ABSTRACT
The problem of the origin, nature and development of the self is a perennial one which has been investigated and considered in a variety of universes of discourse. The fullest possible development of the individual self depends upon the ability to get the broadest activities of any given organized society within the experimental field of the individuals included in that whole. When the organization of the self is fully launched it will then proceed under its own organizing and integrative principles. In the normal person this process of self-integration has due regard for the needs, the demands, the rules and the laws of society - but all selves are different, and in consequence the rules will be interpreted differently within the same society. The individual becomes self-conscious so he becomes self-critical and, through self-criticism, social control over individual behaviour operates by virtue of the social origin and basis of such criticism.
