Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1893-08-19
DUAL PERSONALITY.
RESIDUAL PHENOMENA or The MIND
IN SANE PEOPLE.

This Feature of Complies Personality \.
| Hest seen In the Case Of so Called Alb
sen,miasled business Man-Experienee.
OF tn. sleeping Mind.
Evidence is not wanting to show tina,
what we call personality is an extremely
complex thing the sum Of subsidiary per.
fonalities which now shift and change
like the figures in kaleidoscope. and
again becoming sharply defined under
some abnormal condition crystalline into
two or more distinct groups OF elements.
which alternately sleep and wake or
even coexist These complex elements
may be so unstable, the groups compos
ing them constantly breaking up and
forming new combinations, that the idea
Of multiple personality does not natural.
ly attach itself TO them: 1t is only when
they become stable, and especially when
each exhibits well defined conscious.
ness that we begin to think Of such a
thing But besides the abnormal and
diseased conditions which cause such a
separation or crystallization there are
other conditions in which in appears
somewhat less distinctly To one class
OF these | desire to call attention very
briefly to that embracing what may be
called cases of residual personality.
Residual phenomena of all kinds are
particularly interesting and instructive
especially those where the few things re-
manning in group after many have been
removed differ widely in their collie I've
properties from those that have been
e taken away. while these latter are not
In any way distinguishable from those
J of fine sum OF both before the division
0 This is the case often with residual per
! sonality Nothing is more common than
for group Of elements in what we call
4 a person to be differentiated in one Of
i various ways. leaving behind residual
, group differing altogether in its charac.
# teristics. though the differentiated group
Z represents TO W and is considered TO
o be identical with The original person.
n The commonest method of sneh differ
} entiation il sleep The elements Of
:. sleep are. as il were, substracted from
i the normal personality, but there is
!, usually left behind very curious some
r. thing-illogical credulous, fantastic
y whose nightly experiences the whole re-
r, united person recollects in the morning
y as dreams The next commonest case u
that OF the absentminded person. The
4 major part Of the person being absorbed
u in mental processes Of some sort, the re-
i sidual person lives its own separate men
d tai life, thinks, feels and wills by itself,
d and perhaps carries on a train Of proc
III esses which is continuous with proceed
&c ing train carried on under similar cir.
y cumstances the day before
A.
i mechanically The reunited person may
"a fail to recollect what its acts or thoughts
re were and be surprised to find how il has
been making use of his limbs while he
sc what he vainly regards as the one un
t alterable ego-has been absorbed in
ha thought But, on the other hand, II may
= be perfectly conscious and may carry
on an entirely different train Of thought
H. of its own Almost always. however, il
r is eccentric and betrays a weakness at
x one point or another
,Ir For instance, suburban resident,
II whom we will call A, is accustomed on
W landing al the New York side Of the
=, ferry to abandon the mechanical task Of
- walking to his Office entirely to his resid-
) ual personality and 10 give up the major
N part of himself to thought The two per
Ill sonalities act often with perfect-always
with practical the residual
he person being quite equal to the low task
ed of evading vehicles. steering clear Of pass.
g ersby and turning the proper corners
=, When the Office is reached and the two
- persons again become one, 1t is often q
u, difficult task to remember any cireum
nd stances of the walk
mr. On one occasion, however. A left tht
Q Aston library on Lafayette place, as ht
supposed. intending to walk down Gin
ton place To do this he mnst turn first
to the left, then to the right and thef
'as again to the left He turned once 70 th,
~ left and after some time became aiml!
~, conscious that he had walked for a lone
,at time. and that the place for the second
aed turn had not been reached.
RS Coming to himself. he found hinisel
the far down Broadway Tracing back hi
ant course mentally. he discovered that h
lge had been in the Mercantile library IN
~ stead of the Aston His first turn there
l., fore bad taken him down Broadway. am
Ms he OF course did not reach the place ~
or the second. Mark now the peeHliartie
!. OF his residual person. 1t knew jus
irs where IL was to turn and in what dlrec
the ton. and had sense enough To be uneas
aa' when IL did not come to the proper plac
~ to turn but il had not intelligenc
~. enough to know that 1t was on the wronl
'tes street Its mind was too weak to b
nee trusted further than IL was accustome
Idle to go This residual person. in shori
lea, was about on par with harmless idioi
ny Again. b. a New Yorker. is walkin
oon along absorbed in process of thought
'e" when his residual personality sees h
friend e approaching 1t is not astoi
ished. for he is near Cs lodgings. but q
au the person supposed to DO G comes neal
'n' or. 1t sees that he only slightly resemble
gu e. He has on shabby clothes, and b
nv face is entirely different. The natur;
III, ma conclusion would be that the person al
ne preaching was not G. The residual pc
" son, however. does not argue thus
ih' concludes that G has greatly changes
|, aa' that he has become poor and that b
~ appearance has altered for the worse.
aM Pity and surprise are plainly felt
=. the residual person. During these mel
a. tal processes, so similar to those Of
'ne dream residual, the major person b.
kept on with his own train of though