Abstract
The present article tries, through analysing the structure of Kilpatrick's theory of learning, to clarify how the character or personality as we speach of character-building or personality-building and the field of building can be recognized. Especially his theory of attitude-building (“attitude” forms the nucleus of the personality structure which is defined as character structure and as individual character trait, and is the field capable of being built) in the field of concomitant learning had induced the present writer to develop the following reasoning.
The situation of character-building is the field of active ego-alter relation and falls beyond the direct range of the subject's consciousness. In other words the person concerned is incapable of being conscious of the process of his own character-building but can understand it only reflectively afterwards. The peculiarity of the field of character-building lies in the fact that the person concerned remains unconscious during the process. The concept “unconsciousness” will be the key to the problem of character-building. At the same time the essential nature of the field of character-building could be said to consist in its unconscious building power.
