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The psychoanalyst sets out to define the human condition within the boundaries of a holistic theory. When for heuristic reasons, he narrows his field of inquiry, he must be mindful to do so within the context of a psychology that encompasses and seeks to comprehend the totality of human experience. Hartmann (1950), for instance, in his ego psychology attempts to make of psychoanalysis a general science of man. He emphasizes that “psychoanalysis includes within its scope of interest the structure of reality … [especially] the structure of society” (pp. 92-93). Similarly, George H. Mead (1934), the behavioral social psychologist states that to comprehend individual behavior fully it must be observed within the social situation in which it occurs.