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The Structure of Wholes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Andras Angyal*
Affiliation:
Worcester State Hospital, Worcester, Mass

Extract

In attempting to clarify the problem of personality integration the writer gained the impression that the difficulty of such a task does does not lie alone in the paucity of usable factual data but it is due, even to a greater extent, to the inadequacy of our logical tools. Such a handicap is felt not only in the study of personality, but in the study of wholes in general. Here the attempt will be made to develop some concepts which may be useful for the understanding of the structure of wholes.

Type
Research Article
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Footnotes

1

The following discussion forms the first section of the chapter “Personality Integration” in a monograph entitled “Foundations for a Science of Personality” which is being prepared for publication.

References

Notes

2 A. Meyer, Ideen und Ideale der biologischen Erkenntniss, Leipzig, 1934 (p. 35).

3 J. von Uexküll, Theoretische Biologie, 2nd ed., Berlin, 1928 (p. 87).