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Aetherum (Aether)

Aetherum (Aether) appears in 114 rubrics in the repertory. Of these, 9 are single-remedy rubrics listing only this remedy, and 9 are small rubrics with at most two other remedies. The emphasis lies on Delusions, Language and Speech, Laughing, and Fear. From these emerges the picture of a person whose speech rises to intoxication and whose evenings are overshadowed by nearness of death and fear of suffocation.

Rapture of Speech

Speech is the most striking area. Recorded are rapturous, tempestuous, and enthusiastic speaking, as well as ecstatic and cheerful. Only a single-remedy rubric records that the person talks of his homeland. Laughing resembles the barking of a dog in a single-remedy rubric ("Laughing – barking dog, like a"), and joking stands specifically for the evening. The picture is that of a mood that cannot be damped but overflows into words and sounds.

Evening and Death

The evening is the time when the opposite emerges. Two single-remedy rubrics name the sensation of death and the sensation of being about to die, both in the evening. To these belong fear of suffocation, in the evening and in the dark, fear of impending danger at night, and a hysteria that chooses the evening. One can see in this a threat that becomes physically perceptible with the fading light.

Sounds and Memory

The Delusions are determined by sounds and by the past. The person hears bells ringing, countless ones, softly sounding and lovely, but also those of his own funeral. He believes he has lived an eternity, that he is with the companions of his youth, and feels everything around him as a terrible mystery. Where rapture and horror stand side by side, the rubrics resemble a description of intoxication.

Summary

Aetherum shows in the repertory a person in a state of exaltation. Wordy enthusiasm and acute hearing for the sound of bells stand against a presentiment of death that comes with evening. The connecting element is the loss of the usual center: experience and speech detach from reality, and the fear of suffocating or dying catches up with them.

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