ABSTRACT
And first and foremost, the work of a great pioneer in psychological thought who, as may happen with pioneers, yet failed to recognise that Semon was prospecting and mapping out the same dark regions he himself helped to open up. I am speaking, with immense admiration and very personal gratitude, of the late M. Th. Ribot. More especially, however, of two cognate though separate, and, I think, very last studies of his, namely that dealing with Mémoire Affective, which appeared in the Revue Philosophique for 1907; and another, which appeared there in 1912 (vol. I, p. 248) under the extraordinarily suggestive title of “Le Rôle latent des Images Motrices.” 1
