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,
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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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    immediately embodied, but need the touch of the imagination before they can truly appear. Imagination is the mediator among, the mov- ing power behind, the various members of the spiritual organism. Without it the power of representation stagnates, all concepts remain torpid and dead, and all emotion crass and sensual. Hence the vitalizing magic of dreams, the dear children of imagination, hence the might of genius, of poetry ‘the art, and of poetry the spirit of all lofty human endeavor. Imagination, we may add, is the least ex- plored and the least explicable of all the faculties of the soul. As many curious dis- eases show, it seems to cohere with the very structure of the body, primarily with the brain and nerves. It seems to be not only the foundation of all the more delicate facul- ties of the soul, but, in truth, the connecting link between soul and body. Kant, the philosopher par excellence, who was hardly the man to sing a hymn to that goddess “ ever [51]
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