PREFACE From the point of view indicated in Chapter 111, namely that the energy expended by psychics and psychical researchers, in attempting to prove im- mortality and the various other phenomena, is a conscious desire prompted by an unconsciolis fear, and is therefore an activity really not in line with the constructive employnlcnt of the libido, it will be evident that I approach the discussion of spiritistic phenomena with a certain natural reluctance be- cause I do not wish to be accused of an undue in- terest in either the validity or the invalidity of the alleged proofs. On a subject in which all my unconscious desire woulld be centred, if consciousness permitted me to know that a proof was available, I do not, from one point of view, wish to be heard at all. But it has seemed to rne that enough importance, to make it wholly worth while, attaches to the qution which one might, as a student of psychoanalysis, put to the psychical researchers, namely, How can you say so confidently that such and such things have happened when we really, as yet, know so little about the part played in all these phenomena by the unconscious wishes of the medium and of the observers CONTENTS PART I . CONSCIOUSNESS I THE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS PAGE . . . . . . 13 1 . The Feeling of Reality . . . . . . 20 2 . Meaning . . . . . . . . . . 22 3 . Degrees of Reality Feeling . 23 4 . Feeling of Sameness . 25 5 . IIBjii Vue . . . . . . . . . . 26 B . Absence of Sameness . 28 7 . Peculiarity of Sameness . . . 29 8 . Feelings Are Sensations . . . 31 9 . Reality Feeling an Internal Sensation . . 34 10 . The Panorama . . . . . . . . . 36 11 . Hallucinations . . . . . . . . . 39 12 . Healitp Feeling and Images . . . . . 41 13 . The Feelings and the Emotions . . . . 42 14 . Complexity of Consciousness . . . . . 44 15 . Feeling of Reality Detachable . . . . 47 1 . Emotions Contribute Energy . . . . 57 2 . Enlotions Indefinite . 59 3 . Erriotions and Unity of Function . 60 4 . The Objective Situation . . . . . . 62 5 . The Conflict . . . . . . . . . G3 6 . Fear . . . . . . 65 PART I1 . THE UNCONSCIOUS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS . . . . . . . . . . 73 I11 PSYCHOANALYSIS 1 . Ignorance About Psychoanalysis . . . 74 2 . Spiritism and Love . 75 7 8 CONTENTS PAO. 3 . What Psychoanalysis Is Not . . . . . 76 4 . Iiepression . . . . . . . . . . 78 5 . The Medium . . . . . . . . . 86 G . Unconscious Trends ........ 87 Resistance to Knowledge . . 93 Complrxity . . . . . . . . . . 99 Non-Conscious Idens and Feelings . . 101 Reassociationof Ideas . 106 Occurrence . . . . . . . . . . 107 Current Conscious Psychology . , . . 114 The Unconscious an Hypothesis . . 117 An Illustration . . . . . . . . . 118 Accidents . . . . . . . . . . l21 Another Illustration . . . . . . . 123 Magnification . . . . . . . . . 130 Limit on Size . . . . . . . . . 134 Fission and Fusion . . . . . . . 136 Tlie Unconscious as Omnipercipicnt . . . 138 Tllc Medium as Unconscious . . . . . 141 Unconscious Wishes 143 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Association Humans Subject to Natural Law . . Personality Unconscious Memory EarliestSensations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Introjection Projection . . . . . . . . . Animism . . . . . . . . . Attitude Toward Departed . . . . Science and the Reality Feeling . . Science and Projection . . . . . Reality Thinking and Life . . . . The Reality Feeling vs . Reality Thinking Unconscious Perceptions . . . . . Reading Mechanisms ...... CONTENTS 9 PAOB 16 . The Unconscious Combination of Ideas . . 187 17 . Miracles . . . . . . . . . . . 189 18 . Desire for the Extraordinary . . . . 191 19 . Desire S for Excitement . . . . . . 193 195 20 . Transference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Conflict-Split Character 201 The Postural Tonus 202 Emotion a Change of Relation 204 Eepression 207 Itepression and Conflict . . . . . . 209 Emotion Unceasing . . ...