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Quotation from The Principles of Psychology by William James
“An hysterical woman abandons part of her consciousness because she is too weak nervously to hold it together”
The Principles of Psychology, Vol. I, Chapter VIII: The Relations of Minds to Other Things
James summarises Pierre Janet's view of split consciousness in hysteria, before asking how far such splitting exists in everyone.
Citation: "An hysterical woman abandons part of her consciousness because she is too weak nervously to hold it together" — William James, The Principles of Psychology, Vol. I, Chapter VIII: The Relations of Minds to Other Things. (id the-principles-of-psychology-q5)
Portrait: William James by Alice M. Boughton, c. 1907, platinum print, from the National Portrait Gallery - NPG-NPG 87 37James-000001 (cropped), Alice Boughton, Public domain.
