Note 6 — Chapter X · THE SUBCONSCIOUS[5]

I object to the term “Subliminal,” because it is understood in a cosmic, or metaphysical sense. The term “co-conscious” is limited and refers to independently functioning, contemporaneous personalities, or mental systems. The term “Unconscious” is misleading, because it may refer to the metaphysics of Hartmann. At best it simply means nervous processes which, as such, belong to neurology, physiology, but not to the domain of abnormal psychology.

The term “subconscious,” used by me in “The Psychology of Suggestion,” means tracts of mental states which may or may not function in the total mental reaction of the individual.