Intensity, and for a time a spurty diathesis, is as instinctive and desirable as are the copious minor automatismswhich spontaneously give the alphabet out of which complex and finer motor series are later spelled by the conscious will.
Automatisms are often a sign of the difficulty of tasks.
Some automatisms refuse to be controlled by the will, and both they and it are often overworked.
The writer believes that there are many more automatismsthan appeared in his returns.
It is these that are so liable to disorder in the many automatisms and choreic tics we see in school children, especially if excited or fatigued.
The rapid preformed automatisms fail to give relief, or perhaps the situation presents so many complex sensory excitations as to cause mutual interference and inhibition of all reaction.
Examining his subjects with reference to their hypnotic sensibility and to such automatisms as hypnagogic hallucinations, odd impulses, religious dreams about the time of their conversion, etc.
This characteristic--provable by actual observation and experiment--distinguishes our automatisms from various seemingly kindred phenomena.
As a first step in our analysis, we may point out certain main characters which unite in a true class all the automatisms which we are here considering--greatly though these may differ among themselves in external form.
The wide collection of first-hand experiences of sensory automatisms of every kind which he initiated, and which the S.
Proceeding to the study of motor automatisms, we have found a third group of cases which independently confirm in each of these lines in turn the results of our analysis of sensory automatisms both in sleep and in waking.
The results of these inquiries show that a great number of sensory automatisms occur among sane and healthy persons, and that for many of these we can at present offer no explanation whatever.
That these can exist concurrently in the same organism our study of hypnotism has already shown, and our study of motor automatisms will still further prove to us.
But our automatisms are not idiopathic but idiognomonic; they may indeed be associated with or facilitated by certain states of the organism, but they are neither a symptom of any other malady, nor are they a malady in themselves.
The answer to this question involves, as we shall presently see, the profoundest conception of theseautomatisms to which we can as yet attain.
Comparing this list of motor automatisms with the sensory automatisms enumerated in Chapter VI.
The assimilation which I make between sensory automatisms and dreams, crystal vision and telepathy, appears to me to find support in these facts.
I combine these two categories of automatisms because the automatism is seldom purely phonetic.
Auditory phenomena may be divided into two categories: provoked automatisms, and spontaneous automatisms or clairaudience.
Perhaps they are only simple coincidences, but, as with sensory automatisms already described, I cannot help thinking, that coincidence does not explain everything.
I rank this phenomenon with automatisms because, nearly always, it has appeared to me to be due to involuntary, or unconscious movements.
Certain automatismsother than writing are observable: e.
There is therefore a rapprochement between these sensoryautomatisms and dreams and telepathy.
Everything points to the conclusion that the instinctive automatisms have been gradually acquired and hereditarily fixed by natural selection and other factors of inheritance.
In the operation of the purposeful automatisms of instinct which arouse one another into activity in certain sequences, there is also a time interval, filled out by internal, dynamic brain-processes as in the case of the will.
But there are also secondary automatisms or habits which arise through the frequent repetition of plastic activities and are therefore especially characteristic of man’s enormous brain-development.
The cerebrum splits up and controls itsautomatisms (divide et impera).
The explanation is the result of the disintegration of the psychical complex; the feeling of the strangeness of such automatisms then comes in to help, as soon as conscious attention is directed to the automatic act.
In this last case it is probable that the hypnotic effect of the automatisms succeeded in achieving a partial transformation of the lethargy into hypnosis.
Janet observes that the subconscious automatisms have a hypnotic influence and can bring about complete somnambulism.
In most subjects, motor automatisms will be obtained in a more or less high degree if contra-suggestions do not intervene as obstacles.
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