The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-01-14

quite nSenSlDle TO the preOccupdllou
IT imposed so generally. Even Pris-
ella, though she made no sign
H.. ANALYSIS.
Love worried Philip Fosdick with re-
lentless importantly, whether he We're
behind the desk in his consultation
room, doing his best to give his best to
those unfortunates who sought him
cut to lay open distressed hearts and
bespeak his sympathy and healing
cudgeling his wits for insight into the
mystery that Swallowed the happiness
of the woman he loved.
The problem Knocked his shrewdest
efforts. Practice and study, personal
contact and observation together with
close examination of cases recorded
by others, had long since made him, as
he believed, familiar with every phase
of psychosis, hysteria and neurosis, as
well as with these psychic phenomena
which will at times develop in per-
sons of seemingly normal idiOsyncrasy,
from simple dreaming to somnambu-
lism in all its guises, with halIucina-
ton, trance, ecstasy, telepathy and
telaesthesia and the various forms of
hypnosis.
However nearly akin they might be
tc more than one of these, what Eos
dick for want of better name contin-
ued with Priscilla to term her
dreams" persisted in defying classifi-
cation by virtue of perverse sort of
intrinsic un;quity. For they were in
no sense true dreams, having none of
the features peculiar to those fantastic
inventions of the mind uncensored by
waking consciousness. They were ut
terly without traceable relation to any
thing in the memory of the subject
or her personal circumstances and en-
vironment. Nor were they, as is
every ordinary dream, a tumble of con-
densed and disfgured impressions IN
Ineligible but to the trained percep-
tons of the analyst. On the contrary
they were, as communicated to Eos
dick, coherent, dramatic, picturesque,
which, if they fell short of the round
ed completeness of the invented story,
were strikingly like reels inconsecu-
lively viewed in some cinema of en-
trancing interest.
Further: Priscilla was not hysteri-
cal, EeurOtic or anemic. Neither was
she of unsound mind. HallucinatiOns,
trance and ecstasy take shape only in
the miasmata of insanitary mental and
physical states. The man who since
her earliest days had adored and
watched over her, knew few minds
more clear of vision, unprepossessed
by illusions, or capable of straight,
honest reasoning. But it was not more
sane than her well nourished, groomed
and guarded body.
To certainty, however, the
dreams" were telepathic And Eos
dick had already seen they could be
stimulated by auto-suggestion-
when Priscilla had suffered a sense of
translated identity while pulling over
her portrait of 'Leonora." So, too,
without question, they fell within the
definition of telaesthesia as "any di-
rect sensation or perception of objects
or conditions independent of the rec
ogniZed channels of the senses, and
also under such circumstances that no
known mind external to the percipi-
ent's can be suggested as the source of
the knowledge thus gained" But in
I'll
there was no known mind with
which Priscilla's could conceivably
communicate with such intimate SYM
pathy whilst she slept, but only Leo
nora's."
But was "Leonora" anything more
than a fancy born of subliminal rec
ignition by Priscilla of the fact that
she was the vessel of dual personal
ity? Or, If there were a real Leonora,
what was the nature of the affinity
that linked her mind with Priscilla's?
Indisputably Leonora was to Pris-
ella living fact, associate personal
ity leading an independent and factual
existence. On the other hand, con-
stantly by word of mouth and in writ
ing Priscilla referred to Leonora is
her ''other SeIf'-a plain and direct
lead to the solution expressed by the
term dual personality. And Gas Philip
had told the girD in the unconsidered,
spontaneous phraseology of a naive
subject the key to the riddle may fire.
quently be found.
And yet, Fosdick had repeatedly to
remind himself. the projection of a
secondary personality through any
considerable distance in space, or the
creation of a new and strange en-
vironment for its activities, was a phe-
nomenon as yet even to be suggested
by the most pretentious charIatan or
the most credufous pseudo-scientific
student of the psychic
Nevertheless, he felt constrained
Professionally TO adopt the hypothesis
of dual personality and upon 1t base
the beginnings of his survey.