This is the reason why there are people we can easily blend with,  like margarine on hot knife, while there are those who seem abominable or hateful to us–those we can’t seem to swallow. This psychological field or territory forms a demarcation   that we have established consciously or unconsciously to divide people into groups in our effort to relate with humans. 

In my relations with people, there are individuals I allow to invade my well-guarded territory. These are what I classify as “persons” or my “in group” — the people I belong to, with whom I have established a bond of togetherness, the people I trust, my “special people” whom I can easily talk with. Then there’s the other group with whom I just talk to (not with) as if they were just objects, not persons or people.

This is what I understand to be what my psychological field or life space consists of: my ideas of people and things around me, values, dreams, aspirations, attitudes, illusions, expectations, delusions, frustrations, and so forth. I conceive of this field or space to consist of many layers of experiences and impressions. What a wide, wide world it is, and how terrible it is, too, because it is a seething cauldron of many forces and elements blending, contrasting, counteracting, and so on — and desires fulfilled and unfulfilled! Sometimes I am terrified to think of the varied potentials that I have— my potentials to be destructive, that is, to do evil. To soften the thought I think of myself as being basically good— which I am, really.

Every person is unique. Does this mean that your psychological world or life space is different from mine? Can I blend my world with yours so this world would be a happier place to live in? ###