The Human Soul

The Human Soul in Karl Konig's Biography: An Introduction by Richard Steel

I. THE HUMAN SOUL
1. The Mind and the Unconscious
-- Modern psychology and the human soul
-- On mind and soul
-- Approaching the land of the soul
-- The mind, the soul and the unconscious
-- Laughing and weeping
-- Summary
2. Eros and Psyche
-- The three regions of the soul
-- The intentional faculty of the soul
-- The transcendent nature of the soul
-- Desire and discrimination
-- Summary
3. Pain and Anxiety
-- The landscape of the human soul
-- The problem of pain
-- The enigma of anxiety
-- Summary
4. Fear, Shame and Anger
-- The language of the emotions
-- The meaning of anger
-- The phenomena of fear and shame
-- Three companions: fear, shame and anger
-- Summary
5. Mood and Temperament
-- The human moods
-- Emotion, temparement and mood
-- The mechanism of different moods
-- The four temperaments
-- Mood and temperament in humans and animals
-- Summary
6. The Twelve Senses
-- The twelve senses of the human being
-- Sound, music and the intentional faculty
-- Light and the transcendent nature of the soul
-- Summary
7. Consciousness
-- The problem of consciousness
-- The different forms of consciousness
-- 'Awakeness' and the dimensions of consciousness
-- The evolution of consciousness and the unconscious
-- The nature of object consciousness and the soul
-- Summary
8. Dreams
-- The land of dreams
-- The interpretation of dreams
-- The content of dreams
-- The dimensions of dreams
-- Various types of dreams
-- The nature of dreams
-- Summary

II. LECTURES
The Development of Psychology During the Last One Hundred Years
The Evolution of the Soul
Three Levels of the Soul
-- The sentient soul
-- The intellectual soul
-- The consciousness soul

Appendix
1. The divine in the human soul
2. An excerpt from Karl Konig's notebook
3. Introduction to the first German edition (1989)
Notes
Bibliography
Index