Health and suggestion : the dialectics of the mind / by Ernst von Feudhtersleben ; translated and edited by Ludwig Lewisohn.

  • Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben
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1919, ©1910
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Credit: Health and suggestion : the dialectics of the mind / by Ernst von Feudhtersleben ; translated and edited by Ludwig Lewisohn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    achieve this end more rapidly and effectively. Thus in the life of the spirit there are vary- ing degrees of a loss of liberty in impulse and action. ‘There is the night of the spirit and here no counteraction is efficacious; there is the twilight of the spirit, still capable of sane desiring if not of willing. This stage is amenable to the help of my doctrines. Be- tween the two is a third stage — the true sick- ness of the soul. Here the will has not died; here, therefore, healing is possible, but not through the mind of the patient but through that of another. To offer a radical analysis of. these conditions would be inadvisable. But even without verging on the dangerous domain of metaphysics we may master cer- tain preliminary and fundamental concep- tions. The unsophisticated man feels himself to be an entity and lives without further con- scious reflection. Speculation destroys this spiritual innocence and a division enters into our life. ‘The facts discovered by a trained [25 ]