TY - BOOK AU - Allport,Gordon W. TI - Becoming: basic considerations for a psychology of personality T2 - The Terry lectures SN - 0300000022 AV - BF38 .A38 U1 - ARCH YNDC 155.28 A441B PY - 1955/// CY - USA PB - Yale University Press, KW - Psychology KW - Personality KW - Personality development KW - Personality Development N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -