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Becoming; basic considerations for a psychology of personality
- Author
- Allport, Gordon W. (Gordon Willard), 1897-1967.
- Title
- Becoming; basic considerations for a psychology of personality / by Gordon W. Allport.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1955.
- Description
- 106 p. ; 22 cm.
- Series
- The Terry lectures
- Contents
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- 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 individuation
- 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.
- Kinsey subjects
- Psychology.
- ISBN
- 0300000022 9780300000023