Discarnate

Disembodied, opposed to incarnate. Used of that part of man which still subsists after bodily death.

Disintegration Of Personality

Used of any condition where the sense of personality is not unitary and continuous; especially when secondary and transitory personalities intervene; as, for instance, when a hysterical subject calls herself at one time Rose, at another A drienne, etc, with separate chains of memory for each condition.

Dissolutive

Opposed to Evolutive; of changes which tend not towards progress but towards decay.

Dynamogeny

The increase of nervous energy by appropriate stimuli; often opposed to inhibition.

Dysoesthesia

See Anoesthesia.

Ecmnesia

A gap in memory: "a form of amnesia [forgetfulness] in which there is a normal memory of occurrences prior to a given date, with loss of memory of what happened for a certain time after that date." - (Tuke's Diet.). It should be added that the gap of memory may include some period of time previous to the shock or accident which caused it.

Ecstasy

A trance during which the spirit of the automatist partially quits his body, entering into a state in which the spiritual world is more or less open to its perception, and in which it so far ceases to occupy its organism as to leave room for an invading spirit to use it in somewhat the same fashion as its owner is accustomed to use it. See Possession.

Entencephalic

On the analogy of entoptic; of sensations, etc, which have their origin within the brain, not in the external world.

Eugenics

The science of improving the race.

Externalise

This word is used to represent the process by which an idea or impression on the percipient's mind is transformed into a phantasm apparently outside him.

Falsidical

See Hallucination.

Glossolaly

"Speaking with tongues," i.e. automatic utterance of words not belonging to any real language.

Hallucination

Any supposed sensory perception which has no objective counterpart within the field of vision, hearing, etc, is termed a hallucination. Hallucinations may be delusive ox falsidical, when there is nothing whatever to which they correspond; or veridical, when they correspond (as those of which we treat generally correspond) to real events happening elsewhere. A pseudo-hallucination is a quasi-percept not sufficiently externalised to rank as a "fullblown " hallucination. Contrast with illusion and delusion.

Hemi-Anoesthesia

See Anoesthesia.

Heteroesthesia

A form of sensibility decidedly different from any of those which can be referred to the action of the known senses - e.g. the perception of a magnetic field, specific sensibilities to running water, crystals, metals (see Metalloesthesia), etc.

Hyperboulia

See Aboulia.

Hyperoesthesia

See A noesthesia.

Hypermnesia

Defined in Tuke's Dict, as " over-activity of the memory, a condition in which past acts, feelings, or ideas are brought vividly to the mind, which, in its natural condition, has wholly lost the remembrance of them." In my view the subliminal memory retains these remembrances throughout, and their supraliminal evocation implies an increased grasp of natural faculty. *Panmnesia would imply a potential recollection of all impressions.

Hyperpromethia

Supernormal power of foresight; attributed to the subliminal self as a hypothesis by which to explain premonitions without assuming either that the future scene is shown to the percipient by any mind external to his own, or that circumstances which we regard as future are in any sense already existent.

Hypnagogic

Illusions hypnagogiques (Maury) are the vivid illusions of sight or sound - " faces in the dark," etc. - which sometimes accompany the oncoming of sleep. To similar illusions accompanying the departure of sleep, as when a dream-figure persists for a few moments into waking life, I have given the name *hypnopompic.

Hypnogenous

See Hysterogenous.

Hypnopompic

See Hypnagogic.

Hypnotism

See Mesmerism.

Hysteria

"A disordered condition of the nervous system, the anatomical seat and nature of which are unknown to medical science, but of which the symptoms consist in well-marked and very varied disturbances of nerve-function " (Ency. Brit.). For further definition and discussion, see below, Chapter II (Disintegrations Of Personality).

Hysterical blindness, contractures, mutism, oedema, paralysis, etc, signify affections not dependent on any discoverable lesion, but on the defects of nervous co-ordination characteristic of hysteria. Such affections, even when of long standing, may quite suddenly disappear.

Hysterogenous Zones

Points or tracts on the skin of a hysterical person pressure on which will induce a hysterical attack. Hypnogenous zones are regions by pressure on which hypnosis is induced in a hysterical person, by a similar process of self-suggestion.

Ideational

Used of impressions which convey some distinct notion, but not of sensory nature.

Idiognomonic

Not symptomatic of any other condition; indicative only of itself.

Idiopathic

Symptomatic of some special morbid state or condition, which exhibits no other symptom - e.g. idiopathic somnambulism is sleep-walking not associated with any other disease.

Illusion

The misinterpretation of some object actually present to sight, hearing, etc, as when a hanging coat is taken for a man, a ringing in the ears for the sound of a bell, etc.

Imaginal

A word used of characteristics belonging to the perfect insect or imago; - and thus opposed to larval; - metaphorically applied to transcendental faculties shown in rudiment in ordinary life.

Induced

Of phantasms, etc, intentionally produced.

Levitation

A raising of objects from the ground by supposed supernormal means: especially of living persons; asserted in the case of St. Joseph of Copertino, and many other saints; of D. D. Home, and of W. Stainton Moses.