abaissement du niveau mental, n.Definitions

Abaissement du niveau mental (n.) weakens ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the ego's hierarchy just enough to set the instincts loose and multiply the personality's centres of gravity.

Abaissement du niveau mental (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Janet's lowering of the mental level, a narrowing of consciousness and slackening of attention that Jung's predecessors saw at the root of dementia praecox.

Abaissement du niveau mental (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the lowering of the association process into something dreamlike; in dementia praecox Jung once traced it to a toxin-like organic agent absent in hysteria.

Abaissement du niveau mental (n.) or ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠dulling of consciousness is a very important precondition for spontaneous psychic phenomena — as Angelucci felt before each saucer vision.