The Dissociation of a Personality a Biographical Study in Abnormal Psychology
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But a memory going back to infancy is without doubt an hallu- cination similar to what many people have. More important, however, for critical examination is her memory of the beginnings of division of consciousness. This separation was gradual, and at first, even by her ac- count, seems to have been ill defined, embryonic. She I AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A SUBCONSCIOUS SELF 395 dates the earliest beginning at the period when she was learning to walk. It was apparently towards the end of this period tha...t, according to her memory, which may here err, the development of a secondary consciousness took place. This would appear to be somewhat young for the develop- ment of pathological secondary states and the division of consciousness. Yet automatic phenomena indicative of doubling have occurred at a very early age ; hysteria some- times occurs in childhood. Catherine of Siena had visions at six years of age, according to her own letters. As to the nature of the cleavage of consciousness, we may ask, Does Sally's statement, assuming that it is not an error of memory, necessarily mean that a subconscious personality had developed at the early period given ?
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