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Excerpt from Diseases of Personality
It will be necessary, even at the risk of increasing the already extant confusion, to investigate what teratical, morbid, or simply rare, cases can teach us concerning the formation and disorganization of per sonality, yet without assuming to treat the subject in its totality.
Personality being the highest form of psychic in dividuality, there arises the preliminary question What is the individual? There are few problems that in our time have been more discussed among natural scientists, or remain more obscure in regard to the lower degrees of animal existence. This is not the right moment to speak of it in detail. At the close of this work, after studying the constitutive elements of personality, we shall consider it in its totality. Then will occur the time, to compare it with the lower forms, through which nature has essayed to produce it, and to show, that the psychic individual is the expression of an organism; in conformity with the latter, it is either low, simple, incoherent, or complex and unified.
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