ABSTRACT

Emerson began one of his essays with the story of how "Man;' once whole, was divided by the gods into "men;' and separated from one another in a division of labor. As Emerson noted:

This fable relates to fields like psychology that are dedicated to studying human behavior because such fields all too often chop behavior into pieces in a way that makes it is difficult to recompose a whole from the fragments. As Gordon Allport wrote, "psychological science partakes of the same general dismemberment" as the rest of modern culture (Allport, 1968a, p. 103).