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Principles of Topological Psychology

As someone who has a lifelong interest in Einsteinian Physics, Psychology, and the development of concepts aross time, reading this text is exciting to me because it combines them all together in one volume. This table of contents might explain better: PRINCIPLES OF TOPOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY BY KURT LEWIN Professor of Child Psychology, Iowa Child-Welfare Research Station, University of Iowa 1936 PART I. THE TASK OF PSYCHOLOGY AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF TOPOLOGICAL AND VECTOR PSYCHOLOGY I. THE PRESENT STATE OF PSYCHOLOGY II. FORMULATION or LAW AND REPRESENTATION OF SITUATION Law and individual case The constructive representation of the situation Person and environment; the life space Ways in which the life space is represented. III. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT REPRESENTING LIFE SPACE The life space as the totality of possible events Inventories and systems of behavior Constructive procedure: Summary Good and poor abstraction; the method of approximation. IV. CONTENT AND EXTENT OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL LIFE SPACE Appearance and reality in psychology Experience and psychological existence What is real is what has effects Phenomenal facts and physics Life situation and momentary situation Quasi

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