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The New State - Group Organization, the Solution of Popular Government (1918) (Hardcover)
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The New State - Group Organization, the Solution of Popular Government (1918) (Hardcover)
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for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE
GROUP AND THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY POLITICS must have a technique based
on an understanding of the laws of association, that is, based on a
new and progressive social psychology. Politics alone should not
escape all the modern tendency of scientific method, of analysis,
of efficiency engineering. The study of democracy has been based
largely on the study of institutions; it should be based on the
study of how men behave together. We have to deal, not with
institutions, or any mechanical thing, or with abstract ideas, or
"man," or anything but just men, ordinary men. The importance of
the new psychology is that it acknowledges man as the centre and
shaper of his universe. In his nature all institutions are latent
and perforce must be adapted to this nature. Man not things must be
the starting point of the future. But man in association, for no
man lives to himself. And we must understand further that the laws
of association are the laws of the group. We have long been trying
to understand the relation of the individual to society; we are
only just beginning to see that there is no "individual," that
there is no "society." It is not strange, therefore, that our
efforts have gone astray, that our thinking yields small returns
for politics. The old psychology was based on the isolated
individual as the unit, on the assumption that a man thinks, feels
and judges independently. Now that we know that there is no such
thing as a separate ego, that individuals are created by reciprocal
interplay, our whole study of psychology is being transformed.
Likewise there is no "society" thought of vaguely as the mass of
people we see around us. I am always in relation not to "society"
but to some concrete group. When do we ever as a matter of fact
think of "society" ? Are we not always thinking...
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