The subconscious self and its relation to education and health / by Louis Waldstein.

  • Waldstein, Louis, 1853-1915.
Date:
[1907]
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Credit: The subconscious self and its relation to education and health / by Louis Waldstein. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    of his letters, he expresses surprise at the persistence with which the head of Socrates, ever present, haunts him, unaltered from the beginning in expression and illumination, the light falling on the bald part of the head in such a manner as to bring out in sharp lines the profile. My mind has been so long possessed of this image, its position, its pre- cise illumination, that I have often tried to trace it back to its origin, and not succeeding, must assume, he half jestingly adds, that I have been born with it. We, who are familiar vi^ith this refuge in antenatal regions, so satisfying to the pseudo scientific mind of to-day, need not wonder at finding the artist unable to suggest a far simpler explanation, — an explanation, moreover, that, if farther an- alyzed, might elucidate many stages in his development as an artist, and lead us to under- stand the forces that fashioned his style and prescribed the motive for his works. They were classical for the most part, and no won- der. His father was Professor of Philosophy c L.