[layevymed]

It depends on the belief system. In ancient christianity, hawaiian metaphysics, egyptian religion, and I think some eastern mysticism(but I'm not sure of that one) what we think of as a "soul" was actually considered 2 parts. Here's what I remember:
ancient christianity- spirit & soul
egyptian- ka and ba
hawaiian metaphysics- almacua (I can't remember the spellings)-translated as "truly dependable pair"
a modern metaphysician studied these and found correlations to modern psychiatric (or psychological)- terms conscious and subconscious and found that most of these terms would have the same characteristics associated with them. The two I remember were
spirit- spark of life- conciousness- verbal, cognitive but no memory or emotion
soul-subconscious-nonverbal- symbolic, where the memory is, all emotion but not capable of verbal communication,
I can't remember where the rest of the terms are placed, but his explanation resonated with me (although not his theology, mind you.)
For those who have a problem with psychological terms being used to describe spiritual terms, remember that the author's premise here is that the brain is used as a receiver for the universal reality, so although modern science sees these attributes as brain produced, he sees them as channeled by the brain, but preexistent (at least the spirit part.)
I haven't directly quoted or remembered his name because I lent out my book like a year ago and forgot. But the book is called "the lost secret of death" I think.