Reversive anomalies in the study of the neuroses / by Irving C. Rosse.

  • Rosse, Irving C. (Irving Collins), 1842-1901.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Reversive anomalies in the study of the neuroses / by Irving C. Rosse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    being transmitted, by infinitesimal dilutions, down to the present races. An attempt to point out with precision the laws of atavism results in the statement that every organized being is the product of two forces, one of which is the resultant of his com- plete genealogical tree, from the first origin of the organic branch from which he springs, and the other is furnished by all the circumstances that have acted upon the individual himself dur- ing all the duration of his development. It is further asserted that when men or animals mani- fest impulses of an excitable character, and ex- hibit pleasures and sympathies that seem to be out of relation to their culture and personal ex- perience, or to the culture of the family or the race, whether in dreams or in waking, the source of these must be found in long past or ancestral memories produced according to the law of re- version. Perhaps not the least curious of the modes of atavism is its influence in the province of the mind. Philogenic heritage manifests itself in connection with memory. According to Galton, the celebrated Hellenist, Dr. Porson, whose mem- ory was surprising for its extent and fidelity, transmitted this peculiarity to one of his grand- children, and Lady Hester Stanhope claims to have inherited her grandfather's memory. As- suming that certain ancestral s)mesies have been ancestrally realized in time and place, the rever- sion to them may become the starting point of a new evolution. The capacity of reproduction or a new develoment of the transmitted antecedent synesies or substrata is ancestral memory. The faculties that preside over the representative signs of ideas, it is said, are also subject to the law of correlative evolution and reversion which