Author : Alfred Binet
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 34,76 MB
Release : 2013-09
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ISBN : 9781230205908
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS IN HEALTH.* The preceding experiments have been made withhysterical 'subjects'. It has seemed to me useful to try if I could obtain analogous results in subjects that are normal--or nearly so, for, of course, the normal type has only an ideal existence. It is certain that, if we succeed in seizing in a healthy individual the least degree of the phenomena of duplication which are so developed in the hysterical, a solid basis will be given to the psychological study of double consciousness; each observer being put in a position to check all the facts advanced. I have made my investigations on five persons, who have been kind enough to submit themselves patiently to very long, very minute, and very monotonous experiments. So that, proceeding from the results obtained and set forth in the foregoing pages, we shall now endeavor to find out whether the phenomena of the duplication of consciousness are to be met with in non-hysterical subjects. * * * The persons on whom I have experimented are two ladies of fifty, a lady of thirty, and two of twentyfive years of age. One lady of fifty is ataxical; the lady of thirty is decidedly anaemic; otherwise, all of them enjoy good health. They have little intellectual culture, are completely ignorant of the aim of the experiments, and know, of course, nothing of researches on double consciousness or the like. I sat with each of them, on an average, six times, for three-quarters of an hour. The phenomena became gradually more marked, and without doubt would become still more so if the treatment were pushed farther. Lately I have attended to the question whether suggestible persons present a narrowing of the field of consciousness, that is to say, a difficultyTn occupying theraselves...