ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author shows that the soul and the psyche are one reality but seen from different perspectives. The soul in the Bible means the vital force in man that imparts life. He wants to take one fragment from a more comprehensive endeavour and investigates the ways in which psychoanalysis could be enriched through being open to the influence of certain concepts and goals that are usually considered to be the province of religion. The author looks at just one aspect of this investigation. Both the religious tradition and the psychoanalytic one stress the reality of the soul and psyche. Theologians have stressed the spiritual nature of man's soul. Aristotle believes that the soul has different parts: a vegetative, an animal, and a rational one. Aristotle's theory gives a much better account of development than does Plato's.
