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imaginary representations, as to destroy the 

 power of recognising realities. 



Many instances of disturbance of the sensory 

 spheres are connected with a persistent state 

 of dreaming. (Cf. Bessmer, Grundlagen der 

 Seelenstorungen, pp. 54-55.) The personality of 

 the patient is not altered in this state, as 

 Juliusburger maintains he is only unable to 

 recognise his personality. 



6. * All these arguments prove irresistibly that there 

 can be no simple soul unit of supernatural origin. 

 Such an immortal simple unit could not suffer disease 

 and decay. The fact that disease can attack the 

 inner personality of a man shows that we are not 

 justified in asserting that disease attacks not the 

 soul, but only its organ. 



Answer to No. 6. All these arguments by no 

 means prove that a simple soul unit cannot exist. 

 That it can exist is sufficiently proved by my 

 critical answers to Juliusburger s five preceding 

 remarks. 



Juliusburger starts here, as before, from an 

 obviously erroneous hypothesis. He repre 

 sents the human soul as purely spiritual, with 

 no intimate connection with the body, and in 

 no part of its activity referable to any organs 

 of the body. That such a soul could not suffer 

 from disease, i.e. could not be disturbed in its 



