Human Soul

Karl König (1902-66) was well-known as a physician, author and lecturer. He began his work at the Institute of Embryology at the University of Vienna. In 1940 he founded the Camphill Movement, in Scotland, based on the educational ideas of Rudolf Steiner.

'The universal truths of which Karl König speaks here are as fresh and relevant today as they were when he first began his work on the Human Soul. I would strongly recommend this book.'-- Camphill Correspondence

• The Human Soul in Karl Konig's Biography: An Introduction by Richard SteelI. THE HUMAN SOUL1. 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-- Summary2. Eros and Psyche-- The three regions of the soul-- The intentional faculty of the soul-- The transcendent nature of the soul-- Desire and discrimination-- Summary3. Pain and Anxiety-- The landscape of the human soul-- The problem of pain-- The enigma of anxiety-- Summary4. 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-- Summary5. 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-- Summary6. The Twelve Senses-- The twelve senses of the human being-- Sound, music and the intentional faculty-- Light and the transcendent nature of the soul-- Summary7. 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-- Summary8. 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-- SummaryII. LECTURESThe Development of Psychology During the Last One Hundred YearsThe Evolution of the SoulThree Levels of the Soul-- The sentient soul-- The intellectual soul-- The consciousness soulAppendix1. The divine in the human soul2. An excerpt from Karl König's notebook3. Introduction to the first German edition (1989)NotesBibliographyIndex