It is interesting to note that when a primary emotion was absent, for instance in personality B, that a compound emotion which included this primary emotion was also absent. It is obvious that dissociation of personalities in which certain emotions are repressed offer valuable data for studying the problem of the classification of emotions, more reliable than do the usual methods of introspective analysis.
PRIMARY EMOTIONS, INSTINCTS, FEELINGS AND INNATE DISPOSITIONS
| Personality A | Personality B | |
| Anger | Present (marked) | Never observed, although sometimes she felt “provoked” |
| Fear | Present (marked) | Never observed |
| Disgust | Present (marked) | Never observed |
| Hunger | Slight | Absent (?) |
| Sexual | Present | Absent |
| Curiosity | Present | Present |
| Joy | Absent (present only when excited by suggestion) | Present (marked) |
| Sorrow | Present (marked) | Absent |
| Parental, Tender- feeling Affection, etc. | Present | Absent |
| Self-assertion—Elation | Present (in pride) | Present |
| Self-abasement—Subjection | Present (marked) | Absent |
| Play | Absent | Present (marked) |
| Pleasure-feeling tones | Rare | Constant (marked) |
| Pain-feeling tones | Present (marked) | Absent |
COMPOUND EMOTIONS
| Personality A | Personality B | |||
| Admiration | Present | ? | ||
| Reverence | ? | ? | ||
| Gratitude | Present (marked) | ? | ||
| Scorn | { | Anger Disgust | Present (marked) | Absent |
| Loathing | { | Fear Disgust | Present (marked) | Absent |
| Envy | ? | ? | ||
| Reproach | { | Anger Tender-emotion | Present | Absent |
| Jealousy | Present | Absent (?) | ||
| Vengeful emotion | Present | Absent | ||
| Shame | Present | Absent | ||
| Bashfulness | Present | Absent | ||
| Pity | ? | Absent | ||
| Happiness | Absent | Constant | ||
As there were differences in emotions and pleasure-pain feelings manifested by the two personalities, so also the emotions and feelings organized with the same objects differed. That is to say, one and the same object often awakened different emotions or feelings. For example, the moon excited in A pain, in B pleasure; woods excited in A apprehension, in B pleasure; a lake, in A fear; in B joy; relatives, in A affection, in B indifference. Situations, too, that gave A sorrow, gave B joy, or, it might be, pleased A and bored B. Likewise with persons: Y—aroused intense hatred, scorn, etc., in A; in B pleasant feelings.
IV
To return to the behavior of the B and A personalities; the B system, from the fact that it had become for a month, during the third period, segregated as an independent and autonomous system, had become crystallized and easily dissociated as a whole from the remainder of the personalities. The same happened with the A system after it had become emancipated as a result of the fourth shock. The two systems readily changed with one another and I had innumerable opportunities of observing the changes taking place before my eyes and of studying them. C makes the following statement of these alternations:
Shortly after I came to you I began to alternate more frequently between those two states, and it is well to emphasize that one marked change in the state of A developed. In this state I now had complete amnesia for my whole life as B; for everything I thought and did.[[300]] In other respects, however, these states were identical with what they had been. The presence of amnesia made no difference in the fact of change of personality. As I see it I was just as much an altered personality before the amnesia developed as afterward. As B, I had no amnesia.
The amnesia made life very difficult; indeed, except for the help you gave me I think it would have been impossible and that I should have gone truly mad. How can I describe or give any clear idea of what it is to wake suddenly, as it were, and not to know the day of the week, the time of the day, or why one is in any given position? I would come to myself as A, perhaps on the street, with no idea of where I had been or where I was going; fortunate if I found myself alone, for if I was carrying on a conversation I knew nothing of what it had been; fortunate indeed, in that case, if I did not contradict something I had said for, as B, my attitude toward all things was quite the opposite of that taken by A. Often it happened that I came to myself at some social gathering—a dinner, perhaps—to find I had been taking wine (a thing I, as A, felt bound not to do)[[301]] and what was to me most shocking and horrifying, smoking a cigarette; never in my life had I done such a thing and my humiliation was deep and keen.