ABSTRACT
In the chapter just finished the discussion was organized about the process of child development using the chronological sequence of phases as the main frame of reference. The treatment of this familiar sequence in our special theoretical terms, particularly the continual emphasis on the social structure of the socializing agencies, and the internalization of their role-units as objects, has raised a whole series of more general theoretical problems. These concern the organization of the personality as a system and the nature of its “fit” with the systems of social interaction in which it is enmeshed. These problems involve a sufficient change in the level of discourse, and in extensity of ramifications, to justify a separate chapter for their consideration. 1
