Dreams and semiotic schemas as intermediaries between soul and body

The author discusses another way of connecting the soul and the body. But first, the author considers the solution of this question in the Ancient World, by Aristotle, Descartes and Z.Freud. Descartes' solution boils down to the assumption that the bodily process (the movement of animal spirits) creates conditions for the mental (passions), while Freud's has a more complex picture: mental (mental) processes create conditions for bodily transformation, and those, in turn, 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 (the author's childhood dream and C. Jung's teenage memory). The author shows that all the main processes involved in the construction of dreams are twofold: psychological, i.e. related to the soul, and physiological, related to the body. On the one hand, desire as a program is a semiotic and psychic education in which events to be realized are set through language. On the other hand, a program is a physiological process that creates pressure and tension in the body that requires resolution. The dual nature of programs and other dream processes allows us to consider dreams as intermediaries between the soul and the body. Schematics play a major role in rational thinking. Scheme ‒ This is the construction (invention) of an individual, which makes it possible to resolve a problematic situation, thereby setting a new reality and vision, and opening up the opportunity to act in a new way. At the end of the article, the author problematizes the question of the desire of a psychologist and a physician to get an answer to the question of how the mechanisms that allow the transition from the soul to the body and back, which determine these transitions, are arranged. In his opinion, this formulation of the question is not entirely correct. Not transitions, but interdependence, the simultaneous action of the soul and body, mediated by dreams and schemas.

soul, body, dreams, schemes, conscience, mentality, intermediaries, reconstruction, problems, situation