ABSTRACT
Prevalent View. It has been generally held by moralists and psychologists that the man of character is one who has no conflicts, one who has been able to overcome the many struggles of desires for supremacy which mark particularly the Sturm und Drang period in life. The settled man is regarded as having won his victory over the besetting temptations cropping up in youth. The older we grow, the less obstructed is supposed to be our contemplated course. In the recent terminology, integration usually implies or presupposes the absence or minimal survival of conflict. Furthermore, it is frequently taken for granted that the man who gives evidence of conflicts in his behaviour cannot be truly said to possess character ; for character is meant to include decisiveness as one of its ingredients.
