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ight hand, the Unconscious the right side of the head and controls the left hand. It also brings to light a very curious, not to say appalling, fact, viz., the immense moral difference there may be between the Conscious and the Unconscious Personalities. In the American case Bourne was a character practically identical with Brown. In this F

ing steadily for a couple of months. Then suddenly he had a hystero-epileptic attack-fifty hours of convulsions and ecstasy-and when he awoke from it he was no longer paralysed, no longer acquainted with tailoring, and no longer virtuous. His memory was set back, so to say, to the moment of the viper's appearance, and he could remember nothing since. His character had become violent, greedy, quarrelsome, and his tastes were radically changed. For instance, though he had before the attack been a total abstainer, he now not only drank his own wine, but stole the wine of the other patients. He escaped from Bon

t his peculiarities have in great part disappeared. I must, however, for clearness sake, use the prese

antly haranguing any one who will listen to him, abusing his physicians, or preaching-with a monkey-like impudence rather than with reasoned clearness-radicalism in politics and atheism in religion. He makes bad jokes, and if any one

ort were familiar with the efficacy of the contact of metals in provoking transfer of hysterical hemiplegia from one side to the other. They tried various metals in turn on Louis V. Lead, silver

issued from the crisis of transfer with its minute of anxious expression and panting breath, he might fairly be called a new man. The restless insolence, the savage impulsiveness, have wholly disappeared. The patient is now gentle, respectful, and mode

he knows nothing of Rochefort, and was never a soldier in his life. 'Where are you then, and what is the d

se which he remembers when his right side is paralysed), periods during which, so far as now can b

out of a series of six or more through which he can be made to pas

ression gentle and timid, but ask him where he is, and you will find that he has gone back to a boy of fourteen, that he is at St. Urbain, his first reformatory, and that his memory embraces his years of childhood, and stops short on the very day on which

ding to the side which is paralysed, the man is a savage reprobate or a decent modest citizen. The man seems born again when the steel touches his r

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uite as remarkable, because it illustrates the extent to which the Su

ing daily attacks of several hours' duration. She was also devoid of the sense o

tate; but that state was deeper than before. She no longer made any sign whether of assent or refusal when she received

, in her waking state she was told (in the tone which in her hypnotic state signified command) to get up and walk about, she walked about, but to judge from her conversation she supposed her

he said to the entranced subject before awakening her, "you will go to sleep again." There was no sign that the sleeper understood or heard; and when she was awakened the events of the trance were a blank to her as usual. She began talking to other persons. M. Janet, at some little distance, clapped his hands feebly together five times. Seeing that she did not seem to be attending to him, he went up to her and said, "Did you hear what I did just now?" "No; what?" "Do you hear this?" and he clapped his hands once more. "Yes, y

itself, if such existed, or of determining its relation to other phenomena of Lucie's trance. And here it was that automatic writing was successfully invoked; here we have, as I may say, the first fruits in France of the new attention directed to this se

istent effect, and while the awakened Lucie continued to chatter as usual with other persons, her Unconscious Self wrote brief and scra

wer one must hear." "Certainly." "Then how do you manage?" "I don't know." "There must be somebody that hears me." "Yes." "Who is it?" "Not Lucie." "Oh, some one else? Shall we call her Blanche?" "Yes, Blanche." Blanche, h

psychical manifestations of which Lucie experienced only the results. A striking instance of thi

he only knew that she had had a severe fright at seven years old, and an illness in consequence. Now, during these "crises" Lucie (except, presumably, in the periods of unconsciousness which form a prett

e terrifying incident in her childish life which had originated the confused hallucinations which recurred during the attack. She could not explain the recrudescence o

r complimentary movements, the corresponding facial expression, followed just as they usually follow in such experiments. Thus, if M. Janet clenched her fist in the cataleptic state, her arm began to deal blows, and her face assumed a look of anger. The suggestion which was given through the so-called muscular sense had operated in a subject to whom the muscular sense, as tested in other ways, seemed to be wholly lacking. As soon as Adrienne could be communicated with, it was possible to get somewhat nearer to a solution of this puzzle. Lucie was thrown into catalepsy; then

p when he clapped his hands, or to answer his questions in writing, but to cease having headaches, to cease having convulsive attacks, to recover normal sensibility, and so on. Adrienne obeyed, and even as she obeyed the rational command, her own Undine-like identity

at we can find in other cases only inferentially, an intelligence manifesting itself continuously by written answers, of purport quite outside

ling character so frequent in automatic script. Again, Adrienne remembered certain incidents in Lucie's childhood which Lucie had wholly forgotten. Once more-and this last suggestion points to positive rather than to negative conclusions-Adrienne possessed a faculty, the muscular sense, of which Lucie was devoid. I am an

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s been superseded by the Sub-conscious. It was as if instead of "Adrienne" being submerged by Lucie, "Adri

ed disposition is exchanged for a cheerful activity which enables her to attend to her children and to her shop much more effectively than when she was in the état béte, as she now calls what was once the only personality that she knew. In this case, then, which is now of nearly thirty years' standing, the spontaneous readjustment of nervous activities-the second state, no memory of which remains in the first state-has resulted in an improvement pro