A Dynamic Theory of Personality - Selected Papers

by Kurt Lewin

Selected PapersClothback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in fair all round condition, suitable as a study copy.

Genres: Psychology, Philosophy

300 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 1, 1935

About the author

A German-American psychologist, known as one of the modern pioneers of social, organizational, and applied psychology in the United States. Kurt Lewin, exiled from the land of his birth, made a new life for himself

Reviews

[Denis Vasilev · Rating 4 out of 5]

Набор статей Курта Левина. Меня интересовала его теория социального поля, тут к сожалению о ней не так много. Язык некоторых статей прямо скажем зубодробительный

[Robert Bogue]

It’s hard to work in learning and motivation, or even remotely care about how people work, without stumbling into Kurt Lewin’s work. Most of the time, people quote the high level and don’t go back to read his writing directly. They think about force fields and behavior functions and stop there. However, I was recently intrigued by a subtle difference between the way some authors referred to his behavior equation and decided the only way to get to the bottom of the mystery was to read his work directly. That’s what led me to A Dynamic Theory of Personality and therein some of Lewin’s writings.

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[Kyrill · Rating 2 out of 5]

A couple of interesting papers, and work that was very influential to Vygotsky, but it also showed me how much more radical Vygotsky was at this time. Lewin's obsession with the differences between "morons" and "idiots" or indeed between boys and girls is just tiresome. There are the seeds of affordance theory here and some alternative formulations of what is important about gestalts but also a lot of work that I can only describe as pseudoscience.

[Sunny]

Dynamic Theory of Personality: Selected Papers of Kurt Lewin by Kurt Lewin (1935)