The Washington herald., 1920-12-28
MEMORY OF PAST :.
LURKING BRAIN
CREATES DUALISM
French Scientist Explains
Jekyn and Hyde
; Character.
BY wINIFRED VAN DUzER.

That odd wandering of attention
that carries your mind far from
something you're read1ng-have you
wondered about It?
Are you unreasonably revolted by
some harmless thing or animal, as
a feather or q mouse?
When you see a pile Of gems. do
you clamp down suppression upon
a desire to scoop them UP, and run?
Split personality!
The rift of an obscure experience
cutting through your being, sep
aratihg from a poised consciousness
polished into being by hundreds of
years Of civilization in atavistic
subconsciousness which will exist
as long as the human body is
animal
Explains Theory.
analyst and author, today explained
the Jekyll and Hyde which he says
lives in every man and woman in
the world. NJ. Tridon, who came to
this country from Paris a number
healing of various spectacular ply
SNSioho hCACs MS
theories by constant reference to
cases coming before him for care.
He elaborated upon the principle,
now well known to all interested
in the doctrine which takes the
mind apart to see what makes II
go, of suppressed fears and wor-
ries causing various forms OF men
ance. He said:
Our conscious personality is no
more than a decent social mask
worn over a set of animal desires
for food, wealth, sexual gratifica-
tion. This is the beast which lives
in every human being somewhere
at the bottom of subconsciousness
Continual War Results.
Ordinarily the two work together
smoothly. But il is possible for
an experience, such as nagging en-
vironment or illness. to force partial
separation of the two so that con-
tinual war goes on between them
II the rift is not too deep a phys
ical evidence of it will be impaired
attention. More serious is memory
loss. Afterward comes stammering.
epilepsy, finally dual personality"
%No" mere 10 lhe way you 10
find out IL your attention is i'm
paired by a psychological split, ac-
cording to NJ. Tridon's method.
Mark the word in the story or art
icle you're reading upon which your
attention begins to wander. Then
read some more and repeat. Those
words are significant. 1t Is more
than likely they point the way to an
arnntinnoI
quite forgotten, which is inhuenc-
up worry or fear, and which will
1t out into the open and acknowl-
edge it for what it is.
shows Obscure Ghosts.
For this acknowledgment, NJ.
Tridon said, is the only thing to lay
the ghost which hsunts obscure cor
ners of your mind.
He continued:
Conscious fear is many times less
dangerous than unconscious fear;
the same principle applies to worry.
AS for loss of memory, you will
find that the consciousness blurs
only what it wishes to forget.
do not remember to send a check,
yet / never fail to send a bill.
You always will discover that
the name or the word 'on the tip of
the tongue is possessed of disagree
able association, and its elusiveness
is the deliberate attempt of the sub
consciousness to protect the con-
sciousness.
'stammering is the result OF fear
wedged between words or syllables.
The fear usually springs from hu-
initiation.
The epileptic is murderous
cave man welded to the most civil
lied. tender, thoughtful nature
imaginable. Fear and hate for an
injury done splits that personality
with such terrific consequence as to
cause the consciousness to become
submerged in the subconsciousness
and dominated by the beast.
During the submergence the epi-
leptic mentally murders the one who
injured him by one of three meth
eds: Strangling. stabbing or punch
ing. These are the three gestures
of epilepsy"