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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    Tikeragil tit and Suggestion avoid the necessity of a finer distinction. But in truth feeling and imagination are but the passive and active sides of a single element. Any one who is practiced in introspection will recognize here far more than a play on words. We suffer when we turn the sensitive surface of our emotions toward the harsh world; we liberate ourselves from suffering if we offer the resistance of an active imagination. So here, as always, man’s sorrow and joy flow from the same source. That which has power to hurt must equally have power to heal. How destructive the imagination may be, is sufficiently well-known. The unhappy vic- tim of a monomania will not fail finally to create the evil he has so long feared and invited. ‘The story of Boerhave’s pupil is apposite. This youth, while pursuing his course of medical studies, was so profoundly impressed by the great teacher’s description of diseases, that, in due order, the symptoms of each declared themselves in him. Having L544]