ABSTRACT
Things that we cannot grasp directly must be made comprehensible through analogy: the one just touched on will accomplish this to a significant degree if we have recourse here to fact that in Kieser's Tellurism a case is mentioned 'where the command given by the hypnotist to the somnambulist to perform a certain action in the waking state was carried out by her when she awoke, without her clearly recalling the command'. All of this rests on the dull aftereffect of forgotten prophetic dreams and gives us the key to an analogical understanding of instinct and mechanical drives. On the other hand, as stated, the mechanical drives of insects cast much light on the effectuality of incognizant will in the inner workings of the organism and its formation. For there is nothing at all forced in seeing in the anthill or in the beehive the image of an organism, laid open and brought to the light of cognizance.
