IJSP Number 3, 2021

44 extract herself/himself from that imbroglio that has contaminated everything around us. What actually is to be accomplished, if one wishes to change, that one should swim against the current; but that seems to be impossible considering the omnipresence of a system that cannot allow a moment of pause, relaxation, or introspection. It is the existential question and the questioning of existence that our postmodern society in cahoots with the capitalist consumerism and its globalization cannot allow or afford. That is why it is so hard to have a pause for moments of introspection, and self-analyzing, or self-evaluation. The globalised system is always around the corner, waiting to tempt, or tempting already, with all its well-packaged allurements, and colourful offers, and temptations for the newest or latest consumer goods. The consumerist society continuously extends the already existing temptations – shrouded in attractive offers – to include and absorb larger and larger groups of people, day by day, week by week. Present day consumption is no longer the prerogative of a few grownups with money, and privileged by fortune, but it has proliferated throughout the entire population of the planet. Nowadays, everything lies in statistics; and statistics are always about large numbers. It does not matter that behind those numbers are people or goods, cars or the stock market, everything finds itself labelled in the rising or falling of some percentages. One of the consequences of the statistical processing in psychology is that the need to acknowledge the human being as a human being, with her/his particular problems and existential questions has lost its meaning; there is no more sense in doing such a thing. By inserting human behavioural manifestations in statistics, we are doing some sort of social psychology, and not psychology as such. All the results of statistics are merely numbers, pies, or histograms; we can have some particularly good image and idea about attitudes or behaviours, but they are, ultimately, social in character. By those mathematical methods, we do not study a psychology of the individual, but that of masses of individuals, namely of a collective body in which the individual as such disappears to emerge as some number that indicates a general tendency. In such a way and by those mathematical methods, psychology as taught in universities has since long lost the individual and her/his process of growth or individualization. Where are, after all, the human beings, or their personalities, to be found in a statistic that does not manage and is not concerned with psychological problems, but with the risings and fallings of numbers in charts drawn in a two-dimensional scheme? Statistics studies solely the general tendencies; everything that is particular or personal is left outside because it cannot be operated with. Everything that is personal, special, or representing some particularity, as well as any exception, finds itself automatically eliminated from any serious statistic. Therefore, by applying mathematics to psychology – because we want to give it a more scientific touch – we will have as a result an interesting social psychology concerned only with multitudes and totalities, where any personal or particular