The Foundations of PersonalityCosimo, Inc., 1. mai 2005 - 416 pages Man's interest in character is founded on an intensely practical need. In whatsoever relationship we deal with our fellows, we base our intercourse largely on our understanding of their characters. . . . Because the feelings are in part mirrored on the face and body, the experience of mankind has become crystallized in beliefs, opinions, and systems of character reading which are based on physiognomy, shape of head, lines of hand, gait, and even the method of dress and the handwriting. . . . A few of the methods used have become organized into specialties, such as the study of the head. Introduction, The Foundations of Personality |
Contents
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THE ENVIRONMENTAL BASIS OF CHARACTER | 25 |
MEMORY AND HABIT | 51 |
STIMULATION INHIBITION ORGANIZING ENERGY CHOICE | 70 |
HYSTERIA SUBCONSCIOUSNESS AND FREUDIANISM | 86 |
EMOTION INSTINCT INTELLIGENCE AND WILL | 99 |
EXCITEMENT MONOTONY AND INTEREST | 124 |
ENERGY RELEASE AND THE EMOTIONS | 164 |
COURAGE RESIGNATION SUBLIMATION PATIENCE | 197 |
THE EVOLUTION OF CHARACTER WITH ESPECIAL REF | 213 |
THE METHODS OF PURPOSEWORK CHARACTERS | 257 |
THE QUALITIES OF THE Leader and THE FOLLOWER | 275 |
SEX CHARACTERS AND DOMESTICITY | 293 |
PLAY RECREATION HUMOR AND PLEASURE Seeking | 314 |
RELIGIOUS CHARACTERS DISHARMONY IN CHARACTER | 328 |
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action activity admiration altruism anger anhedonia arises aroused beauty become belief blame body brain brings called cerebrum character child conduct conscience consciousness coöperation courage desire disappear disease disgust effort egoistic emotion energy ergy excitement experience fact fatigue fear fellow Freudian girl glands habit hate Havelock Ellis heredity human humor idea ideal impulse individual inferiority inhibition instinct intel intelligence interest kind larvæ living marriage means memory mental mind mood moral nature neopallium nervous ness neurasthenic neurologist never one's organism pain passion patient perhaps person play pleasure praise punishment purposes qualities race reach reaction religion result sadism and masochism seek sex organs sexual sincerity social stimuli struggle subconscious superiority sympathetic nervous system tastes teaching tender feeling thenia things thought tion tradition true uncon vegetative nervous system wish woman women
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