"After this first approximation, the various aspects of the situation undergo a more and more detailed analysis. In contrast to this the second method [for analysis of life space] begins with the life space as a whole and defines its fundamental structure. The procedure in this case is not to add disconnected items but to make the original structure more specific and differentiated. This method therefore proceeds by steps from the more general to the particular and thereby avoids the danger of a "wrong simplification" by abstraction."
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p. 4; partly cited in: Chris Argyris (1952) An introduction to field theory and interaction theory.
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Kurt Lewin
1890 – 1947
deutsch-amerikanischer Psychologe
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