is again at times normal. The two states are completely separated by amnesia.[1]
Hoefelt[2] reports on a case of spontaneous somnambulism in a girl who in her normal state was submissive and modest, but in somnambulism was impertinent, rude and violent. Azam’s[3] Felida was, in her normal state, depressed, inhibited, timid; and in the second state lively, confident, enterprising to recklessness. The second state gradually became the chief one, and finally so far suppressed the first state that the patient called her normal states, lasting now but a short time, “crises.” The amnesic attacks had begun at 14½. In time the second state became milder and there was a certain approximation between the character of the two states. A very striking example of change in character is that worked out by Camuset, Ribot, Legrand du Saulle, Richer, Voisin, and put together by Bourru and Burot.[4] It is that of Louis V., a severe male hysteric with amnesic alternating character. In the first stage he is rude, cheeky, querulous, greedy, thievish, inconsiderate. In the second state he is an agreeable, sympathetic character, industrious, docile and obedient. This amnesic change of character has been used by Paul Lindau[5] in his drama “Der Andere” (The Other One).
Rieger[6] reports on a case parallel to Lindau’s criminal lawyer. The unconscious personalities of Janet’s Lucie and Léonie (Janet, l.c.) and Morton Prince’s[7] may also be regarded as parallel with our case. There are, however, therapeutic artificial products whose importance lies in the domain of the dissociation of consciousness and of memory.
In the cases reported upon, the second state is always separated from the first by an amnesic dissociation, and the
- ↑ Cf. Donath, “Ueber Suggestibilität,” Weiner mediz. Presse, 1832, No. 31. Quoted Arch. f. Psych., XXXII., p. 335.
- ↑ Hoefelt. Allg. Zeit. f. Psych., XLIX., p. 200.
- ↑ Azam, “Hypnotisme, Double Conscience,” etc.
- ↑ Bourru et Burot, “Changements de Personnnalité,” 1888.
- ↑ Moll, “Zeit. f. Hypn.,” I., 306.
- ↑ Rieger, “Der Hypnotismus,” 1884, p. 190 ff.
- ↑ Morton Prince, “An Experimental Study of Visions,” Brain, 1898.
