THE TENTH MAN : 5




Every Psyche Has Her Soma


Yes, indeed, and every Soma* has his Psyche. There has never been the one without the other, or the other without the one. A pretty pair of phenomenal counterparts, a very pretty couple of concepts, still imperfectly cognised, particularly the young lady. Otherwise much like all other interdependent complementaries.

But there is one thing odd about them, quite exceptional: they are cognised as one and called a 'self', whereas, like all the others, they are only identical in their mutual negation.

That is what is wrong.


(© HKU Press, 1966)
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*(Ed. note: Here WWW is using the term 'Soma' in its original Greek sense of 'physical body'.)