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On Potentiality and Actuality in Man

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

J. Stevenson Bushnan
J. Stevenson Bushnan*
Affiliation:
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh; Metropolitan Free Hospital; Laverstock House Asylum, near Salisbury
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Extract

Potentiality refers to an idea sufficiently well known both in physiology and psychology. Thus, in physiology, a serous empty sac is a potential cavity; and, as respects potentiality, in reference to mental phenomena we may conveniently conceive it as parallel to the potentiality of the phenomena of life existing in the germ at the moment of its first detachment from the parent, previous to the commencement of uterine life.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 6 , Issue 34 , July 1860 , pp. 461 - 464
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1860 

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