{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 312/1920-04-03/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This is the one aspect. On the other hand it may be that the ego is too feeble to hold itself together when it glitters away from the scaffold, that it collapses in its essential quality as ego; and not owing to the faults in its physical vehicle, the scaffold, but to its own. Consider how strange this is: the ego is so feeble that its debris as it were become embedded in the organism. And this occurs because individuals of this particular constitution, when they fall asleep, are not able to take with them the whole of what shimmers and glitters away. Thus the debris remains within the body and proliferates as a sort of soul-like ego. And this type of individual constitution with these exuberations of the soul-like ego, which develop especially during sleep, is one that inclines to tumorous formations. This process is of infinite significance. Persons with tumorous tendencies are those who do not sleep properly, for the reason that remnants of the ego remain after they fall asleep. These remnants and debris are the real excitants of tumours, including malignant growths, and these growths are linked up with the whole complex of symptoms which I have just enumerated. It is a fact that we are faced on the one hand by hypochondria and constipation, and on the other hand, if the organism cannot help itself by making the individual suffer from hypochondria and constipation, it exuberates inwards and the most malignant growths appear. We shall deal with this subject further, but for the moment we are considering merely the general principle.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XIV","site_heading":"The Ego's Framework: Inflammation, Tumors, and Healing","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Aber es kann auch sein, daß das Ich zu schwach ist, um sich, wenn es da herausflimmert, zu halten, daß es gewissermaßen als Ich zerbricht, daß nicht sein Korrelat, das physische Gerüste, so sehr Anlaß gibt zum Zerbrechen, sondern daß es selbst Anlaß gibt zum Zerbrechen. Denken Sie, was man da für eine eigentümliche Erscheinung hat! Da hat man gewissermaßen die Erscheinung, daß das Ich so schwach ist, daß Trümmer von ihm im Organismus sich festsetzen. Es ist auch so, daß Trümmer sich festsetzen, weil das Ich schwach ist. Diese Trümmer setzen sich aus dem Grunde fest, weil, wenn der Mensch, der so organisiert ist, einschläft, er nicht imstande ist, das, was da herausflimmert, immer voll mitzunehmen. Es bleibt im Organismus und wuchert als seelisches Ich drinnen. Diese Organismen, die diese Wucherungen des seelischen Ich haben, die dann besonders stark im Schlafzustande auftreten, das sind die Menschen, die zu Geschwulstbildungen neigen. Das ist ein unendlich wichtiger Prozeß, auf den man da hinsieht. Die Menschen, die zu Geschwulstbildungen neigen, das sind solche, die aus dem Grunde nicht ordentlich schlafen, weil bei ihnen Trümmer des Ich zurückbleiben im Organismus, wenn sie einschlafen. Da steht man dann vor diesen IchTrümmern, die die eigentlichen Veranlasser der auch bösartigen Geschwülste sind und die mit dem ganzen Symptomenkomplex, den ich jetzt aufgezählt habe, zusammenhängen. Es ist wirklich so, wie wenn auf der einen Seite Hypochondrie und Stuhlverstopfung stünden und auf der anderen Seite, wenn der Organismus sich nicht dadurch helfen kann, daß der Mensch Hypochonder und verstopfter Mensch wird, dann der Organismus innerlich auswuchert und die bösartigsten Geschwülste auftreten. 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