ABSTRACT
The phenomena of memory are perhaps the most important in people's psychological make-up, and their slightest modifications have great repercussions on their lives. Braid characterizes somnambulism by forgetfulness on waking and calls it a doubling of consciousness. Certain authors have shown that memory has an analogous quality during ordinary dreams, which justifies Dupotet saying: “There is no sleep without somnambulism.” One of the women whom the author has observed for a long time, Rose, before entering the hospital had presented nearly all the symptoms of severe hysteria. Among other things, she had had unusual losses of memory which occurred suddenly following a crisis or a kind of lethargy, and which included one or several of the weeks which preceded the symptom. Memory containsvery important elements, but ones that are in fact subordinate: recognition and localization. These distinctions are, as Ribot says, the contribution of intelligence in memory, nothing more; they do not constitute memory.
