ABSTRACT
The contrast between individual psychology and social or group psychology, which at first glance may seem to be full of significance, loses a great deal of its sharpness when it is examined more closely. It is true that individual psy chology is concerned with the individual man and explores the paths by which he seeks to find satisfaction for his instinctual impulses: but only rarely and under certain exceptional conditions is individual psychology in a position to disregard the relations of this individual to others [italics mine-J.J.Z.]. In the individual's mental life someone else is invariably involved, as a model, as an object, as a helper, as an opponent; and so from the very first individual psy chology, in this extended but entirely justifiable sense of the word, is at the same time social psychology as well (Freud, 1921, p. 69).
