Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-04-04
DUAL PERSONALITY.
RESIDUAL PHENOMENA or THE MlNc
IN SANE PEOPLE.


of the sleeping Mind.
Evidence Is not wanting 10 show that
what we call personality is an extremely
complex thing, the sum ofsnhsidiary per
sonahtios which now shift aud change
like the figures in Kaleidoscope, and
again becoming sharply defined under
some abnormal condition crystalline into
two or more distinct groups 81 elements,
which alternately sleep and wake or
even coexist These complex elements
may DO SO unstable, the groups compos.
ing them constantly breaking up and
forming new combinations, that the idca
of multiple personality does not natural
" attach itself 20 them; 10 is only when
they become stable, and especially when
each exhibits well defined conscious
ness that We begin 10 think Of such
thing But besides the abnormal and
diseased conditions which cause such u
separation or crys,alhnation there are
other conditions in which in appears
somewhat less distinctly, To one class
Of these | desire 10 call attention very
briefy-to that embracing what may he
called osscs u residual personality,
Residual phenomena ~ all kinds are
particularly interesting and instructive,
especially those where the few things ne
mainins in eroaa astes many have been
removed iiEeg widely in tA0ir collective
properties trosn those Thar have hecn
taken away, while sAcSe latter are net
IN shy way &isssrEusShaele frosn those
q the sam q N,'h ocfors tire DIVISION
THIS Is he case osssu w5iA rsSisssxl vcr,
sc>AAC NesAaae Is more coz1zaoz tAaa
to- erozT 10 elements IN wA.Si ne 81,
rsrsc9 a. he Differentiated u, one Q.
vxrac1S WAYS. lassans haAsn6 3 TeSisus,
ETocT 5las-azys A,toctthar IN ms charaC,.
ssz1siass, tho1ch ire Giisa-saifassa6 c-allg
rslrr'assnaS sc N ANA Is c1nadsr-es T.
Ne oanranl v-lth ahs araCins narsan.
The raumano,c nalhad 81 snsih Offer
aarisniar u sieaH Ths elements Of
slsar E-a. ~ II warr sufsr-aatad som
1hs nu-mal parsouaiity, hut thars IL
usually iats behind very curious some
zfn1lc--Ilorinal g-eduious. faulasrir-
w-hnse nightly experiences lhf whole ~
uniIec pa7s0u reooliects N lhs morning
~ dreams The nez1 cnmmunesi case n
zhfu Of lhf ainsenrmnded person. The
mayor par Of tn person hainc absorbed
n mental lITncessas 0f some sn-t. the ~
sidral person lives IN own separate men
IA lite. tnlnts, feels and wills hy itself
emo rsTtars carTles on s. tram OF Proc
1850 which b. continuous win uraca6-
mE tram carried or unde- similar nir
rumsfauces TIM isv before
TINS residual person may act ve-v
mechanically Tho raunited person may
1aI % rscollact what its acts or thoughts
we-s and b. surprised 10 IND how II mas
taan niasInc u.s. al MS limbs while he
S,hni hs vaIniy regards a. the one III
Eira-nnls egl-hn~ been absorbed II
th1urnt But on tha other hand. II NAV
es Qa-fHct'v cnnsriuns and may cEr-y
n ST s-rirH.v different tram Of 1huuch1
q rs eva Almost aiwEvs h1wsvs-. II
= scos1rrle Eul .iar-1vs q weakness al
o1e Vciri ug Eu11hHr
foT us7Hncs. a SO lru-1En resident
whom " WI rza A Is accustomed On
lsndilg 81 the New YORK S5s C the
ferry 70 shsnio1 she mechanical task of
walking % his ctfcs entirely % his rasid-
ual personality and 20 give n tie major
part OF himself 70 thought he two PEI
sonalities act often with perfect-slv8vs
with praCtical--se Psrltsness, terrestrial
person being quite equal to Tire low task
of evading vehicles. steering clear Of pass
ersby and turning the proper corners
When the office Is reached and the two
persons again become one 10 Is often
difficult task to remember any circum-
stances Of the walk
On one occasion. however. A left the
Astor library on Lafayette place, as he
supposed. intending to walk down Gin
ton place To do this be must turn first
to the left, then to the right and then
again 10 the left he turned once TO the
left, and after some time became dimly
conscious that he had walked for long
time, aud that the place for the second
turn had not been reached.
Coming TO himself. he found himself
far down Broadway Tracing back his
course mentally. he discovered that he
had been in the Mercantile library in
stead of the Astor His first turn there
fore had taken him down Broadway, and
he Of course did not reach the place for
the second. Mark now the peculiarities
Of his residual person 1t knew just
where it was to turn and in what direc-
ton. and had sense enough to be uneasy
when 1t did not come to the proper place
to turn, but 1t had not intelligence
enough TO know that II was on the wrong
street. Its mind was too weak 10 be
trusted further than it was accustomed
TO go. This residual person, in short,
was about on par with harmless idiot.
Again, .. "a New Yorker, is walking
along absorbed in a process of thought
when his residual personality sees hi:
friend G approaching. 1t is not aston
ished, for no is near Cs lodgings, but AZ
the person supposed to be Q comes near
or, II sees that he only slightly resembles
O. He has ON shabby clothes. and hi
face Is entirely different. The natura