Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Part 1: Background Essays -- 1. Language of Psychology / 2. Memory and Context: Toward a Theory of Context in Ethnoscicnce / 3. Language and the Production and Interpretation of Social Interactions / Part 2: Toward a Systematic View -- Chapter 1. An Introspective Interlude on Ideals -- Chapter 2. Two Epistemological Viewpoints: What Are Personality and Society? -- Chapter 3. Defense and Knowing: The Foundations in Language and Logic -- Chapter 4. Defense and Knowing: The Psychological Forms of Logic and Language -- Chapter 5. Binary Logic: The Science of the Person and the Drama of Ideals -- Chapter 6. Toward a Theory of Personality: The Language of Negation and Defense -- Chapter 7. Toward a Theory of Personality: From Simple Patterns to Complex Drama -- Part 3: Α Global Perspective -- 1. Origins of Human Personality and Social Systems / Name Index -- Subject Index