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Credit: A first book in psychology / by Mary Whiton Calkins. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A first book in psychology / by Mary Whiton Calkins. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![hypnotically, when a metamorphosis occurs. She is gay, noisy, restless, sometimes insupportably so. She remains good-natured, but has acquired a singular tendency to irony and sharp jesting. To this character must be added the possession of an enormous number of recollections, whose existence she does not even suspect when awake, for her amnesia is then complete. . . . She refuses the name of Leonie, and takes that of Leontine (Leonie 2) to which her first magnetizers had accustomed her. ‘ That good woman is not myself,’ she says, ‘she is too stupid !’ To herself, Leontine or Leonie 2, she attributes all the sensations and all the actions; in a word, all the conscious experiences which she has undergone in somnambulism, and knits them together to make the history of her already long life. To Leonie 1 [as M. Janet calls the waking woman], on the other hand, she exclusively ascribes the events lived through in waking hours. But it is the same with her second or deepest state of trance. When after the renewed passes, syncope, etc., she reaches the condition called Leonie 3, she is another person still. Serious and grave, instead of being a rest¬ less child, she speaks slowly and moves but little. Again she separates herself from the waking Leonie 1. ‘A good but rather stupid woman,’ she says, ‘and not me.’ And she also separates herself from Leonie 2: ‘ How can you see anything of me in that crazy creature?’ she says. ‘Fortunately, I am nothing for her.’ ” The dissociation of hypnosis from the waking life is evidently not complete. The hypnotized subject remembers not only the events of former hypnosis but facts of his waking life. On the other hand, unlike the dreamer, he seldom remembers, after wak¬ ing, the experiences of the trance. Yet hypnosis, in its deeper stages, has a curious influence on the later waking life, known as post-hypnotic suggestion. The hypnotist, for example, before waking his subject, addresses him in some such fashion as the following: “To-morrow, at twelve o’clock, you will stop the clock on the stairs.” At twelve o’clock on the following day, the sub¬ ject, apparently in his normal condition, actually stops the clock, to all appearance on his own initiative, without remembering the suggestion of the hypnotist.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31353058_0405.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
