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habitable by our type of creatures. What they have to be might well prove entirely conjectural.
The psychological development of man has been such that men have reminded themselves of great advances in their capacities to think, feel and perceive more than what has been possible so far. Man is no longer content to be limited to this body, nor are the perceptions adequate to his present dimensions of knowledge. If man can develop more potentialities, or exceed the present ones, then his aspiration has some justification.
The ordinary aim of psychology has been an attempt to know the nature of the behaviour of the human being by means of observation of what he does. The areas of feeling and subjective processes of thinking and believing, and even the affective conditions are almost inferred from his behaviour; or these reports are subjected to gruelling doubts. The vast field of the subjective is entirely to be obtained by report, and is expected to be as objective as possible. Either this procedure takes too much for granted about the capacity of each individual to report adequately on the degree and content of his feelings, or grants too little to such capacity. The lot of psychology in the laboratories is in pretty bad predicament regarding the subjective. As for the objective data, so-called, they are, despite the fanfare and trumpeting or exhibitionism of measuring instruments, about as little informative as possible about the human individual. The main difficulty is that there can hardly be a calculus or measuring instrument, or even a recording instrument of our feelings and thoughts. The most that could be done is to record, by phonograph, the sounds produced in satisfaction, sorrow, despair, disgrace, exaltation, etc.
The psycho-analytical method of trying to establish rapport between the analyst and the subject lends itself to a kind of transcendence of the subjective by means of the sympathy of the former for the latter. Sympathy breaks the subjective, and, in love, where that is a true concern for another, there is the phenomenon of transcendence. It may be that there is a danger of transference of the emotion from one to another, or one to oneself, but when it is not under pathological circumstances, the transference does not entail a deformation of the subjective. That is the reason why true intuition is a kind of objective, or truth-seeking, love-or call it even love of the