ABSTRACT
OUR original plan in these lectures was to begin with the examination of particular mental processes,—sensations and ideas, feelings and voluntary actions,—and then to turn our attention to the interconnection of all these processes in consciousness. But when we came to analyse complex states of mind, it seemed better to take their components separately and examine them as we examined the simpler phenomena of mind, although their isolation was no more than an abstraction. We have accordingly spoken in the preceding lectures only of the ideational side of consciousness. We could not leave feeling and will altogether out of account, because of their importance for the apperception and association of ideas But we said nothing of the relation of feeling and internal voluntary action to the other affective states of consciousness and to external voluntary action. We will now glance briefly at the more complex affective processes.
