Foundations of Psychiatry [!]

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Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Company, 1911 - 136 páginas
 

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Página 47 - Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.
Página 14 - The body of a protozoan is not the homologue of a single cell in the body of a metazoan," rather as he contends, the protozoan does not correspond to a single cell of the metazoan but to the whole body. With the advance of biological science the cell failed to maintain its place as an ultimate structural element of living matter and the elementalist continued his search in regions of different 8 Op.
Página 83 - Hysteria therefore is a disease of personal synthesis, a form of mental depression characterized by the retraction of the field of personal consciousness and a tendency to the dissociation and emancipation of the systems of ideas and functions that constitute personality.
Página 22 - physiological unity is not broken by cell-boundaries," and that "comparative embryology reminds us at every turn that the organism dominates cell-function, using for the same purpose one, several, or many cells, massing its material and directing its movements and shaping its organs, as if cells did not exist, or as if they existed only in complete subordination to its will, if I may so speak.
Página 113 - the aggregate of images, and perception of matter these same images referred to the eventual action of one particular image, my body.
Página 28 - The broadest definition of it is that a system tends to change so as to minimize an external disturbance.
Página 22 - ... of the relation of the parts to the whole and of the whole to the parts, how organization develops and as it develops becomes structuralized. In the light of such an hypothesis such formulations as Sach's law15 that "growth determines division and not division growth" acquires added significance. It can be understood why it is that, as Whitman so well says,18 " physiological unity is not broken by cell-boundaries...
Página 52 - ... permit the world to be made a playground for devils, but imposes upon Evil disabilities which minimize its power to thwart the purposes of God and to affect the course of history. § 26. And so we find that Evil is that which resists the Evolution of the world, and fights a losing battle against the tendencies of things. It owes its persistence simply to this, that the end is not yet, that the purpose of the worldprocess is still being achieved, that the discordant elements are still being harmonized,...
Página 13 - The organism, we know, is a system the single constituents of which are inorganic in themselves ; only the whole constituted by them in their typical order or arrangement owes its specificity to entelechy. Therefore the single constituents of an organism also stand in energetical or mechanical possible relations to many external constituents of the inorganic universe. These possible relations may disturb the whole as governed by entelechy : by some such disturbance entelechy, in the first place,...
Página 25 - The principle here, as elsewhere, is that "analysis alone is incapable of interpreting, of understanding organic beings. No natural object which in its nature is more distinctively synthetic than analytic can be understood by knowledge-processes which are more analytic than synthetic.

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