So with light and
darkness, heat and cold, you never can get either all the light, or
all the heat, out of anything. So with God and the devil; so with
everything. Everything is like a door swinging backwards and
forwards. Everything has a little of that from which it is most
remote and to which it is most opposed and these antitheses serve to
explain one another.
Unconscious Memory
A man at the Century Club was falling foul of me the other night for
my use of the word "memory." There was no such thing, he said, as
"unconscious memory"--memory was always conscious, and so forth. My
business is--and I think it can be easily done--to show that they
cannot beat me off my unconscious memory without my being able to
beat them off their conscious memory; that they cannot deny the
legitimacy of my maintaining the phenomena of heredity to be
phenomena of memory without my being able to deny the legitimacy of
their maintaining the recollection of what they had for dinner
yesterday to be a phenomenon of memory. My theory of the unconscious
does not lead to universal unconsciousness, but only to pigeon-holing
and putting by. We shall always get new things to worry about. If I
thought that by learning more and more I should ever arrive at the
knowledge of absolute truth, I would leave off studying. But I
believe I am pretty safe.
Reproduction and Memory
There is the reproduction of an idea which has been produced once
already, and there is the reproduction of a living form which has
been produced once already.
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