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Footnote 46:

For specific instances, see Lecture VII.

Footnote 47:

Morton Prince: Experimental Evidence for Coconscious Ideation, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, April-May, 1908.

Footnote 48:

For further details, see Lecture VI, p. 169.

Footnote 49:

Prince: Mechanism and Interpretation of Dreams, Jour. of Abn. Psych., October-November, 1910.

Footnote 50:

If, lacking this knowledge of the data, any one chooses to insist that it was not the conserved residua of previous thoughts, but of the dream itself (the only alternative entertainable explanation) which induced, after waking, the hallucinatory phenomena and blindness, we still fall back upon the same principle, namely, that of the subconscious functioning of conserved residua of a conscious experience producing a physiological (and psychological) effect.

Footnote 51:

According to recent researches of Sidis in conjunction with Kalmus, and later with Nelson (The Nature and Causation of the Galvanic Phenomenon, Psychological Review, March, 1910) similar galvanic phenomena under similar conditions may be caused by the generation of an electric current within the body.

Footnote 52:

The test word (e. g., boat, stone, hat, etc.) of course represents an idea which may have various associations in the mind of the subject.

Footnote 53:

Morton Prince and Frederick Peterson: Experiments in Psycho-Galvanic Reactions from Coconscious (Subconscious) Ideas in a Case of Multiple Personality, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, April-May, 1908.

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