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Rabbit Hole · First copyrighted 1919; selected 1921 French edition · French

De l’inconscient au conscient

by Gustave Geley

About this book

Gustave Geley develops a broad account of the relationship between consciousness, the organism and evolution. Beginning with ordinary biological and psychological processes, he turns to subconscious activity and the phenomena examined by early psychical researchers.

The argument moves from individual development to a proposed understanding of universal evolution, then considers its ethical and philosophical consequences. Presented as a continuation of L’Être subconscient, this is a distinct complete work, with its own synthesis, case discussions and illustrations. The original French 1921 edition preserves the three parts, concluding chapters and source notes of a work first copyrighted in 1919.