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A PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY
BY
JAMES SULLY
AUTHOR OF "SENSATION AND INTUITION," "PESSIMISM," ETC.
THIRD EDITION
LONDON
KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH & CO., 1, PATERNOSTER SQUARE
1887 ( The rights of translation and of reproduction are reserved )
~THE INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC SERIES.~ VOL. XXXIV.
PREFACE.
The present volume takes a wide survey of the field of error, embracing
in its view not only the illusions of sense dealt with in treatises on
physiological optics, etc., but also other errors familiarly known as
illusions, and resembling the former in their structure and mode of
origin. I have throughout endeavoured to keep to a strictly scientific
treatment, that is to say, the description and classification of
acknowledged errors, and the explanation of these by a reference to
their psychical and physical conditions. At the same time, I was not
able, at the close of my exposition, to avoid pointing out how the
psychology leads on to the philosophy of the subject. Some of the
chapters were first roughly sketched out in articles published in
magazines and reviews; but these have been not only greatly enlarged,
but, to a considerable extent, rewritten.
J. S. Hampstead, April, 1881.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. THE STUDY OF ILLUSION. Vulgar idea of Illusion, 1, 2; Psychological treatment of subject,
3, 4; definition of Illusion, 4 7; Philosophic extension of idea,
7, 8.
CHAPTER II. THE CLASSIFICATION OF ILLUSIONS. Popular and Scientific conceptions of Mind, 9, 10; Illusion and
Hallucination, 11 13; varieties of Immediate Knowledge, 13 16; four fold
division of Illusions, 16 18.
CHAPTER III. ILLUSIONS OF PERCEPTION: GENERAL. Psychology of Perception : The Psychological analysis of Perception,
19, 20; Sensation and its discrimination, etc., 20, 21; interpretation
of Sensation, 22, 23; construction of material object, 23, 24;
recognition of object, specific and individual, 24 27; Preperception
and Perception, 27 31; Physiological conditions of Perception, 31 33;
Visual and other Sense perception, 33, 34. Illusions of Perception : Illusion of Perception defined, 35 38;
sources of Sense illusion, 38 40: (a) confusion of
Sense impression, 40 44; (b) misinterpretation of Sense impression, 44;
Passive and Active misinterpretation, 44 46; Passive Illusions as
organically and extra organically conditioned, 46 49.
CHAPTER IV. ILLUSIONS OF PERCEPTION continued . A. Passive Illusions (a) as determined by the Organism.
Results of Limits of Sensibility : Relation of quantity of Sensation to
that of Stimulus, 50 52; coalescence of simultaneous Sensations,
52 55; after effect of Stimulation, 55, 56; effects of prolonged
Stimulation, 56 58; Specific Energy of Nerves, 58, 59; localization
of Sensation, 59 62; Subjective Sensations, 62 64. Results of Variation of Sensibility : Rise and fall of Sensibility,
64 67; Paræsesthesia, 67, 68; rationale of organically conditioned
Illusions, 68, 69.
CHAPTER V. ILLUSIONS OF PERCEPTION continued . A. Passive Illusions (b) as determined by the Environment.
Exceptional Relation of Stimulus to Organ : Displacement of organ,
etc., 70 72. Exceptional Arrangement of Circumstances in the Environment :
Misinterpretation of the direction and movement of objects, 72 75;
misperception of Distance, 75, 76; Illusions of depth, relief, and
solidity in Art, 77 81; Illusions connected with the perception of
objects through transparent coloured media, 82 84; visual transformation
of concave into convex form, 84 86; false recognition of
objects, 86, 87; inattention to Sense impression in Recognition,
87 91; suggestion taking the direction of familiar recurring experiences,
91, 92.
CHAPTER VI. ILLUSIONS OF PERCEPTION continued . B. Active Illusions. Preperception and Illusion, 93 95... Continue reading book >>
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