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Becoming : basic considerations for a psychology of personality / by Gordon W. Allport
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TextSeries: Terry lecturesPublication details: USA : Yale University Press, c 1955Description: ix, 106 pages ; 21 cmISBN: - 0300000022
- 9780300000023
- ARCH YNDC 155.28 A441B
- BF38 .A38
- BL48 .T48 v.29
- BF 38 A441 1955
Contents:
Summary: Modern psychology is in a dilemma, Allport states, for it has trimmed down the image of man as a free democratic being. He appraises the present state of the psychology of personality and indicates its relevance to human welfare and religion. This volume is based on the Terry Lectures, which the author delivered at Yale University in 1954
The case for and against psychology -- The Lockean tradition -- The Leibnitzian tradition -- The goal of psychology -- The dilemma of uniqueness -- Disposition -- Unsocial beginnings -- The importance of early affiliation -- Tribalism and individualism -- Is the concept of self necessary? -- The proprium -- The fusion of propriate functions -- Critique -- Chance, opportunistic, and oriented becoming -- Motivation and tension -- Conscience -- Schemata of value -- Anxiety and culture -- Freedom -- Structure of personality -- The religious sentiment -- Epilogue : psychology and democracy
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| ARCH YNDC 155.2 M499P Personal identity / | ARCH YNDC 155.2 T284N The nature of personality : a course of lectures / | ARCH YNDC 155.23 P655B The blank slate : the modern denial of human nature / | ARCH YNDC 155.28 A441B Becoming : basic considerations for a psychology of personality / | ARCH YNDC 155.28 B787P Personalism / | ARCH YNDC 155.28 I29P Personality, human and divine; being the Bampton lectures for the year 1894, | ARCH YNDC 155.9 G721F Forgiveness and revenge / |
Includes bibliographical references and index
The case for and against psychology -- The Lockean tradition -- The Leibnitzian tradition -- The goal of psychology -- The dilemma of uniqueness -- Disposition -- Unsocial beginnings -- The importance of early affiliation -- Tribalism and individualism -- Is the concept of self necessary? -- The proprium -- The fusion of propriate functions -- Critique -- Chance, opportunistic, and oriented becoming -- Motivation and tension -- Conscience -- Schemata of value -- Anxiety and culture -- Freedom -- Structure of personality -- The religious sentiment -- Epilogue : psychology and democracy
Modern psychology is in a dilemma, Allport states, for it has trimmed down the image of man as a free democratic being. He appraises the present state of the psychology of personality and indicates its relevance to human welfare and religion. This volume is based on the Terry Lectures, which the author delivered at Yale University in 1954
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