... and notions of the structure of the world itself, nor of the constructive input of human-kind as the agent of such organised knowledge. But at the end of the eighteenth century, the argument ... descriptions of the unconscious as &apos ;the darkness in which the roots of our being disap-pears, the insoluble secret in which rests the magic of life'.26 Many of these languages of the unconscious ... on the use of iron in medicine, and Schelling's brother, the physician Karl Schelling, on animal magnetism and on the theory of the soul. Insofar as these studies intrude on the Ages of...