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

  • Louis Waldstein
Date:
[1902]
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Credit: The subconscious self and its relation to education and health / by Louis Waldstein. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The act of concentrating our attention upon certain objects necessitates the exclusion of all other impressions. In listening to a conversa- tion, however, we receive impressions not only of the words uttered, but also of the sounds in the air and of its temperature, of odors, the forms, colors, lights and shades; to which are added all those subtle sensations due to our sense of touch and to the skin; — all associ- ating themselves with the thoughts conveyed. The more we exclude these surrounding in- fluences, the simpler are the impressions and the consequent perception and registration of the conversation addressed to us; the less, on the other hand, we are able to exclude the associating impressions from it, the less dis- tinct, because more complicated, will be the memory of the impressions received: our at- tention will not have been complete. We therefore make a distinction between the conscious impressions and those others associ- ated with them though not within the narrowed circle of our attention, the subconscious impres-
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