EXPERIMENTS IN PSYCHOLOGY Davis PSYCHOLOGY OF LEARNING Dorcus and
Jones HANDBOOK OF EMPLOYEE SELECTION Dunlap RELIGION ITS FUNCTIONS
IN HUMAN LIFE Ghiselli and Brown PERSONNEL AND INDUSTRIAL
PSYCHOLOGY Gray PSYCHOLOGY IN HUMAN AFFAIRS Guilford FUNDAMENTAL
STATISTICS IN PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCA TION Guilford PSYCHOMETRIC
METHODS Hurlock ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT Hurlock CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Johnson ESSENTIALS OF PSYCHOLOGY Krech and Crutchfield THEORY AND
PROBLEMS OF SOCIAL PSY CHOLOGY Lewin A DYNAMIC THEORY OF
PERSONALITY Lewin PRINCIPLES OF TOPOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY Maier
FRUSTRATION Maier and Schneirla PRINCIPLES OF ANIMAL PSYCHOLOGY
Miller EXPERIMENTS IN SOCIAL PROCESS Moore PSYCHOLOGY FOR BUSINESS
AND INDUSTRY Morgan and Stellar PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY Page
ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY Pillsbury AN ELEMENTARY PSYCHOLOGY or THE
ABNORMAL Reymert FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS Richards MODERN CLINICAL
PSYCHOLOGY Seashore PSYCHOLOGY OF Music Seward SEX AND THE SOCIAL
ORDER Stagner PSYCHOLOGY OF PERSONALITY Wallin PERSONALITY
MALADJUSTMENTS AND MENTAL HYGIENE John F. Dashiell was Consulting
Editor of this series from its inception in 1931 until January 1,
1950. PRINCIPLES OF TOPOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY BY KURT LEWIN Professo r
of Child Psychology, Iowa Child-Welfare Research Station University
of Iowa TRANSLATED BY FRITZ HEIDER Assistant Professor, Department
of Education, Smith College AND GRACE M. HEIDER FIRST EDITION
SDCTEC IMPRESSION McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, INC, NEW YORK AND
LONDON 1936 COPYRIGHT, 1936, BY THE MCGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, INC.
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STA1ES OP AMERICA All rights reserved. This
book, or parts thereof j may not be reproduced in any form without
permission of the publishers. THE MAPLE PRESSCOMPANY, YORK, PA, To
THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY Jerusalem PREFACE DR. WOLFGANG KOHLER
Swarthmore College Swarthmore, Pa. DEAR KOHLER This book is the
result of a very slow growth. I remember the moment when more than
ten years ago it occurred to me that the figures on the blackboard
which were to illustrate some problems for a group in psychology
might after all be not merely illustrations but representations of
real concepts. Much interested in the theory of science, I had
already in 1912 as a student defended the thesis against a then
fully accepted philo sophical dictum that psychology, dealing with
manifolds of coexist ing facts, would be finally forced to use not
only the concept of time but that of space too. Knowing something
of the general theory of point sets, I felt vaguely that the young
mathematical discipline topology might be of some help in making
psychology a real science. I began studying topology and making use
of its concepts, which soon appeared to me particularly fitted to
the specific problems of psychology. However, this undertaking
expanded rapidly, forcing me to consider wider and wider fields of
psychology and to face more and more involved problems. That is the
reason why this book has seen quite a number of unfinished and
unpublished editions, and why it does not yet contain the vector
psychology. The main diffi culty has not been the mastering of the
mathematical problems as uch, at least insofar as the topological
problems are concerned. After several attempts to employ the more
complicated concepts of topology, I found it both sufficient and
more fruitful to refer to the most simple topological concepts
only. Vector psychology will, of course, require a moreelaborate
mathematical setup and will in all probability even make
it-necessary to enter a somewhat undeveloped field of mathematics.
But the main difficulty was the dealing with problems which lie, so
to say, between psychology and mathematics...
General
Imprint: |
Read Books
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
March 2007 |
First published: |
March 2007 |
Authors: |
Kurt Lewin
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 24mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
352 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4067-4679-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Psychology >
General
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LSN: |
1-4067-4679-7 |
Barcode: |
9781406746792 |
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