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

  • Blondel, Charles (Charles AimĂ© 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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    doubt metaphysical. But his meta¬ physics is permeated by a sound and ingenious psychology, which has been put to the test and not found wanting. Ten years before Pierre Marie as clinician and pathological anatomist brought about that great revolution in the domain of aphasia, as early as 1896, Bergson— thus splendidly vindicating the much abused psychology of reflection—Bergson refused to give credence to the then classical theories of aphasia. A precedent this, which undoubtedly gives food for thought! Be that as it may, the important point for us is that these two great movements of thought, opposed though they were in origin, in tendency, and in spirit, yet contrived to meet at least at one point. For very different reasons and with widely diverging aims, they not only made psychologists aware of the influence exercised upon the play of mind by society and language, but urged them to draw their own conclusions from these findings. To come back to myself and my work,