{"id":11705,"date":"2019-02-20T04:56:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T03:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/?p=11705"},"modified":"2026-08-21T15:20:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T14:20:59","slug":"assagioli-and-maslow-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/en\/assagioli-and-maslow-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Assagioli and Maslow Meet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 id=\"h-from-the-search-for-self-in-american-psychology-to-maslow-on-identity-as-its-central-puzzle-two-pioneers-trace-where-uniqueness-reveals-universality\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">From the search for self in American psychology to Maslow on identity as its central puzzle, two pioneers trace where uniqueness reveals universality<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2.-Assagioli-and-Maslow.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2.-Assagioli-and-Maslow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22891\" style=\"width:332px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <strong>Roberto Assagioli<\/strong><br>Notes from a conversation at Brandeis University, May 29, 1958<br>Source: <em>AAP News, November 2007<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Editorial Note<\/strong><br>The abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have been added by the editor, Kenneth S\u00f8rensen, to support readability, navigation, and archival consistency. The original wording has not been altered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Abstract<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this dialogue, notes from a 1958 conversation between Roberto Assagioli and Abraham Maslow at Brandeis University capture Maslow on identity as the central problem of American psychology, citing Erikson&#8217;s influential work. The two thinkers discuss parallels between psychosynthesis and humanistic psychology, including the will, the paradox that uniqueness leads to universality, and the need for empirical research to bring contemplative insights into public acceptance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Maslow expressed his keen appreciation of the validation of ideas [re: the Self and integration] from so many sources all over the world. He said &#8220;there has been a wave of thought over the last decade&#8221; about these subjects. In comparing European and American psychology, Maslow said, that, in his opinion, in Europe there was a more synoptic, holistic way of thought; whereas in the USA there is more &#8220;ortho-psychology&#8221;, more of an empirical approach, and research into particular aspects.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Discussing the Will, Maslow pointed out that Assagioli&#8217;s ideas are paralleled in America under different names. He, Maslow himself, considered &#8216;responsibility&#8217; to equate with the Will. Other writers in Maslow&#8217;s opinion equated &#8220;cultivation&#8221; with Assagioli&#8217;s ideas on the Will.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">There is much use in this country of the Freudian concepts, although many psychologists (Maslow included) are not completely satisfied with them. The great problem, per Maslow, in American psychology is that of the search for identity, for the self. He said that Erikson with his writings on &#8216;Identity&#8217; is having a great influence.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Dr. Maslow stressed that he himself is trying to relate European and American thought.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Reverting to the discussion of the Will, Maslow agreed &#8220;in principle&#8221; that empirical experiments can be made. He mentioned that one thing disturbs him, because &#8220;he had seen it so often&#8221;, ie, the use of such words as &#8216;the fusion of polarities&#8217;, the high and low, the deep and high. Maslow is dissatisfied because he thinks these terms overlook language limitations.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">&#8220;How can the highest be also the deepest?&#8221;. Maslow said that he is now using these terms less and less, ie, spatial terms.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">He also referred to what is to him a problem, the relationship of the unique individual to universality. He said that the more you &#8220;dig&#8221; into him [into the unique individual] for his &#8220;peaks&#8221; \u2014 the deeper you dig operationally into the individuals \u2014 the more alike they become. He is puzzled by the paradox of &#8220;uniqueness leads to universality&#8221;. He asked, &#8220;what to do with these paradoxes?&#8221;.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">(Assagioli answered: \u201cThe intuitives will understand; the rest, never!\u201d)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Maslow hopes to demonstrate what the intuitives know. Assagioli pointed out that, first of all, research will be on the Will, then on genius and the higher consciousness. Maslow referred to the <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><em><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Institute of Personality Development<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"> in California but explained that they are doing strictly empirical research.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Dr. Maslow stressed that if we do not move in the direction of &#8220;public research&#8221; then these ideas (such as he and Assagioli have been talking about) would remain with the few \u2014 and not be accepted.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Maslow referred to the &#8220;biological hierarchy of values&#8221; and of them being paralleled psychologically. He went on to mention that this leads to another paradox: in the mystic experience, in the &#8220;great moment&#8221;, there is perceived the essential nature of the world in an objective manner. Therefore, bridges need to be made in which the viewer and the viewed become one. In this connection he used several times the phrase &#8220;the leap needs to be made into another kind of values&#8221; in which we are selfless, not needing, nor needed. Here he seemed to be touching closely Dr. Rugg&#8217;s (of Columbia) thought.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">[The original archive referred to the participants as \u201cM\u201d and \u201cRA\u201d which have been here spelled out as \u201cMaslow\u201d and \u201cAssagioli.\u201d \u2014 editor] <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br><br><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">The AAP recently received a copy of the above notes taken by an unknown person who attended the conversation on May 29, 1958 between Roberto Assagioli, MD, and Abraham Maslow, Ph.D., at Brandeis University. AAP received these notes on Sept. 26, 2007, from John Cobb, President of School of Esoteric Studies in Asheville, NC In August of 2006, SES transferred to AAP several boxes of archives from the Psychosynthesis Research Foundation (1957-1976), which was the first organized effort to promote psychosynthesis in North America. AAP celebrated the 50th anniversary of the formation of the PRF at the annual AAP conference in July. Among the archives was a letter dated July 25, 1963, to Frank Hilton, Administrator of the PRF, from Abraham Maslow. In the letter, Maslow supported the publication of the Psychosynthesis Manual after receiving and reviewing a &#8220;working draft of techniques.&#8221; Maslow states in the letter, &#8220;My strong feeling was that this manual is very important to many people and should be published as a book as soon as possible. I would recommend not waiting too long to perfect it but rather revising and printing the editions after the first one had appeared. \u2014 Cordially, Abraham H. 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