Part 20 (1/2)

”'I think I a thestory, which I give substantially in the original language:

”'As I was going in to dinner,out for ”I a to eat ot your hat on for?” says she I put my hand to my head, and there wascrazy?” ”No, an to get frightened, but took off my bonnet and went into the next rooer child si, and called attention to her having her bonnet on A second time she raised her hand to her head, and to her surprise found that her bonnet was really there She again took it off, and later, when her husband entered, the sa was repeated; but when she found her bonnet on her head for the third time, she made excuse of the stormy words that ensued to declare she would 'keep it on now till she was through' After dinner, being alarest tiestion was eois, another of the early French investigators Doctor Liegeois hypnotized a young man, and said to hi to do, and what you are going to see: You will call at Doctor Liebeault's office in the , and tell hieois for all they have done to i to hi on its back They will perform a thousand tricks that will amuse you very reat Arizzly bear, which will also perform tricks It will be a tahtened Theand ht he had lost Before he leaves you will borrow a few cents froeois, after repeating these coascertained that his memory was a perfect blank for all that had been said to him while he was hypnotized Great care was taken not to recall to his iven to him, and which his hypnotic self was expected to remember and perform on the appointed day

Exactly a year later, at nine in the eois went to Doctor Liebeault's office, where he waited half an hour, and then returned ho that the experiabout his appearance to indicate that he was in any abnorreeted Doctor Liebeault, explained that he had come to thank hieois, whom he said he had expected to find there A fewon the back of a dog He watched the antics of these i heartily, and describing the tricks he fancied he saw the

After this, he announced the arrival of a , and he begged Doctor Liebeault to lend him a little money to reward the iven hi with the two physicians, in evident ignorance of all that he had just been saying and doing He angrily denied that there had been any animals in the rooive no definite reply Doctor Liegeois immediately put him into the hypnotic state, and de?”

”Of course I do”

”Why was it?”

”Because you told o”

”But you did not come at nine o'clock?”

”You did not tell me to come at nine o'clock You said to co to ave me your command”

”And why did you not see the bear?”

”Because you said nothing about a bear when you repeated your orders

You spoke only once of a bear Everything else you spoke of twice I thought you had changed your eois's account of his estion et du Somnambulisme dans leurs Rapports avec la Jurisprudence et la Medecine legale,”

for contributions to the literature of hypnotism

Obviously, the hypnotic self, distinct and different though it is fro self, can reason, can analyze, can draw conclusions as readily as the conscious self, and is, to put it otherwise, as truly a self as the conscious self

Facts like these, as was said, have caused nuators to question the validity of the hitherto prevailing view of hule, continuous, permanent entity On the contrary, it is ation of , so that the self of to-morrow may be vastly different from the self of to-day To quote Professor Ribot, the fauished exponents of this ne of the self:

”The unity of the ego is not the unity of a single entity diffusing itself a multiple phenomena; it is the coordination of a certain nu for their sole, co of the body This unity does not diffuse itself doard, but is aggregated by ascent from below; it is not an initial, but a terminal point”

And Ribot adds eanism, with the brain, its supreme representative, which constitutes the real personality; co in itself the remains of all that we have been and the possibilities of all that we shall be