The reason I write this separate from the recent post on Demystifying Freud, is because I found it extremely significant, and it's such a minor instance, that I didn't want it getting lost in the descriptive:
The episode is one which Freud witnessed when he went to Paris on a fellowship to study with Jean-Martin Charcot, a renowned neurologist who was conducting scientific research into hypnosis.
'Jean had hypnotized a woman, and under the state of hypnosis had told her 'to open the window at 1 pm'. (this was done at ten am).
She was out of hypnosis in ten minutes, and back to normal life. She was later attending class in the institute, and at 1 pm she got up and opened a window. A colleague asked her why she was opening the window, and she responded saying she was suddenly feeling warm. (She had absolutely no recall of the instruction given earlier).'
What really struck me in this instance, is not as much carrying out an instruction given during hypnosis, (because that is known and expected) but how an instruction fed into the unconscious state, actually travels into the conscious state with a completely justified rationalization in the present.
It's enormous in implication. Almost to say that 'rationalization' is as subjective as opinion.
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