{giggle}
Well, further down the page, my inquiring mind encountered:
"[The melancholic's] physical body, which is intended to be an instrument of the higher members, is itself in control, and frustrates the others. This the melancholic experiences as pain, as a feeling of despondency. Pain continually wells up within him. This is because his physical body resists his etheric body's inner sense of well-being, his astral body's liveliness, and his ego's purposeful striving."
Maybe I'm to understand this as a sort of metaphysical multiple-personality disorder. Is that even a DSM
thing at this point? I forget.