ABSTRACT
BOUVARD and Pécuhêet, in the great novel by Flaubert, resolved to take up psychology. The goal of psychology, they read, is to study the facts which take place " in the bosom of the self "; these are discovered by introspection. " And for a fortnight, after breakfast regularly, they hunted about at random in their minds, hoping to make notable discoveries, and made none and were much surprised."
