The troubled conscience and the insane mind / by Charles Blondel ; with an introduction by F. G. Crookshank.

  • Blondel, Charles (Charles Aimé Alfred), 1876-1939.
Date:
1928
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Credit: The troubled conscience and the insane mind / by Charles Blondel ; with an introduction by F. G. Crookshank. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    comparison of rival theories, in the fashion that Masson-Oursel has taught us, in his Comparative Philosophy, we shall better attain a just, even though tem¬ porarily inexpressible, notion about the data in question. Each of the theories now before the psychological world affords us a method of classifying our clinical cases and of constructing, for didactic and clinical purposes if we will, forms of mental alienation or ' clinical entities Each method employs as the index what each author holds to be the dominating psychological phenomenon. For Freud this is, perhaps, the lowering of the censorship : for Bleuler, loss of contact with reality : for Janet, loss of the function of the real; for Blondel, the rise of cenesthema into consciousness. And so on. All this has been particularly well set out, by Villey-Desm6serets, in a valuable essay (Paris, 1924. Jouve et cie.) wherein he echoes Chaslin in saying that it is not so much our duty to accept or reject any one of these rival theories 17 B