of necessity still exist; consequently it survives death, though, indeed, only as a breath-like image, much as we have seen reflections of our own faces mirrored in water.[6\1] It cannot, indeed--this airy substance--be grasped or held like the once viable self; and hence comes its name, the "psyche". The primeval argument for such a counterpart of man is repeated by Achilleus himself (_Il._ xxiii, 103 f.) when his dead friend appears to him and then vanishes again: so, then, ye Gods, there yet lives in Hades' house a psyche and shadowy image (of man), but there is no midriff in it (and consequently none of the faculties which preserve the visible man alive). {8} The dreamer, then, and what he sees in his dream proves the existence of an _alter ego_ in man.[7\1] Man, however, also observes that his body may suffer a deathlike torpor without the second self being occupied with dream experiences. In such moments of "swoon", according to Greek thought and actual Homeric expression, "the psyche has left the body."[8\1] Where had it gone? No man could tell. But on this occasion it comes back again: whereupon the "spirit is gathered again into the midriff". If ever, as happens in the case of death, the psyche should become completely separated from the visible body, then the "spirit" will never return. But the psyche, which in those temporary separations from the body[9\1] did not perish, will not vanish into nothingness now. § 3 So far experience takes us, from which primitive logic arrived at very much the same conclusions all over the world. But, we may proceed to ask, where does this liberated psyche go? What becomes of it? Here begins "the undiscovered country" and it might appear that at its entrance there was a complete parting of the ways.