Wechsler reflects about the interaction among individual and society and asks to which extent society permits an individual to exploit one’s full potential. He responds that the more sophisticated a person is the more he or she must keep a distance to others. Socializing with others holds the chance for an individual to develop one’s own personality and thereby achieve self-fulfilment. Therefore he recommends us to gather with people from different socials classes, which enables us to develop a reasonable distance. It is this space or sense of distance that characterises a cultivated character.33 It appears, that individualisation is a two-edged sword as individual preferences and personal peculiarities tend to collide with the collective norms of society. Therefore distance is the only way to avoid other people’s interfering in one’s private life.

🔷 Forms of Life as Social Techniques

🔷 Margit GAFFAL

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