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ISOLATION: CENTER AND PERIPHERY
Author(s) -
Tiller Per Olav
Publication year - 1963
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1963.tb01312.x
Subject(s) - theme (computing) , psychology , center (category theory) , norwegian , isolation (microbiology) , perception , anxiety , orientation (vector space) , social psychology , feature (linguistics) , projective test , centripetal force , developmental psychology , psychoanalysis , psychiatry , geometry , linguistics , chemistry , philosophy , mathematics , physics , neuroscience , computer science , mechanics , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , crystallography , operating system
Preliminary data from an investigation of children growing up in geographically isolated Norwegian farm families indicate a strong preoccupation with the theme of center vs. periphery, or inside vs. outside, in projective fantasies. What lies outside the circle of home and family seems to provoke anxiety, and return to the farm is a frequent theme. This ‘centripetal’ tendency may be a basic feature of the perceptual organization as well as general life orientation of such children.