ABSTRACT

This chapter explores the question: "Does it take all kinds to make a world?" This question is a problem which is not only of importance in the immediate present, but is, one of the major problems that humanity will always have to deal with. The diversity of our types affords us an outlet for aggression without evoking the paralysing effect of too much guilt. In the hero-worshipping group there was a common ideal, but there could also be diversity of occupation, that is, a uniformity of ego-ideal but not of ego. Hero-worship is a fixation of interest to one aspect of the idealised parent figure. The group-regarding sentiments are split into two; the community in which the individual lives is considered as wholly good and all other groups are bad. In a community where everyone cannot be known, latent suspicion is easily roused.