Carolina QuotesA goal can play an essential role in the psychological situation without being clearly present in consciousness.
Kurt Zadek Lewin Connected to the Carolinas
Source
p. 19.
- work
- Principles of topological psychology, 1936
- year
- 1936
- locator
- p. 19
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