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De la multiplicité des états de conscience

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Issued
  • 1885
Description
  • 22 year old V. was raised by an abusive mother. Arrested for vagrancy, he was sentenced to a penal farm, given basic education, and viewed as “extremely intelligent”. While V. collected grapevines one day, a snake wrapped itself around his arm. The terror triggered hysterical-epileptic convulsions, leaving paraplegia. Therefore, he was trained in tailoring. Another attack occurred two months later, his paraplegia disappeared. V. forgot tailoring skills and his character completely changed. Six successive, unique conscious states emerged over a decade in which V. was alternately: (1) a full right side hemiplegic, talkative, rude, overly familiar; (2) a left side hemiplegic (trunk and limbs), reserved, polite, respectful, with no awareness of where he was; (3) a left side hemiplegic (limbs only), polite, remembering nothing of previous life except brief vineyard employment; (4) a full paraplegic, timid, remembering tailoring skills, sad, unaware of current events, unable to read or write; (5) without paralysis, agile, childlike, memories of childhood and attendant abuse recovered; (6) without feeling on left side, convulsing, hallucinating, an excellent reader who believed himself an enlisted marine. V. was committed to at least eight psychiatric/penal institutions in which he was treated with iron, steel, magnet, electrical, and transfer therapies.
  • V., 22 ans, était maltraité par sa mère. Vagabond, il est arrêté et renvoyé dans une maison de correction, ou il est éduqué et trouver « fort intelligent ». Quand V. ramassait des sarments, une vipère s’enroule autour de son bras, et la frayeur le jette dans une série d’attaques convulsives hystèro-épileptiques, qui mènent progressivement á la paraplégie. On le place á l’atelier des tailleurs. Deux mois plus tard, une deuxième attaque, et la paraplégie disparut, mais V. avait oublié de coudre et son caractère s’était transformé. Six états s’ensuivent : (1) hémiplégie droit, ou V. est bavard, impoli, familier ; (2) hémiplégie gauche (face et membres), ou il est réservé, poli, respectueux, sans conscience d’où il est ; (3) hémiplégie gauche (membres seules), ou il est poli, se souvenant pas sa vie antérieure, sauf son travail dans un vignoble ; (4) paraplégie complète, ou V. est timide, triste, sans conscience des événements de l’époque, incapable d’écrire ni lire, se souvenant coudre encore ; (5) sans paralysie, agile, enfantin, se souvenant de son enfance et de l’abus qu’il a subi ; (6) sans paralysie, convulsif, lit très bien, se croyant soldat de la marine. V. a été renvoyé dans huit institutions psychiatriques/pénaux, éprouvant les thérapies du fer, de l’acier, de l’aimant, de l’électricité, et du transfert.
MODS Note
  • Description and subjects in French and English provided by Mary Ann Winter-Messiers.
Subject
Keyword
  • hystérie
  • dissociation
  • hémiplégie
  • convulsions
  • abus d’enfance
  • Hôpital St Anne
  • l’état somatique
  • la paraplégie
  • hystero-epileptiques
  • fer doux
  • altération spontanée de la personnalité
  • mémoire limitée
  • l’état de conscience
  • la frayeur
  • l’acier
  • électricité
  • l’état psychique
  • asile psychiatrique
  • somnambulisme
  • colonie pénitentiaire
Identifier
  • diss_bour_delam_1885
Source
  • University of Oregon Knight Library, B2.R4. Revue philosophique de la France et de l'étranger, vol. 20, p. 411-416.
Contained in Journal
  • Revue philosophique de la France et de l'etranger
Citation
  • Bourru, H. & Borut, P. (1885). De la multiplicite des etats de conscience. Revue philosophique de la France et de l'étranger, 20, 411-416.
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  • Scanned in reflective mode with Silverfast AI 6.0 on Microtek 9800 scanner. Levels adjusted from 0 - 1.00 - 255 to 14 - 1.00 - 221 prior to capture. Scanned image enters Photoshop as 24 bit color. Archived tiff is saved. Adobe Photoshop used to reorient and crop image, set and neutralize shadow and highlight point, adjust midtone contrast, set images to black and white, and delete information from irrelevant/separate text/articles. Image enters OmniPage Pro 15 for OCR with related images for an article. The OCR is uncorrected. A single page Adobe PDF document is created from the tiff page images as "PDF with image on text" and a plain text file of the transcript.
Submission Date
  • 02/06/2015
Modified
  • 07/13/2022
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