Thought v.s. the Soul

Something that interested me greatly in the chapter of, "Body and soul; soul and mind," was the relationship that Arendt draws between the mind and the soul. Specifically in the way that we express the reactions of both in our daily lives. Arendt makes the distinction between the presentation of an emotion, which would be the mind thinking upon the experience and then producing the appearance that if feels is appropriate to said experience, and the actual emotion, which she argues is the domain of the soul, and can no more be displayed in an unadulterated form than our internal organs. The emotions of the soul are first considered and thought upon by the mind, and when they have been transformed by this process, then and only then are they displayed by the body. This, in turn, connects to the idea of self-presentation, or how we want to present ourselves to those around us. When we feel something in our soul, we first consider it, then, depending on the situation or the people that we are in contact with, we can either act on it and display it, or we can ignore it and internalize that feeling. In this, Arendt makes a strong case for her argument that the soul and the mind are not separate from the body.