Two experiments in automatic writing demonstrate that consciously chosen words, thoughts and acts can mean more than one thing at a time: their conscious or manifest content on the one hand, and a latent unconscious content on the other. The author discusses the psychical dynamisms employed by the experimental subjects in order to accomplish a conscious task which possesses another, unconscious, meaning. Attention is drawn to the need for an experimental approach to the problems of psychical dynamisms; and parallels are drawn between the experimental behaviour manifested and similar phenomena seen in the psycho-analysis of neuroses.