“s Büchlein vom Leben nach dem Tode (Little Book of Life After Death). The composer Gustav Mahler read Fechner as a student, and he identified with Fechner when writing his Second Symphony, his Third, and Das Lied von der Erde. Furthermore, he influenced Sigmund Freud, who refers to Fechner when introducing the concept of psychic locality in his The Interpretation of Dreams that he illustrates with the microscope-metaphor. Fechner”
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