The unconscious

• Absent-minded acts, conservation of, 50.
• Affective states, suppression of, by conflict, 455.
• Affects, see Emotion.
  • as conative force of ideas, 448.
  • linking of, to ideas fundamental for the pathology of the psychoneuroses, 449.
• Amnesia, continuous, 76;
  • episodic, 69;
  • epochal, 74.
  • from conflict, 71, 508–518.
  • theory of, following emotion, 509–514.
  • different forms of, following emotion, 514–517.
• Anxiety neurosis, emergence of emotion from a subconscious idea in, 382, 526.
• Association neuroses, 279, 527.
• Association psychoses, 278.

• Bashfulness as resultant of emotional conflict, 520.
• Behavior, acquired and instinctive, 237, 238;
  • conscious and unconscious, 230.

• Coconscious, the meaning of the, 247–254.
• Coconscious ideas, 168, 249, 254.
  • images, 169–171, 178, 208, 210, 374–376.
• Coconscious processes, auto-analysis of the content of, 171, 176.
• Complex of ideas, definition of a, 265.
• Complexes (systematized), dissociated, as phases of multiple personality, 299–302.
  • emotional, 267;
    • organization of emotional, 267–274.
    • systematized, 283:
  • Subject systems, 284;
    • alternation of, 288;
    • in dissociated personality, 288.
  • Chronological systems, 290;
    • differentiated by amnesia, 290–294.
  • Mood systems, 294;
    • regarded as a “side to one’s character,” 295;
    • illustrated by William Sharp, 296.
  • unconscious, organization of, in hypnotic and other dissociated conditions, 302–306;
    • in pathological states, 305;
    • in psychotherapeutics, 288–289, 304;
    • underlying the individual, social, civic and national conscience, public opinion, Sittlichkeit, etc., 307.
• Conflict, from conative force of emotion, 71, 454.
  • between conscious and subconscious sentiments, 460, 467–480;
  • in pathological conditions, 478;
  • under experimental conditions, 470–478.
• Conflict between emotional impulses, 454;
  • and sentiments, 455.
  • between two subconscious processes, 480.
  • general phenomena of, 488:
    • contraction of field of consciousness and personality, 489–492;
    • the hysterical state, 492;
    • systematized dissociation, 492–504;
    • systematized anesthesia, 492;
    • contracted personality, 496;
    • change of sentiments, 497;
    • alternation of personality, 501;
    • multiple personality, 502;
    • amnesia, 508–517;
    • subconscious traumatic memories, 517;
    • mental confusion, 519–521;
    • bashfulness, 520;
    • self-consciousness, 521.
  • suppression of instincts and affective states by, 454–458.
• Confusion (mental), as resultant of emotional conflicts, 519;
  • theory of, 520.
• Conservation, meaning of, 12.
  • a residuum of experience, 87.
  • considered as psychological residua, 110;
    • as coconscious ideas, 111;
    • as an undifferentiated psyche, 115;
    • as physical residua, 117;
    • as neural dispositions, 117.
  • evidence of, furnished by automatic writing, 15;
    • abstraction, 24;
    • hypnosis, 31;
    • hallucinatory phenomena, 39;
    • dreams, 43.
• Conservation, of absent-minded acts, 50
  • of forgotten artificial states, 62;
    • (hypnosis, 62).
  • of forgotten dreams and somnambulisms, 59.
  • of forgotten experiences of normal life, 15.
  • of forgotten pathological states, 68
    • (amnesia, 68;
    • deliria, 79;
    • fugues, 75;
    • intoxications, 80;
    • multiple personality, 77).
  • of inner life, 85.
  • of subconscious perceptions, 52.

• Decerebrate Animal, behavior of, 231.
  • intelligent behavior of, 240.
• Dissociation, due to conflict, 71, 469, 472–475, 480, 487, 488, 492–504.
  • amnesia following, 508.
  • effected by subconscious processes, 504.
  • laws of cleavage of personality in, 504–508.
  • systematized, 492–504;
    • principle involved, 493.
• Dreams, as a type of hallucinatory phenomena, 222.
  • physiological after-phenomena, 101.
  • subconscious process underlying, 196–213.
  • symbolism in, 200, 202.

• Emotion, see Affects.
  • amnesia, as resultant of, 514–517.
  • emergence of, from subconscious ideas, 382–386, 387–388, 391, 485.
  • general psychopathology of, 440–442.
  • James-Lange theory of, 423, 453.
  • physiological manifestations of, 423;
    • changes in circulation, 424;
    • modifications of volume and action of heart, 424;
    • of respiratory apparatus, 426;
    • of glandular secretions, 426;
    • of the functions of the digestive glands, 426;
    • of the movements of the stomach and intestines, 426;
    • of salivary secretion, 431;
    • of secretion of ductless glands, 431;
    • of pupils, 433;
    • of muscular system, 433;
    • the psycho-galvanic reflex, 435.
  • physiological symptoms of, caused by subconscious ideas, 377–381.
  • phenomena of, due to subconscious processes, 103.
  • provides the impulsive force of an instinct, 447;
    • one of chief functions of, 451.
  • psycho-physiological schema of manifestations of emotion, 441;
    • physiological mimicry of disease, 442.
  • sensory accompaniments of, 453.
• Emotion, sensory disturbances caused by, 438.
  • the central psychical element in an innate reflex process, 446.
  • the conative function of, 451, 452–460;
    • discharge of force in three directions, 452.
• Emotions, as the prime-movers of all human activity, 450;
  • • organization of, with ideas essential for self-control, etc., 451, 458.
  • primary and compound, 446.
• Emotional discharge from subconscious processes, evidence for, 481.
• Emotional reactions, acquired, do not always involve subconscious processes, 418.

• Fanatics, 279.
• Fear neurosis due to subconscious ideas, 379.
• Feeling, may emerge from subconscious complexes, 383–386.
• Fixed idea (imperative), 278–279.
• Fringe (of consciousness), consideredconsidered as a subconscious zone, 338-352;
  • • as a twilight zone, 341;
    • consists of definite, real elements, 342;
    • ultramarginal or coconscious zone, 343–352.
  • content of the, 342–352;
    • only recovered by memory, 340, 353.
  • effect of attention in shifting the content of focus and, 340, 353.
• Fringe (of consciousness), meaning of ideas may be in the, 352–360.

• Glycosuria, due to emotion, 432.

• Hallucinations, see Visions.
  • as the emergence of secondary sensory images of subconscious ideas, 182–183, 204, 209–210, 315.
• Hysterical attacks,
  • as recurrent complexes, 280, 282;
    • laughter and crying due to subconscious processes, 379.

• Idea, a composite of sign and meaning, 325.
• Idea and Meaning, the problem of, 311.
• Ideas, content of, includes “Meaning,” 321-331.
  • setting of, 321, 330.
• Images, of perception, either in the focus of attention or in the fringe, 330, 340.
• Images, secondary, in perception, 82–183, 313;
  • dissociation of, 318–321;
  • from subconscious ideas, 204, 209, 315–321, 375, 413.
• Instinct and Intelligence, 240.
• Instinct, McDougall’s conception of an, 446.
  • as an emotional disposition, 447, 467.
• Instinctive process, three aspects of an, 446.
• Instincts, conduct determined by, 458;
  • • suppression of, by conflict, 454–458;
    • may be lasting, 460–467.
  • difference between consequences of repression of, and of sentiments, 467–469.
• Intelligence, 240.
  • and instinct, 240.
  • a pragmatic question, 241.
  • conscious and unconscious, 240–246.

• “Meaning,” as a part of the content of ideas, 321–331.
  • as determined by a subconscious process, 361.
  • as the conscious elements of a larger subconscious complex, 360–362, 363.
  • derived from the setting, 321, 330.
  • may be in the fringe of consciousness, 352–360, 363.
  • must be in consciousness, 339.
  • the problem of, 311.
• Melancholia, depressive feeling in, as emergence from a subconscious complex, 386.
• Memory, as a process, 1;
  • • of registration, conservation and reproduction, 2, 134.
  • conscious, a particular type, 3;
    • without recollection, 144.
  • physiological, 3, 135, 229, 238.
  • psycho-physiological, 138.
  • significance of theory of, 257–264.
  • subconscious, 84, 151, 517.
  • unconscious, 137.
• Memories, automatic, 267;
  • outbreak of, 274;
  • as hysterical attacks, 280;
  • as obsessions, 271, 278, 280;
  • as a phobia, 269.
• Monism, doctrine of, 246.

Neurograms, 109, 131. as organized systems of neurons, 121. as physiological dispositions, 131. as subconscious processes, 150–157.

• Obsessions, clinical characteristics of, 278.
  • four types of, 373.
    • type A, purely physical disturbances caused by subconscious ideas, 374–381.
    • type B, emotion plus physical disturbances, 381–386;
      • as “anxiety neurosis,” 382.
    • type C, emotion plus physical disturbances, plus idea, 387–410.
    • type D, idea, meaning, emotion and physical disturbance, 410–415.
  • inability to voluntarily modify, 415.
  • therapeutics of, 416.
  • the setting in, 372.

• Parallelism, doctrine of, 246.
• Perception, a synthesis of primary and secondary images, 312–321.
  • may include affects, 330.
• Personalities, subconscious, value of, for study of mental mechanisms, 160.
• Personality, as survival of antecedent experiences, 306–310.
  • dissociated, 299–302.
  • includes conserved but forgotten experiences of hypnotic states, 66.
  • multiple, 299–302.
• Phobia, see Obsessions.
  • as an automatism, 269.
  • of steeples (case), 389–410;
    • of fainting (case), 355–360;
    • of insanity (case), 411–414.
• Psycho-galvanic phenomenon, induced by subconscious processes, 103.
  • nature of, 435–438.
  • a phenomenon of emotion, 435.
  • as evidence of subconscious emotional discharge, 481–484.
• Psycholeptic attack, as an organized complex, 282.
• Psychoneuroses, symptomatic structure of, 521–528;
  • the hysterical attack, 524;
  • the dissociated personality, 525;
  • the subconscious fixed idea, 526;
  • the anxiety state, 526;
  • an obsession, 527;
  • an association neurosis, 527.
• Psychotherapeutics, based on organization of complexes, 288–289;
  • • in hypnosis, 304.
  • by the organization of unconscious settings of ideas, 368–372, 416.
• Psychotherapeutics of obsessions, 416.
• Physiological Dispositions, innate and acquired, 230, 231.
  • in the spinal animal, 231.
  • in the decerebrate animal, 231.
  • determinants of conscious and unconscious behavior, 230.

• Recollection, 143.
  • a more perfect kind of conscious memory, 144.
• Reflection, subconscious processes underlying, 225–228.
• Religious conversion (sudden), 193, 223.
• Reproduction, dissimilarity of types in abstraction and automatic writing, 27.
  • realistic, 32.
• Residua, as neural dispositions, 119.
  • chemical and physical theories of, 122;
    • analogy with anaphylaxis, 123;
    • theory of auto-catalysis, 124–127;
    • of nervous accumulators, 127–129.
• Residual Processes, underlying automatic motor phenomena, 88;
  • hallucinations, 90;
  • post-hypnotic phenomena, 96;
  • dreams, 98;
  • physiological bodily disturbances, 101.

• Self-consciousness, as resultant of emotional conflict, 521.
• Sentiment, definition of a, 449;
  • • as an organized system of emotional dispositions centered about an idea, 449–450.
  • difference between the consequences of repression of an instinct and of a, 467–469.
• Sentiments, essential for self-control and regulation of conduct, 451;
  • • in absence of, emotional life would be chaos, 451;
    • suppression of, by conflict, 454–458.
  • repression of, may lead to the formation of pathological subconscious states, 461.
• “Settings,” theory of, 311;
  • • practical application to everyday life, 331–337.
  • not sharply defined groups of ideas, 421.
  • as part of an unconscious complex and a subconscious process, 361, 363, 367;
    • inadequacy of analysis as a method of proof, 364, 368;
    • synthetic methods, 365;
    • therapeutic application of, 368–372;
    • in obsessions, 372–386, 387–415.
• Subconscious, The, demarcation between, and the conscious, 419;
  • • difficulties of interpretation by clinical methods, 220;
    • in applied psychology, 213–228.
  • meanings of, 247–254;
    • three classes of facts included in, 253.
  • special problems of, 162.
  • subdivisions of, x, 14, 253.
• Subconscious, emotional discharge shown by psycho-galvanic reaction, 481–484.
  • ideas, 249–254.
  • intelligence, 150, 153, 163, 164, 177–180, 187, 188;
    • underlying spontaneous hallucinations, 188–195;
    • underlying dreams, 196–213;
    • comparable to a coconscious personality, 211–212.
  • mathematical calculations, 96, 167, 169–171, 177–179.
  • perception, 52.
  • performance of post-hypnotic phenomena, 168, 171.
  • personality, 159;
    • value of, for study of mind, 159–160.
  • process, definition of a, 156.
  • processes, evidence for, 151, 163;
    • validity of memory as evidence for, 176;
    • actuality, intrinsic nature, and intelligence of, 164;
    • as coconscious, 157;
    • as unconscious, 161;
    • conditions required for proof of, 164–166;
    • as determinants of behavior, 153, 163;
    • of the meanings of ideas, 361, 363;
    • of physical symptoms, 377;
    • intrinsic nature of, 157, 163, 164;
    • underlying artificial visual hallucinations, 180–187;
    • spontaneous visual hallucinations, 188–195;
    • underlying dreams, 196–213.
• Subconscious self, 256.
  • solution of problems, 171–176.
• Symbolism, in dreams, 200, 202;
  • in visions, 222.

• Unconscious, The, 229;
  • as a storehouse of neurograms, 149.
  • as a fundamental of personality, 254–264.
  • has dynamic functions, 262.
  • the meanings of the, 149, 247–254.
• Unconscious, calculations, 178;
  • intelligence, 187, 210–211.
  • complex as the setting of ideas, 361-363.
  • complexes, organization of, 265;
    • definition of, 265.
  • ideas, 249-254.

• Visions, see Hallucinations.
  • as the emergence of secondary visual images of subconscious ideas, 182–3, 204, 209–210, 315, 413.
  • crystal, 42.
  • subconscious processes underlying normal, 222.
  • symbolism in, 222.

• Will, McDougall’s theory of the, 458.
• Word-association reactions and the principle of conflict, 481.