Human motives / by James Jackson Putnam.

  • James Jackson Putnam
Date:
1915
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Credit: Human motives / by James Jackson Putnam. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and to feel our sympathies going out, not to a few selected persons, but to men in general, we must learn to know men at their weakest as well as at their strongest points, and to see that the difference be- tween success and failure is a difference of degree. Not only this, but the respects in which men are disguised from them- selves, through repression, act as so many “blind spots,” ^ by virtue of which they become unable to see certain qualities in their neighbors. It is for this reason that many otherwise fine persons are so narrow in their appreciation of their fellow men. These two modes of approach, while apparently so different, have some strik- ing points of resemblance, both in method and in aim. The psycho-analytic mode of approach deals with men primarily on the basis of their concrete experiences since birth, the * I refer to the so-called “blind spot” of the retina, the pres- ence of whieh is not recognized until some device is used for making it apparent.
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