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THE FOUNDATIONS OF NORMAL AND ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY

Boris Sidis, Ph.D., M.D.

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INDEX

Abnormal, 47, 48

        moment, 283

        psychology, 119, 122, 203,
        230

        type, 45, 47, 48

Absence of controlling agency, 294

Absolute moment, 23

        desultory moment, 230, 240

Accidental processes, 96

        variations, 96, 98

Accumulative moment, 248

        moment, simple, 241

Acquired characters, 319, 320

Activity, 105

        change of, 26

        mental, 79, 97, 186

        mental, of moment, 287,
        288, 290, 293

Adaptation, 88

Aesthetic, 18

Affect, 44

Affection, 44

Affective state, 134

Agency, absence of controlling,
         294

Aggregate, moment, 248, 254,
        255,
257, 294, 311, 314

threshold of, 304

Amnesia, 46, 284, 288, 289, 290,
        291, 325

        post-hypnotic, 305, 306

Amorphous life, 324

        psychosis, 324

Animal life, 38

Antechamber of
        conconsciousness, 97, 98

Aphasia, 46

Arc, reflex, 12

Aspect, social, 27

        teleological, 90, 91, 95

Assimilation by moment, 272, 273,
        275, 277, 282, 283, 284

Assimilation, power of, 275, 277,
        284

Association, contiguity of, 359, 361

        contrast, 359, 361

        immediate, 210, 212

        indissoluble, 208

        mediate, 209

        by resemblance, 359, 361

        by similarity, 363

        Assumption, 16, 69, 70, 203,
        206

Attention, process of, 99

Attributes, sensory, 160, 163

Automatic, recognitive moment, 370

Automatism, 186, 192, 249, 271,
        285

        psychology, 190

 

Baldwin, 164, 166, 167, 168, 169,
        172

Behavior, 119

        hypothesis, 42

Behaviorist, views of, 43

Bergson, 119, 139, 140, 141,
        203, 204, 372, 373, 374

Biological activity, 301, 302, 303

        process, 87, 90, 91, 92, 95,
        96, 138

Biosis, 39

Brain currents, 190

        currents, localization of, 24

Buchner, 57

 

Cabanis, 57

Causal necessity, 85

Causation, efficient, 88, 92

        final, 88

        principle of efficient, 91

        purpose, 88

Cause, the, 101

Censor, 101

Central elements, 134, 135

        experience, 235, 236

Cerebration, unconscious, 175,
        176, 177, 178, 180, 183, 184

Chance, 100

        thought, 99

Chemo taxis, 130

Co-conscious, the, 207

Coefficient, ideational, 165, 170

        memory, 166

        of reality, 166, 168

        of representation, 165

        sensory, 165, 170

Coexistent, 80, 110

Cognition, immediate, 365

        mediate, 365

Complexes, mental suppressed,

        198, 199, 200, 203

Compound, perceptual, 151

        psychic, 133

        synthetic moment, 241, 337,
        341, 343

synthetic moment, accumulative,

        341, 343

Conditional reflexes, 211

        stimulus, 211

Consciousness, 13, 15, 19, 20,
        23, 24, 30, 31, 32, 37, 41, 42,
        59, 60, 62, 71, 79, 82, 83, 98,
        106, 107, 108, 111, 112, 113,
        133, 136, 184, 188, 189, 196,
        206, 229, 230, 231, 290, 296

        antechamber of, 97

        content of, 186

        desultory, 256, 257, 322, 323

        double, 290

        figured, 152

        focus of, 258, 259, 279,
        280, 281

        moment, 214, 229, 232, 233,
        234, 235

        passive, 194

        selective, 96

Constellation of moments, 254,255

Content, 49, 231

        mental, 49, 194, 195, 231

        of the precept, 132

        psychic, 46

Content of conscience, 14, 15,186

Contiguity of association, 359

Continuity, mental, 287, 293

        principles of, 82, 83, 86, 96

Contrast, association of, 359,361

Controlling agency, absence of,
        294

Corporeal individual, 37

Criterion of perceptive truth, 165

Cross section of moment, 236

Cumulation, process of, 263

Currents, brain, 190

 

Darwin, 47, 90

Data of science, 15

Day reveries, 99

Degeneration, mental, 296

        process of, 313, 315

Delusion, the, 283, 284

Descartes, 42, 186

Desire, 109

Desultory moment, 239, 243,
        323, 327, 329, 343,344,
        345, 346, 347, 348, 349,
        365,377

Desultory moment of consciousness,

        256, 257, 322, 323

Desultory moment of self-

        consciousness, 245

Desultory moment, recurrent, 324

Desultory type, 346

Disaggregation, 308, 309

        mental, 310, 313

        of moments, 308

        of moments, law of, 309,
        311, 313

        of moments, process of, 296

Diseases, functional, 75, 76

        mental, 311,314

        psychopathic, 271, 284

Dissociated moment, 350

Dissociation, 76, 150, 153, 158,
        159, 163, 186, 188, 189, 197,
        216, 217,223, 230, 271, 284,
        295, 308, 369, 375

Dissolution, process of, 314

Disturbance, psychopathic, 296

Doctrine, Spinozistic, 64

Dominant moment, 284

Double consciousness, 290

Dreams, 99, 307

Dynamogenesis, 2 I 7

        of dissociation, 295, 303, 304

 

Ebbinghaus, 49

Efficient causation, principle of, 91

Elements of affective state, 134, 137

        central, 134, 135

        freedom of, 354, 355

        nuclei, 127, 131, 132, 135,136

        of objective state primary, 137

        sensory, primary, 137,319

        sensory, secondary, 137, 138,
        145, 319

Emotion, 44

Emotional states, 113

        tones, 134

Energy, 20, 21, 79, 80, 128, 216,
        218, 123, 225

        kinetic, 20

        nervous, 218

        neuron, 218

        principle of subconscious,
        270, 277

reserve, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223,
        224, 225, 226

Epilepsy, equivalent of, 218

        idiopathic, 202

        psychic, 217, 218, 291, 295

Epistemology, 27, 30, 110, 118

Equivalent of epilepsy, 218

Errors, 99

Essence of percept, 132

Ethics, 18

Evolution, 47, 91, 254, 275, 285

Experience, immediate, 69, 70 

        mediate, 70

        unitory, 57, 68, 69

External reality, 26, 130, 164, 166,
        171, 172, 182, 183

Externality, 27

 

Faculty hypothesis, 358

Faith, realm of, 196

Fallacious percept, 141

Fallacy, 21, 24, 35, 190

        psychological, 35, 113,
        114,117,122,125,171, 345

        psychologist's, 229

Familiarity, 367, 368, 369, 371, 372

Family moment, 274

Fatigue; 303

Fechner, 59, 298, 300, 301

Figured consciousness, 152

Finality, 83, 88, 89

principle of, 83

Focus of consciousness, 258, 259,
        279, 280, 281

Food instincts, 310, 311

Forgetfulness, 203

Free association, 356, 357

        aggregate, 304, 305

Function of moment, 260, 265,
        290, 294, 327, 336

        of percept, 128

        of substitution, 162, 163

        periodicity of, 217, 218

Functional diseases, 75, 76

        psychosis, 154, 163, 192, 304

 

Galton, 97

Gap, mental, 293

        classification of, 293

        psychic, 287, 288, 290, 291,
        292, 293

Generic recognition, 242, 243, 244

Genius, 99

Geometry, 11, 14

Growth of moment, 260, 262, 263

Guesses, method of, 280

 

Habit, 214, 312, 319, 345

Hallucinations, 27, 141, 142, 146,
        149, 153, 154, 155, 156, 158,
        164, 165, 171

Hartley, 125, 361

Herbert, 199, 200

High type moment, 250, 251, 252,
        253

Hobbs, 126

Höffding, 170, 205, 207

Hume, 125

Hypnogogic, 39

Hypnoidal state, 99, 212, 279, 280,
        282, 291, 325, 349

Hypnoidic state, 346

Hypnoidization, 282

Hypnosis, 46, 84, 176, 177, 179,
        188, 271, 279, 280, 285, 287,
        290, 291, 305, 349

Hypnotic individuality, 189

        faculty, 358

Hypothesis, 201, 202

        faculty, 358

        materialistic, 57

        psychological, 73

        psycho-physiological, 73

        spiritualistic, 51, 52

        transmission, 59, 61

 

Ideas, 44, 66, 97,114,115,116,
        117,120,124,125,135, 138,
        141, 142, 147, 164,
190, 230,
        242, 360, 361

        painful, 203

        pleasurable, 203

Images, 43, 122, 123, 125, 135,
        138, 139, 140, 141, 142,

        147, 159, 160, 164, 165,
        166, 169, 170, 171, 172,
        204, 230, 361

        memory, 166

        object, 204

        subjective, 204

        substitution by, 162, 163

Immediate association, 210, 212

        experience, 69

Imperative concepts, 349

        impulses, 295

Impulses, imperative, 295

        uncontrollable, 349

Increase of sensation, 300, 302

Indissoluble association, 208

Individual, 89, 90

        corporeal, 37

Individuality, psychic, 231

Inhibition, 214, 215, 216, 219,
        223, 225

Insistent ideas, 170

Instinctive reaction, 268, 269

Instincts, 309, 310

        food, 310, 311

        periodic, 217

        sex, 310, 311

        social, 310, 311

Intellect, realms of, 196

Intensity, 160, 161, 162, 163

        of stimulation, 297

Intermediate links, 208, 209, 210

        mental links, 212

Internal reality, 171

Introspection, 44, 192

Investigation, methods of, 49

Irradiation, 146, 152, 153, 304

 

James, William, 59, 122, 152, 200,
        270, 374

 

Kinetic energy, 20

Külpe, 120

 

Ladd, 52

Lamark, 91

Law of degeneration, 311, 315

        of disaggregation, 309, 311,
        312

        of thresholds, 215

        Weber's, 297, 298

Life, 87

        amorphous, 324,

        animal, 38

        mental, 100, 101

        moral, 310, 311, 312

        personal, 310, 311, 312

        processes, 87

        psychic, 24, 230, 231

Likeness, relation of, 363

Logic, 18, 22

Low types of moment, 250, 251,
        252, 253, 257, 285, 286

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mach, 102

Maimon, 187

Mania, 314

Material nature, 19

Materialistic hypothesis, 57

Matter, 20, 24, 57, 204

Mechanics, 15, 20

Mechanism, definition of, 90

Mediate association, 209

        experience, 70

Melancholia, 311, 314

Meltzer, 223

Memory, 46, 49, 139, 140, 182,
        191, 192, 203, 289, 290,
        374, 390

        image, 166

Mental activity, 79, 97

        complexes, suppressed, 198,
        199, 200, 203

        content, 194, 195, 271, 287

Moment, cross section of, 236

        cumulative, 240, 387

        desultory, 239, 243, 323, 327,
        329, 344, 346, 347

        desultory of self-
        consciousness, 245

        disaggregation, 295, 308,

        dominant, 284

        family, 274

        forces, 259

        function of, 260, 327, 328, 336

        generic, recognitive, 243, 244

        low forms of, 257, 258

        percept, 260, 277

        perceptual, 237, 260, 273

        purpose of, 260

        recognitive, 241, 243,
        244, 376, 377, 378, 380,
        381, 382, 383, 384, 385,
        386,388,389

        recognitive of self-
        consciousness, 345

        recurrent, 324

        reflex, 239, 240, 317, 321,
        322

        representative, 381, 386

        reproductive, 264, 265,
        317, 318

        self-consciousness, 388, 389,
        390

        sensitivity of, 266

        simple, accumulative, 241

        single, synthetic, 337, 338

        specific, recognitive, 242,
        243, 244, 245

        stage, 260, 277

        structure of, 237

        synthetic, 240, 241, 326, 327,
        329, 330, 331, 332, 336, 337,
        330, 341,342, 343, 344, 345,
        346, 347,

Moment, synthetic, 348, 350, 376,
        384, 386, 388

        synthetic compound
        accumulative, 341, 343

        synthetic of
        self- consciousness, 245

        threshold, 214, 216, 220, 297,
        308

        type of, 239, 253

Moments, abnormal, 283

        constellation of, 254,255

        inter-relation of, 294

        organization of, 254

        subconscious, 277, 279

        submerged, 259

Multiple personality, 290

Multiplicity, 115, 116

Mysticism, 197

 

Narcosis, 312

Natural selection, 96, 201, 221,
        225, 273, 307, 309, 319,

        329, 337, 341, 345

Nature of things, 204

Necessity, causal, 85

        principal, 85

Nervous energy, 218, 219, 220

Neurasthenia, 223, 226

Neuron aggregate, 218

Neurosis, 24, 39, 78

Normal, the, 45, 47, 48

Normal psychology, 200

Nuclei elements, 127, 131, 135,
        136

 

Object, community of, 27

Objective images, 204

        time, 244

Ontogenesis, 249, 252, 256,

        257, 268, 285, 310, 331

Ontogenetic series, 13

Organic unity, 90, 91, 263

Organism, definition of, 90

Overaction, 295

 

Pain, 202, 203

Painful ideas, 203

Parallelism, 64, 78

Paranoia, 283

Pathological states, 346

Pathology, 74, 103

Pavlow, 210, 211, 212, 271

Pearson, 103

Percept, 89, 126, 128, 130, 131,
        133, 135, 137, 138, 144,149, 
        150, 159, 165, 171, 172,174,
        276

Perception, content of, 132

        essence of, 132

        function of, 138

        structure of, 127

        theory of, 119

Perceptual compound, 151

        moment, 237

        synthesis, 150

Periodicity of function, 218

Personality, 28, 192, 375

Persons, 27, 28

Pffefer, 302, 303

Philosophy, 16, 22

Phylogenesis, 249, 252, 309, 329,
        331, 338

        object, 29, 30

Physical phenomena, 26

        process, 84, 85

        series, 78, 87

        universe, 29

Physiology, 86

Plato, 170, 175

Pleasurable ideas, 203

Post-hypnotic amnesia, 305

        suggestion, 217

Postulate, 16, 17, 22, 23, 30,
        67, 82, 106, 110, 111, 112

        of psychology, 67, 68, 106

Precept, social, 26

Presentations, 351, 356

Presentative elements, 352, 353

Primary elements of objective state,
        137

Principle of continuity, 83, 86

        of efficient causation, 91, 92

        of finality, 83

        of finiteness, 83

        of necessity, 85, 86

        of reserve energy, 219

Processes, accidental, 96

        accumulative, 263

        biological, 87, 91

        mental, 16, 80, 87

        psychic, 26, 84, 85, 87, 107

        psychological, 96

Psychasthenia, 223, 226

Psychic compound, 133

        content, 49, 23

        epilepsy, 218, 292

        gap, 287, 290, 291

        modification, 265

        object, 29, 30

        phenomena, 26

        postulate, 106

        process, 24, 25, 26, 76, 82,
        83, 84, 85, 87, 105, 112,

        135

        series, 78

        state, 31

Psychiatry, 74

Psycho-biological element, 319

Psychological fallacy, 35, 171, 172

        hypothesis, 73

        laws, 16

        methods, 50

        processes, 26

Psychology, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19,
        20, 21, 30, 31, 32,

Psychology, 36, 37, 39, 40, 51, 57,
        61, 69, 71, 72, 81, 86, 92,
        100, 107,
110, 111, 112, 117

        abnormal, 119, 122, 203, 230

        automatism, 190

        sources of, 40

Psychopathic, diseases, 84, 212

        disturbance, 296

        maladies, 311

        state, 350

Psychopathology, 75, 175, 220

Psycho-physical relation, 109

Psycho-physiological hypothesis,
        73

        relation, 109

Psychosis, 24, 39, 78, 324

        functional, 163

        purpose, 38, 90, 91, 95, 99,
        100, 135, 315

        purposive life, 38

Reaction, 37, 128, 130, 136, 188,
        213, 260, 261, 262, 263, 266,
        267,
268, 269, 270, 271, 272,
        273, 274, 275, 294, 314, 315,
        333, 336, 338,
341, 342, 346,
        341

Reality, 23, 33

        external, 130, 164, 166, 171,
        172,
174, 182, 183

Recognition, 182, 183, 242, 244,
        265, 363, 366, 367, 368, 369,
        371, 372, 373, 374, 375, 376,
        377, 382, 383, 384, 385, 386,
        387, 388, 389

Recognitive, element, 182

        moment, 241, 324, 370,
        376, 378, 380

        moment, threshold, 246

Recurrent moment, 324

Reductive, the, 217

Reflex arc, 12

        moment, 239, 317, 321

Reflexes, 255, 256, 257

        unconditional, 211

Reinstatement, 343, 344, 345,
        346, 347, 349, 350, 351, 390

Relation, psycho-physical, 109

        psycho-physiological, 109

        type of, 11, 12, 13

Representation, 160, 165, 351,
        353, 356, 359, 361, 363

        law of, 359

Reproduction, 239, 240, 241,
        318, 323, 324, 325, 326,
        327, 328, 343, 346, 350,
        351, 376, 377, 378, 380,
        384, 385, 386, 387, 390

Reproductive moment, 264

Reserve energy, 219, 221, 225, 226

        principles of, 219

Ribot, 182, 288

Rise of threshold, 213, 215, 221,
        246, 299, 303

Routine of experience, 104

 

Savadsky, 211

Science, 11, 13, 16, 21

Secondary consciousness, 181

Selection, principle of, 285

Selective consciousness, 96

Self, 175

Self-consciousness, 175, 176,205,
        206, 208, 229, 231,
232, 375,
        388, 389

Self-cosmic, 197

Self-preservation, 315

Sensation, 20, 138, 140, 147,
        148, 149, 151, 160, 163,
        164, 166, 169, 171, 173

        centrally excited, 121

        motor character of, 141

        threshold of, 298, 299, 301,
        302

        unit of, 299, 301

Sense of reality, 173, 174

        of perceptual truth, 165

Sensitivity, condition of, 213

Sensory coefficient, 165, 170

Sensory elements, primary, 137

        elements, secondary, 137,
        138, 145

Sequence, causal, 105

        invariable, 101, 110

        necessary, 105, 110

Series, physical, 78, 87

        psychic, 78

Setting, 370, 371, 372, 374, 375

Signal of reality, 135

Similarity, 361, 362, 363

        association of, 363

Simple synthetic moment, 337

Sleep, 83, 84, 99, 108

Sociality, 172

Somnambulism, 287, 290, 291

Soul, 52

        hypothesis, 55, 56, 57

Soul-consciousness, 194, 195

Sources of psychology, 40

Specific, recognitive moment, 243

Spencer, 122

Spinoza, 122

Spinozistic doctrine, 64

Spontaneous variation, 95, 243

Stage, moment, 260, 277

States, pathological, 346

        psychic, 31

        psychopathic, 350

Stimulation, 308, 309

Stimulus threshold, 214, 298

Structure of moment, 237

Subconsciousness, 84, 175, 184,
        185, 186, 191, 193, 194,
        195, 196, 197, 198, 204,
        205, 206, 207, 208, 212,
        217, 276, 277, 278, 279,
        280, 281, 282, 296, 349,
        350

Subject, the, 231, 235

Suggestion, hypnotic, 176

        post-hypnotic, 176

Sully, 120

Suppression, theory of, 203

Synaesthesia, 152

Synthesis, 92, 116, 117, 133,
        152, 214, 218, 233, 235,
        263, 275

        mental, 17, 53, 113

Synthetic moment, 240, 326,
        327, 329, 332, 350, 365,
        387, 388

        moment compound, 337, 341,
        343

        moment of
        self-consciousness, 245

Synthetic type of consciousness,
        381

Synthetic unity, 116, 230

System, mental, 163, 213, 214

 

Taine, 120

Teleology, 92, 93, 95

Theory of suppression, 203

Things, 27

Thoughts, 34, 35, 42

Threshold, 54, 213, 215, 221, 223

        aggregate, 304

        fatigue, 303

        moment, 216, 297

        of sensation, 298, 299, 301,
        302

Threshold, rise of, 213, 215, 221,
        246, 299, 303

        stimulus, 214, 298, 304

        theory of, 175

Time, objective, 244

Transmission hypothesis, 59, 61

Tropism, 130, 187

Type, abnormal, 45, 47, 48

        moment, 253

        relation, 11, 12, 13

        synthetic, 381

 

Unconditional reflexes, 211

        stimulus, 211

Unconscious, the, 185, 198, 199,
        202, 205, 207, 212

        phonation, 155, 156, 157, 158

Uniformity, 110, 111

Unit of sensation, 299, 301

Unitary experience, 57

Unity, synthetic, 116

 

Variation, 319, 337

       accidental, 96, 98

       spontaneous, 95, 96

 Views of behaviorist, 43

 Vividness, 160, 161, 162, 163

 Vivisection, 48

 Volition, 83, 230

 Voluntarism, 67

 Voluntaristic school, 64

 

Watson, 42, 43, 44

Weber, 298

Weber-Fechner law, 300

Willers, 28

World of appreciation, 196

        description, 196

Wundt, 209

 

Ziehen, 176

 

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