Excerpt from The Sensation of Pain and the Theory of the Specific Sense Energies

The first step in this examination led to the question, How do the several parts in a nexus of processes - connected with stimulus, sense organ or brain, and psychosis present them selves as material for investigation? It is commonly assumed that physical, physiological, and psychical processes are discretely and directly open to investigation. A little re?ection will show the error of such an assumption. A pain stimulus that can be studied without reference to the pain process it excites in a sense organ, a pain organ to be investigated without reference to the pain sensation, a pain psychosis pure and simple to be studied apart from the subject''s judgment or bodily reaction, - these are accessible to no experimental method. In even the simplest experiment it is impossible to deal separately with any one of the three parts of the total psychophysical process.

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