Outlines Of The History Of Psychology PDF Download

Excerpt from Outlines of the History of Psychology In the earliest times the "soul" was an object of interest from three points of view. One of these was the religious. It is clear that religious needs, even in their most primitive form, must lead to the development of ideas of a separate, invisible being-the soul. Under the incentive of religious life, the experiences of dream and death lend themselves easily to the formation of such ideas. In dreams a shadow of the self is supposed to fly to all parts of the world and to have intercourse with other shades, including those of the dead; and in death an invisible something vanishes with the last breath, perhaps to the regions of spirits and demons. These experiences are so interpreted as to give rise to the general notion that shades and breath-souls carry on their existence after death, and that they are, during life, independent beings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.