Abstract
The article discusses another variant of the connection between the soul and the body. But first, the author examines the solution of this issue in the ancient world, Aristotle, Descartes and S. Freud. In Descartes, the solution boils down to the assumption that the bodily process (the movement of animal spirits) creates the conditions for the psychic (passions), while in Freud a complex picture emerges: mental processes create the conditions for bodily transformations, and these, in turn, create conditions for new mental changes. The author bases his own approach on the assumption that dreams and semiotic schemes act as intermediaries between the soul and the body. To substantiate this assumption, he offers a reconstruction and explanation of two cases.
Keywords: soul; body; dreams; schemas; consciousness; psyche; intermediaries
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