Representative of the author's thinking and development are the German scientists, Binswanger, Bleuler, Goldschmidt, Goldstein, Gruhle, Jaspers, Klages, Kraepelin, Kretschmer, and Scheler. Even the reader who is acquainted with these authors, their work and ways of expression, will find it almost impossible to reconcile himself to the difficulties of the text spread over three hundred eighty-eight pages, and the meager return in usable knowledge and meaningful ideas. The stock-piling of semantic blanks may be illustrated by a translation (p. 71): 'Human consciousness and the feeling of being one's self originate as results of a relatively overestimated onrush of static functions in the process of experiencing… Consciousness and individualities are products of a specifically human adaptive adjustment in the inner battle for the preservation of the body-soul unit.'