PSYO 1021 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Fortean Times, Freudian Slip, Critical Role

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYO 1021
• Professor: Mac Kinnon Sean

Document Summary

Proposed that the mind and body interact through the brain"s tiny pineal gland the mind was a spiritual, nonmaterial entity. Descartes in his passions of the soul and. The description of the human body suggested that the body works like a machine, that it has material properties. The mind (or soul), on the other hand, was described as a nonmaterial and does not follow the laws of nature. Descartes argued that the mind interacts with the body at the pineal gland. This form of dualism or duality proposes that the mind controls the body, but that the body can also influence the otherwise rational mind, such as when people act out of passion. Most of the previous accounts of the relationship between mind and body had been unidirectional. The church maintained that each human being consists of two distinct but intimately conjoined entities, a material body and an immaterial soul.