282 SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE ORGANISM 



we in the first place study " my body " as the most immediate 

 object in biology. 



My Body as my " Object ' 



If we now try to relate the results of our discussion to 

 " my body " in this sense of " my object," we find the most 

 remarkable fact that certain processes which we are forced to 

 regard as going on in my body may show a gap in the midst 

 of them, so that there exists a point where their consecutive 

 univocal line is interrupted in such a manner that it is 

 impossible to understand its second half from its first half, as far 

 as bodily processes i.e. conscious phenomena objectified as 

 relating to " my body " are concerned. There is " reality " 

 between the two halves as far as states presented to conscious- 

 ness are reality, but there is no reality between them as 

 regards " my body." 



From our subjective point of view we gave the name 

 " intra -psychical series " to that line of conscious events 

 which fills the gap in the whole of the phenomena ; from 

 the point of view of natural science we are not allowed to 

 do so, we are not allowed to mix up psychical elements 

 with phenomena which have been objectified into so-called 

 physical ones. But now there must be created some sort 

 of scientifically legitimate correlate to the intra -psychical 

 series of the subjective point of view as advocated before. 

 Here then we meet our old friend the " psychoid " again, a 

 sort of entelechy as a natural factor. 



We thus have shown on the mere basis of subjective or 

 introspective analysis that vitalism is not only possible but 

 necessary as far as " my body ' is regarded as an object of 

 biology. From the point of view of strict idealistic episte- 



