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Specifically, in addition to the mental response to the external stimulus, there was a phantasy representing an imaginary wish-fulfilment: namely the desire to forsake the study of histology, with the eye-straining search through the microscope, in favor of the study of reflex-action or reflexology.
The handwriting on the label, as I gazed, appeared less and less like script and more like disconnected, scratchy lines or hachures, owing to the formation of lacunae in the inky traces. It became scratchier and scratchier as I wakened. On coming to my senses . . . " "That is enough," we hear Dr. Freud saying, "It is obvious what kind of reflex-action you have in mind!
His hands were deep in his pockets, his shoulders hunched as he swung out of the stable. He was humming over and over the old music-hall favorite, "Good-by, Sis" humming in a desperate effort to keep his nerve. Billy Garrison had touched bottom in the depths. Garrison left Long Island for New York that night. When you are hard hit the soul suffers a reflex-action. It recoils to its native soil.
The bulb, because of certain special reflex-action pathways completed through it, is the portion of the central nervous system concerned in the control of respiration, circulation, and the secretion of liquids. *Work of the Sympathetic Ganglia and Nerves.*—The neurons which form these ganglia aid in controlling the vital processes, especially digestion and circulation.
Jung, no less than Freud, has forgotten that philosophy has become mechanistic since Descartes' famous year of 1637, and Jung would throw us back to the early seventeenth century, with his energic conception of the Libido, or the Ur-libido, now called Horme and sometimes merely elan vital. And this, fifty years after Herbert Spencer's tremendous emphasis on specific studies in reflex-action!
These examples of muscular movements which occur independently of the will, or in spite of it, illustrate what physiologists call reflex-action; as likewise do sneezing and coughing.
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