The unconscious

by Morton Prince

• 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), considered[considered] 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].