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The whole fatality of automatism is in the deed, which has been carried through without the man suspecting or being conscious of it; his physical machine has been the blind instrument of the force of evil he has himself slowly accumulated throughout the ages.— Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution
Deep in the lower body the great sympathetic center, the hypogastric plexus has been acting all the time in a kind of dream-automatism, balanced by its corresponding voluntary center, the sacral ganglion.— Fantasia of the Unconscious
It means the fall into automatism, mechanism, and nullity We know that life issues spontaneously at the great nodes of the psyche, the great nerve-centers.— Fantasia of the Unconscious
The great organs, being obstructed in their spontaneous-automatism, at last with violence arouse the active conscious-centers.— Fantasia of the Unconscious
The horse is presented as an object of terror, which means that to the man's automatic dream-soul, which loves automatism, the great sensual male activity is the greatest menace.— Fantasia of the Unconscious

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