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Doctrine of Lesya and Psychological Types
Dr. T. G. Kalghatgi
1. It is difficult to define personality as it expresses the psychophysical complexities. Allport defines personality as 'the dynamic organisation within the individual of those psychophysical systems which determine his unique adjustment to his environment'. *1. Our personality formation is very much determined by various factors, like, heredity, environment, psychophysical traits and a host of other forces working constantly on man's environment. And therefore, we find there are personality differences in individual men. Men are not equal, although they have justifiable needs for social and political equality of opportunity. As Radhakrishnan said 'we cannot put our souls in uniform'. 'And democrecy is not the standardising of every one so as to obliterate all peculiarity. "*2 We have, therefore, personality types in society.
2. Several attempts have been made to explain personality, from the psychological and philosophical points of view by classifying individuals into different types. Hyppocritus and Galen used the criterion of temperament as the basis of personality. Men with sanguine temperament are quick and unstable, those with chloric temperament are easily aroused. Similarly he added the distinction of malancholic and phlegmatic temperaments. Plato distinguished men into three types: those who desire wealth (appetite), those who desire honour and those who seek philosophic truth.
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