The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1893-04-15
DUAL PERSONALITY.
RESIDUAL PHENOMENA or THE MINE
IN CANE PEOPLE.

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This Fenture Of Comples Personality T.
Best Seen In the Case Of "a SO called Az.
senhninded Business Man -Esperieucr,
Of the sleeping Mind.
Evidence is not wanting to show that
what we call personality IS an extremely
complex thing, the sum of subsidiary per
sonalities which now shift and chance
like the figures in a kaleidoscope an
again becoming sharply defined under
some abnormal condition crvstallize init
two or more distinct groups of elemen,
which alternately sleep and wake O.
even coexist. These complex element
may be so unstable, the groups coinpos
ing them constantly breaking up adj
forming new combinations. that theidea
of multiple personality does not natuial.
ly attach itself to them; it is only wbeu
they become stable, and especially when
each exhibits a well defined conscious
ness that we begin to think of such a
thing. But besides the abnormal and
diseased conditions which cause such 90
separation or crystallization there ar,
other conditions in which in appear
somewhat less distinctly To one class
Of these l desire 10 call attention very
briehy-to that embracing what may b.
called cases Of residual personality.
Residual phenomena of all kinds arf
particularly interesting and instructive.
especially those where the few things IL
naming in a group after many have been
removed differ widely in their collective
properties from those that have been
taken away, while these latter are not
in any way distinguishable from those
Of the sum of both before the division.
This is the case often with residual per.
sonality. Nothing is more common than
for group Of elements in what we call
a person to be differentiated in one of
various ways, leaving behind residual
group differing altogether in its eharac
teristics, though the differentiated group
represents 90 us and is considered to
be identical with the original person.
The commonest method Of such differ.
entiation is sleep The elements Of
sleep are, as it were, substracted from
the normal personality, but there is
usually left behind very curious some.
thing credulous, fantastic
whose nightly experiences the whole re.
united person recollects in the morning
as Dreams The next commonest case l.
that Of the absentminded person. The
major part OF the person being absorbed
in mental processes Of some sort, the re.
sidual person lives its own separate men.
tai life, thinks, feels and wills by itself
and perhaps carries on train of proc
esses which is continuous with a preced-
ing train carried on under similar cir
cumstances the day before
This residual person may act very
mechanically. The reunited person may
fail to recollect whatits acts or thoughts
were and be surprised to find how it has
been making use Of his limbs while he
what he vainly regards as the one un
alterable ego-has been absorbed il
thought. But, ON the other hand. it may
be perfectly conscious and may carry
on an entirely different train of thought
of it's own. Almost always, however, il
is eccentric and betrays a weakness al
one point or another.
For instance, a suburban resident
whom we viii call A, is accustomed OF
landing at the New York side Of thu
ferry to abandon the mechanical task o
walking to his office entirely to his resid
ual personality and to give up the majoi
part of himself TO thought The two per
sonalities act often with perfect-alway
with practical-separaten theresidua
person being quite equal to the low tasl
of evading vehicles, steering clear Of pass
ersby and turning the proper corners
When the Office is reached and the tw,
persons again become one, it is often
difficult task to remember any circum
stances Of the walk.
On one occasion, however, A left tn
Astor library on Lafayette place, as h
supposed, intending to walk down Gin
ton place. To do this he must turn frs
to the left, then to the right and the
again to the left. He turned once to tn
left, and after some time became diml
conscious that he had walked for a lon
time, and that the place for the secon
turn had not been reached.
Coming to himself, he found himsel
far down Broadway. Tracing back hi
course mentally, he discovered that h
had been in the Mercantile library IL
stead of the Astor. His first turn there
fore had taken him down Broadway, an
he of course did not reach the place fo
the second. Mark now the peculiaritie
of his residual person. It knew jus
where it was to turn and in what direS
ton, and had sense enough to be uneas
when it did not come to the proper plac
to turn, but it had not intelligenc
, enough to know that it was on the wron
street. Its mind was too weak TO /
trusted further than it was accustome
! to 20. This residual person, ia shor
! was about on par with harmless idio
Again, B, New Yorker, is wallrin
along absorbed in a process Of though
when his residual personality sees h
friend c approaching. 1t is not astoi
Z ished, for he is near C's lodgings, but &
the person supposed to be G comes nea
. sr, it secs that he only slightly resemble
, Q. He has ON shabby clothes, and h
face is entirely different. The naturi
4 conclusion would be that the person a.
! preaching was not G. The residual pc
! son, however, does not argue thus
concludes that G has greatly changes
that he has become poor and that h
appearance has altered for the worse.
!, Pity and surprise are plainly felt |
= the residual person. During these me
u tai processes, 80 similar 90 those of
o dream residual, the major person h
"A kept ON with his own train of though
p Finally, however, on the close approaS
It Of the supposed C. they unite In a fai
l. into the normal person, the two separa
u Consciousness become one, and Il
"a truth Is recognized at once, No don
u these cHses can be paralleled by tho
sands Of others 1t seems to = tn
they ar8 as true instances of doUfie ue
a sonality as any exhibited by epileYtil
O. hyponotio persons. "A. +. Bost'
Science.
10 How Tenuysou Decided a Matter.
10 Here Is Teuuyson's own account 70 N
~ James Kuowles, editor of The Mi