Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily.
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.
Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent.
Mental illness, of course, is not literally a 'thing' - or physical object - and hence it can 'exist' only in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist.
As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.
What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die.
The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).
That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.