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Since disturbances of the body's activity are often also expressed in more or less specific pain experiences, one can also speak of the '''sense of pain'''. Tissue damage and injuries caused by mechanical, thermal and chemical effects are registered by the free sensory nerve endings of corresponding nociceptors (from {{Latin|nocere}} "to harm"), which are present in almost every tissue of the human body.  
Since disturbances of the body's activity are often also expressed in more or less specific pain experiences, one can also speak of the '''sense of pain'''. Tissue damage and injuries caused by mechanical, thermal and chemical effects are registered by the free sensory nerve endings of corresponding nociceptors (from {{Latin|nocere}} "to harm"), which are present in almost every tissue of the human body.  
== Coenaesthesis ==
In [[medicine]], dull bodily sensations that are often difficult to localise are called '''coenaesthesis''' (from {{Greek|κοινος}} ''koinos'' "general" and {{lang|grc|αἴσθησις}} ''aísthēsis'' "perception, sensation") or '''girdle sensation'''. Common synonymous terms are also: life feeling, body feeling, vital feeling or common feeling. Basically, it is a more or less general sensation or perception of one's own [[body]] and its state of being. Typical perceptions in this area are hunger, thirst, nausea, nausea, urge to urinate, sexual arousal, etc. In various mental disorders, coenaesthesia can also occur as [[hallucination]]s.
The term "coenaesthesia" was coined in 1794 by the Halle psychiatrist [[w:Johann Christian Reil|Johann Christian Reil]] (1759-1813) and his doctoral student Hübner<ref>Jürgen Court, Arno Müller: ''Jahrbuch 2014 der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Sportwissenschaft e.V.''. LIT Verlag Münster, 2016, ISBN 9783643132451, S. 71 [http://books.google.de/books?id=OhYlDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA71#v=onepage google].</ref> and later illuminated by René A. Spitz (1887-1974) from the perspective of developmental psychology, especially with regard to the mother-child relationship<ref>[[WikipediaDE:Stavros Mentzos|Stavros Mentzos]]: ''Neurotische Konfliktverarbeitung. Einführung in die psychoanalytische Neurosenlehre unter Berücksichtigung neuerer Perspektiven'', Fischer-Taschenbuch, Frankfurt 1992, ISBN 3-596-42239-6; p. 94 (Keyword: „coenaesthetisch“)</ref><ref>[[w:René A. Spitz|René A. Spitz]]: ''Vom Säugling zum Kleinkind. Naturgeschichte der Mutter-Kind-Beziehungen im ersten Lebensjahr'', Klett, Stuttgart 1974</ref>. The French psychiatrist Ernest Dupré (1862-1921) also frequently used this term<ref>[[WikipediaDE:Uwe Henrik Peters|Uwe Henrik Peters]]: ''Wörterbuch der Psychiatrie und medizinischen Psychologie''. 3. Auflage, Urban & Schwarzenberg, München 1984 (Keywords: „Zönästhesie“, p. 626; „Vitale Leibempfindungen“, „Vitalgefühle“, p. 606)</ref>.
[[w:Carl Gustav|Carl Gustav]] Jung saw coenaesthesia as a higher imaginative complex related to the perception of the self<ref>[[w:Carl Gustav Jung|Carl Gustav Jung]: ''Experimentelle Untersuchungen'', Gesammelte Werke, Band 2, Walter-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-530-40077-7; Kap. XVIII. Ein kurzer Überblick über die Komplexlehre, § 1352, p. 625</ref>. In fact, the sense of life forms an essential basis for the [[sense of I]].


== Literature ==
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The sense of life or life sense is one of the twelve physical senses that Rudolf Steiner spoke of in his theory of the senses. Through the sense of life we perceive our general inner physical condition. The perception of inner organ activity, which normally remains largely unconscious, is today referred to in medicine as visceroception (from Latin: viscera and recipere "to take in"). It is mediated by corresponding visceroceptors, which are receptive to stimuli from the visceral system and the thoracic cavity. In this way, hunger, thirst, urge to urinate or visceral pain, for example, are perceived. The so-called "intuitive" gut feeling is also related to this.

Since disturbances of the body's activity are often also expressed in more or less specific pain experiences, one can also speak of the sense of pain. Tissue damage and injuries caused by mechanical, thermal and chemical effects are registered by the free sensory nerve endings of corresponding nociceptors (from Latin: nocere "to harm"), which are present in almost every tissue of the human body.

Coenaesthesis

In medicine, dull bodily sensations that are often difficult to localise are called coenaesthesis (from Greek: κοινος koinos "general" and αἴσθησις aísthēsis "perception, sensation") or girdle sensation. Common synonymous terms are also: life feeling, body feeling, vital feeling or common feeling. Basically, it is a more or less general sensation or perception of one's own body and its state of being. Typical perceptions in this area are hunger, thirst, nausea, nausea, urge to urinate, sexual arousal, etc. In various mental disorders, coenaesthesia can also occur as hallucinations.

The term "coenaesthesia" was coined in 1794 by the Halle psychiatrist Johann Christian Reil (1759-1813) and his doctoral student Hübner[1] and later illuminated by René A. Spitz (1887-1974) from the perspective of developmental psychology, especially with regard to the mother-child relationship[2][3]. The French psychiatrist Ernest Dupré (1862-1921) also frequently used this term[4].

Carl Gustav Jung saw coenaesthesia as a higher imaginative complex related to the perception of the self[5]. In fact, the sense of life forms an essential basis for the sense of I.

Literature
References to the work of Rudolf Steiner follow Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works (CW or GA), Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach/Switzerland, unless otherwise stated.
Email: verlag@steinerverlag.com URL: www.steinerverlag.com.
Index to the Complete Works of Rudolf Steiner - Aelzina Books
A complete list by Volume Number and a full list of known English translations you may also find at Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works
Rudolf Steiner Archive - The largest online collection of Rudolf Steiner's books, lectures and articles in English.
Rudolf Steiner Audio - Recorded and Read by Dale Brunsvold
steinerbooks.org - Anthroposophic Press Inc. (USA)
Rudolf Steiner Handbook - Christian Karl's proven standard work for orientation in Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works for free download as PDF.
  1. ↑ Jürgen Court, Arno Müller: Jahrbuch 2014 der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Sportwissenschaft e.V.. LIT Verlag Münster, 2016, ISBN 9783643132451, S. 71 google.
  2. ↑ Stavros Mentzos: Neurotische Konfliktverarbeitung. Einführung in die psychoanalytische Neurosenlehre unter Berücksichtigung neuerer Perspektiven, Fischer-Taschenbuch, Frankfurt 1992, ISBN 3-596-42239-6; p. 94 (Keyword: „coenaesthetisch“)
  3. ↑ René A. Spitz: Vom Säugling zum Kleinkind. Naturgeschichte der Mutter-Kind-Beziehungen im ersten Lebensjahr, Klett, Stuttgart 1974
  4. ↑ Uwe Henrik Peters: Wörterbuch der Psychiatrie und medizinischen Psychologie. 3. Auflage, Urban & Schwarzenberg, München 1984 (Keywords: „Zönästhesie“, p. 626; „Vitale Leibempfindungen“, „Vitalgefühle“, p. 606)
  5. ↑ [[w:Carl Gustav Jung|Carl Gustav Jung]: Experimentelle Untersuchungen, Gesammelte Werke, Band 2, Walter-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-530-40077-7; Kap. XVIII. Ein kurzer Überblick über die Komplexlehre, § 1352, p. 625
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