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And here at once there forces itself on our attention the question, What exactly is to be understood by the term "illusion"? In scientific works treating of the pathology of the subject, the word is confined to what are specially known as illusions of the senses, that is to say, to false or illusory perceptions. And there is very good reason for this limitation, since such illusions of the senses are the most palpable and striking symptoms of mental disease. In addition to this,
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Dickens, Charles, 277.
Direction, illusory sense of, in vision, 66, 71, 73;
in hearing, 72, 75.
Disease. See Abnormal life.
Dissolution. See Evolution.
Doubt, starting-point in philosophy, 350.
Dreams, relation of, to illusions of sense, 18, 130;
and waking experience, 127;
theories of, 128;
physiology of, 131;
extent of, in sleep, 132;
psychological conditions of, 136;
excitants of, 139, 143;
exaggeration in, 147;
symbolism of, 149;
as results of automatic activity of centres, 151;
as results of association, 153;
structure of, 156;
incoherent, 156;
coherent, 161;
action of feeling in, 164;
play of associative dispositions in, 168;
co-operation of attention and intelligence in, 172;
limits of intelligence in, 180;
after-dreams, 183, 274;
relation of, to hypnotic condition, 185;
experience of, in relation to errors of memory, 273.
E.
Eccentricity, law of, 59.
Ego. See Self.
Emotion, and illusion of perception, 103;
and hallucination, 115;
and bodily sensations, 150;
control of dreams by, 164;
introspection of, 199;
and illusion of introspection, 203;
and Γ¦sthetic intuition, 213;
and illusion of memory, 270;
and illusion of belief, 306, 324;
and cognition generally, 357, note[159].
Empiricism, philosophic, 348.
Ennui, and sense of time, 250.
Environment, sources of sense-illusion in, 47, 48, 70;
view of, in mental disease, 290, 326;
view of, in normal life, 323;
action of, in assimilating belief, 339.
Error, immediate and mediate, 6, 334.
Esquirol, J.E.D., 12, note[2].
Evolution, relation of, to dissolution, 122;
of power of introspection, 209;
of power of insight, 230;
and self-assertion, 320;
evolutionist's view of error, 339;
doctrine of, as science, 346.
Exaggeration, in interpretation of sensations, 65;
in dream-interpretation, 147;
in memory, 269.
Expectation, preliminary to perception, 30;
and illusory perception, 93, 102, 106;
nature of, 295;
and memory, 298;
of new experience, 301;
of remote events, 302;
measurement of duration in, 302;
action of imagination in, 305;
extension of meaning of, 307, 308.
Experience, effect of, in perception, 22, 68, 85, 86, 91;
external and internal, 194, 210;
revivals of waking, in dreams, 152;
effects of present, on retrospection, 267;
anticipation of new, 301.
External world. See World.
F.
Fallacy and illusion 6, 335;
of testimony, 265.
Familiarity, sense of, in new objects, 272, 281.
Fechner, G.T., 51.
Ferrier, Dr., 32, note[12], 58, note[26].
Fiction, as producing illusion, 278, 279, 311.
Fitness. See Adaptation.
Flattery, rationale of, 200, 222.
Forgetfulness and illusion, 278, 279, 311.
Free-will, doctrine of, 207, 342, 356.
Future. See Expectation.
G.
Galton, F., 117.
Ghosts. See Hallucination.
Goethe, 116, 117, 280 and note[131].
Griesinger, W., 13, note[2], 63, note[31], 66, note[32], 115, 118, note[62],
119, note[64] , 120, note[66], 290, note[135], 327, note[146].
Gruithuisen, 143, 144.
Gurney, E., 224, note[109].
H.
Hall, G.S., 186, note[102].
Hallucination, and illusion, 11, 109, 111, 112, 121;
and subjective sensation, 63, 109, 121;
sensory and motor, 66;
nervous conditions of, 112-114;
incomplete and complete, 113;
as having either central or peripheral origin, 113;
causes of, classified, 115;
in sane condition, 116;
in insanity, 118;
visual and auditory, 119;
dreams regarded as, 139, 151;
hypnagogic, 143;
after-dreams and ghosts, 183;
of memory, 271;
relation of, to errors of belief, 322;
intuition of external world regarded as, 355.
Happiness, feeling of, 200.
Harmful, illusion as, 188, 229, 292, 339.
Harmless, illusions as, 124, 292, 341.
Hartley, D., 139, 256, note[124], 279.
Hearing, as mode of perception, 34, 48;
localization of impression in, 60;
sense of direction in, 72;
activity of, in sleep, 140;
and muscular sense, 171.
Heidenhain, Dr., 186-188.
Helmholtz, H., 22, 23, note[7], 44, 51, 54 and note[22], 55, note[23],
57, 67, note[33], 78, note[39], 80, 85, note[43], 88, 90, 207, note[105].
Heraclitus, 137.
Heredity, and illusion of memory, 280;
action of, in perpetuating intuition, 359.
Hering, E., 67, note[33].
Hodgson, Shadworth H., 347, note[153].
Holland, Sir H., 277.
Hood, Thomas, 146.
Hope, illusory. See Expectation.
Hoppe, Dr. J.I., 51, 58, note[26].
Horwicz, A., 145, note[85].
Hume, D., 355.
Huxley, Professor T., 119, note[63].
Hyperæsthesia, 65.
Hypnotism, 185.
Hypochondria, 65.
Hypothesis, as illusory, 310, 311.
I.
Idealism, 348.
Identity, cases of mistaken, 267.
Identity, personal, confusion of, in dreams, 163;
consciousness of, 241, 267, 282, 285;
illusory forms of, 283;
gross disturbances of, in normal life, 287;
in abnormal life, 289;
momentary confusions of, 293.
Illusion, definition of, 1;
varieties of, 9;
extent of, 328;
rationale of, 331, 337.
Image (physical). See Reflection.
Image (mental), in perception, 22;
seat of, 32;
in dreams, 138;
mnemonic, 236.
Imagination, play of, in perception, 95, 99;
and sense-illusion, 106;
nature of, in dreaming, 136, 161;
as antecedent of dream, 152, 158;
as poetic interpretation of nature, 224;
memory corrupted by effect of past, 264, 273, 277;
present, creating the semblance of recollection, 267, 271;
play of, in expectation, 305;
as element of illusion generally, 333.
Immediate. See Cognition.
Individual, and common experience, 26, 27, 137, 209, 214, 336;
dream-experience as, 44, 68;
internal experience as, 209;
memory as, 232;
belief and truth, 338.
Inference, and immediate knowledge, 6, 334;
in perception, 22, 26, 68;
in belief, 295.
Innate, recollection as, 280;
principles, 295, 356.
Insane, sense-illusions of, 63, 65, 111;
hallucinations of, 118;
dreaming and state of, 182;
mnemonic illusions of, 278, 289;
beliefs of, 327.
Insight, nature of, 217;
illusions of, defined, 220;
passive illusions of, 220;
histrionic illusion, 222;
active illusions of, 223;
poetic interpretation of nature, 224;
value of faculty of, 228.
Interpretation, in correct perception, 22;
of impression and experience, 70;
and volition, 95;
and fixed habits of mind, 101;
and temporary attitude of mind, 102;
of sensations in dreams, 137, 147;
of internal feelings, 203;
of others' feelings, 217;
of nature by poet, 225;
recollection as, 242.
Introspection, nature of, 14, 189;
illusory forms of, 190;
confusion of inner and outer experiences, 194;
inaccurate inspection of feelings, 196;
presentation and representation confused, 199;
feelings and inferences from these, 203;
moral self-scrutiny, 204;
philosophic, 205;
value of, 208.
Intuition. See Cognition.
Intuitivism, 348.
J.
Jackson, Dr. J. Hughlings, 27, note[9], 33, 123, note[67].
Johnson, Dr., 116.
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