ABSTRACT
The ultimate aim of behavior in The Psychology of Personal Constructs is the development and consolidation of the construction system. The Psychology of Personal Constructs certainly has an apparent emphasis on psychological processes at a high level of cognitive awareness, and George Kelly makes no special provision for a construct of the unconscious. The Psychology of Personal Constructs is a theory that has within its intended range of convenience an exceptional variety of behavior of which the human organism is capable, including learning, dreams, occupational choice, and sexual activity. Kelly thought he saw in the people around him, with whom he was working and associating, the same goals and desires as those of the scientist, namely, to be able to anticipate and ultimately to control their environments. Kelly is by no means a pure nominalist, but he inclines quite definitely in that direction, and in some ways may be more extreme than many self-designated nominalists in his conception of reality.
