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Es besteht ein solches Zusammengehören im gesunden Organismus, daß das Obere, irgendeine obere Tätigkeit, sei es eine Tätigkeit, die zusammenhängt mit dem Atmen, sei es eine Tätigkeit, die zusammenhängt mit dem Nerven-Sinnes-Apparat, irgendwie ein Unteres bezwingen muß, mit einem Unteren in vollem Einklang sich abspielen muß. Und es besteht sofort — und das wird uns später führen auf ein wirkliches Begreifen des Krankheitsprozesses — eine Unregelmäßigkeit im Organismus, wenn irgendwie die Vorherrschaft gewinnt, die Oberherrschaft gewinnt ein Unteres, so daß es zu stark ist für die entsprechende Tätigkeit im Oberen, oder ein Oberes, so daß es zu stark ist für eine entsprechende Tätigkeit im Unteren. Es müssen sich immer die Tätigkeiten des Oberen zu den Tätigkeiten des Unteren so verhalten, daß sie in einer gewissen Weise einander entsprechen, daß sie einander bezwingen, daß sie so zueinander verlaufen, wie sie, ich möchte sagen, zueinander orientiert sind. Da gibt es eine ganz bestimmte Orientierung. Sie ist individuell für die verschiedenen Menschen, aber es gibt eine ganz bestimmte Orientierung des ganzen oberen Verlaufes der Prozesse zu dem ganzen unteren Verlauf der Prozesse.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":205,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/312/1920-03-22/p007"},{"locus":"GA 312/1920-03-22/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Nun handelt es sich darum, daß man den Übergang finden könne von diesem gesund wirkenden Organismus, in dem das Obere dem Unteren entspricht, zu dem kranken Organismus. Wenn man, ich möchte sagen, ausgeht von den Andeutungen des Kranken in dem, was der Paracelsus Archaeus genannt hat, was wir Ätherleib nennen, oder wenn Sie es so frisieren wollen, daß es Ihnen von außen, von den Leuten, die nichts wissen wollen von diesen Dingen, nicht übelgenommen wird, so können Sie ja auch sagen, Sie wollen reden zunächst von den Andeutungen des Krankseins im Funktionellen oder Dynamischen, also von den Anflügen, die gewissermaßen erst da sind zum Kranksein — wenn wir von diesen ausgehen, wenn wir davon reden, was sich zuerst im Ätherleib oder im bloßen Funktionellen ankündet, so kann man auch von einer Polarität reden, aber einer Polarität, die schon das Nicht-Entsprechende, die Unregelmäßigkeit in sich trägt. Und das entsteht auf die folgende Weise.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":152,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/312/1920-03-22/p008"},{"locus":"GA 312/1920-03-22/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Nehmen wir an, daß im Unteren, also im Nahrungsaufnehmen und im Verdauungsapparat im weiteren Sinne, präponderiert dasjenige, was die inneren chemischen oder auch organischen Kräfte der aufgenommenen Nahrung sind. Im gesunden Organismus muß es so sein, daß alle diejenigen Kräfte, welche in den Nahrungsmitteln selber wirken, welche den Nahrungsmitteln immanent sind, die wir also außen im Laboratorium an den Nahrungsmitteln untersuchen, durch das Obere überwunden sind, daß sie für die Wirksamkeit des Inneren im Organismus gar nicht in Betracht kommen, daß da gar nichts von äußerer Chemie, von äußerer Dynamik und dergleichen geschieht, sondern alles das ganz überwunden ist. Aber es kann so kommen, daß das Obere nicht stark genug ist in seinem Entsprechen, um das Untere wirklich ganz zu durchfassen, um es gewissermaßen ganz zu durchkochen, ich könnte auch sagen, zu durchätherisieren, das würde etwas genauer gesprochen sein, dann ist im menschlichen Organismus ein eigentlich nicht zu ihm gehöriger präponderierender Vorgang, der ein Vorgang ist, wie er sich sonst in der Außenwelt abspielt, wie er sich nicht abspielen sollte im menschlichen Organismus. Es zeigt sich ein solcher Vorgang, weil nicht gleich der physische Leib voll ergriffen wird von solchen Unregelmäßigkeiten, zunächst in dem, was man eben das Funktionelle nennen könnte, in dem Ätherleib, dem Archäus. Wenn wir einen gebräuchlichen Ausdruck wählen wollen, der nur genommen ist, ich möchte sagen, von bestimmten Formen dieser Unregelmäßigkeit, so müssen wir den Ausdruck Hysterie wählen. Hysterie wollen wir wählen als Ausdruck — wir werden später noch sehen, daß der Ausdruck nicht schlecht gewählt ist —, als Terminus für das zu große Selbständigwerden der Stoffwechselprozesse. Die eigentlich hysterischen Erscheinungen im engeren Sinne sind ja nichts anderes als ein Bis-zur-Kulmination-Treiben dieses unregelmäßigen Stoffwechsels. In Wirklichkeit haben wir auch in dem bis zu den sexuellen Symptomen hinreichenden hysterischen Prozesse im wesentlichen nichts anderes vorliegen als solche Unregelmäßigkeiten des Stoffwechsels, die eigentlich Außenprozesse sind ihrem Wesen nach, die nicht im menschlichen Organismus sein sollten, Prozesse also, denen gegenüber sich das Obere zu schwach erweist, um sie zu bewältigen. Das ist der eine Pol.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":336,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/312/1920-03-22/p009"},{"locus":"GA 312/1920-03-22/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"Dann, wenn solche Erscheinungen mit dem hysterischen Charakter auftreten, dann haben wir es zu tun mit einem Zu-stark-Werden der außermenschlichen Tätigkeit in den unteren Teilen der menschlichen Organisation. Aber es kann dieselbe Unregelmäßigkeit der Wechselwirkung auch eintreten dadurch, daß der obere Prozeß nicht richtig verläuft, daß er so in sich verläuft, daß er die obere Organisation zu stark in Anspruch nimmt. Er ist der entgegengesetzte, gewissermaßen das Negativ der unteren Prozesse, er nimmt die oberen Prozesse zu stark in Anspruch. Er hört gleichsam auf, bevor er sich durch das Herz vermittelt mit der unteren Organisation. Er ist also zu stark geistig, zu stark — wenn ich den Ausdruck gebrauchen darf — organisch intellektuell. Dann tritt der andere Pol dieser Unregelmäßigkeiten auf, die Neurasthenie. Diese beiden, ich möchte sagen, noch im Funktionellen steckenden Unregelmäßigkeiten der menschlichen Organisation müssen vor allen Dingen ins Auge gefaßt werden. Denn sie sind gewissermaßen die Defekte, die sich ausdrücken im Oberen, ausdrücken im Unteren. Und man wird allmählich verstehen müssen, wie die Polarität in der menschlichen Organisation dem einen oder dem anderen Mangel unterliegt. Man hat also in der Neurasthenie ein Funktionieren des Oberen, das zu stark die Organe des Oberen in Anspruch nimmt, so daß dasjenige, was eigentlich, vermittelt durch das Herz von oben aus, im Unteren geschehen soll, schon im Oberen geschieht, schon da abgemacht wird, so daß die Tätigkeit nicht hinunterdringt, vermittelt durch die Stauung im Herzen, in die untere Strömung. Sie sehen auch, daß es wichtiger, viel wichtiger ist, ich möchte sagen, die äußere Physiognomie des Krankheitsbildes zu beobachten als durch die Autopsie die defekt gewordenen Organe. Denn was die Autopsie in den defekt gewordenen Organen zeigt, sind doch nur Folgeerscheinungen. Das Wesentliche ist, das ganze Bild, die Physiognomie der Krankheit ins Auge zu fassen. Diese Physiognomie wird Ihnen immer geben in einer gewissen Weise ein nach der einen oder der anderen Richtung zunächst inklinierendes Bild nach dem Neurasthenischen oder nach dem Hysterischen. Aber natürlich, man muß diese Ausdrücke erweitern gegenüber dem gewöhnlichen Wortgebrauch.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":332,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/312/1920-03-22/p010"},{"locus":"GA 312/1920-03-22/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Nun, hat man sich ein genügendes Bild gemacht von diesem Zusammenwirken des Oberen und des Unteren, dann wird man von da ausgehend allmählich erkennen, wie das, was zunächst nur funktionell vorliegt, also — wie wir sagen würden — im Ätherischen sich abspielt, ergreift das Organisch-Physische, indem es gewissermaßen in seinen Kräften dichter wird, und wie man davon sprechen kann, daß dasjenige, was zuerst nur als hysterische Andeutung vorhanden ist, in verschiedenen Unterleibserkrankungen gewissermaßen physische Gestalt annehmen kann, wie nach der anderen Seite in Halskrankheiten, Kopfkrankheiten die Neurasthenie organische Gestalt annehmen kann. Dieses, ich möchte sagen, Abdrücken dieser zunächst funktionellen physischen Erscheinungen im Neurasthenischen und Hysterischen zu studieren, das wird außerordentlich wichtig sein für die zukünftige Medizin. Es wird die Folge der, ich möchte sagen, organisch gewordenen Hysterie sein: Unregelmäßigkeiten in dem ganzen Verdauungsvorgang, überhaupt in allen Vorgängen des Unterleibes. Aber dasjenige, was so in einem Organismus vorgeht, das wirkt doch wiederum auf den ganzen Organismus zurück. Das darf nicht außer acht gelassen werden, daß dasjenige, was als Unregelmäßigkeiten vor sich geht, wiederum auf den ganzen Organismus zurückwirkt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":177,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/312/1920-03-22/p011"}],"beads":[{"from":[9,10],"to":[7,8],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[11,12,13,14,15,16],"to":[9,10,11],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}