeed, it is undeniable that there takes place in us a certain classing of psychologic phenomena; some are attached to the group of the phenomena of the outside world, others are grouped about the idea of our person.This idea, whether exact or not, which is probably in a great measure a product of our social education, becomes a center about which we range certain

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