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THE TERM "PSYCHOLOGY" has tended to have magical connotations. On the one hand it may call up visions of an all-powerful propagandist or public relations expert capable of directing public opinion any way he chooses. On the other hand, however, "psychology" can refer to the insubstantial and immaterial, that which we want to emphasize when we say that some factor or other really plays no objective role, but merely an ephemeral one. Psychology is also apt to evoke the fascination with the abnormal, and even prurient images of a dirty-minded interest in sex. As a result, despite all the interest in psychology within political science over the last half-century the subject remains not only unsettled but highly controversial.
The meaning of the term "politics" is of course at least as multifold