ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses some of the implications of the broader but basic topic of the relation of the individual to the society and culture in which he lives. From the democratic point of view the aim of personality training is the maximum individuality or uniqueness within the framework of necessitous group obligations. In the light of our present-day personal and societal distress, anxiety, uncertainty, and insecurity, people hear much of planning, of prearrangement of the society and culture, aimed at providing individual satisfactions and a stable social-cultural order. The basic theory of totalitarianism is that the state is coterminous with the society of individuals and groups within a given national boundary. In a state-society all activities are fixed in advance, all values are predetermined for the individual. In fact, the society is larger than and ultimately dominant over the state as a functioning source of political power.
