ABSTRACT
In this essay, Spielrein returns to her method of contrasting conscious and unconscious thought by observing both “normal” and clinically diagnosed child and adult subjects with open and closed eyes (cf., Chapter 13 ). She especially attends to the ways in which kinesthetic experience is mirrored in “blind” drawings, which she then discusses in terms of many years of previous research on subconscious and conscious thought and kinesthetic, imagistic, and directed forms of thinking. She analyzes her data with numerous case examples, concluding with twelve specific findings and recommendations that show how this method can be useful both in clinical diagnosis and in pedagogy.
