[240] Now I want to go to a question the significance of which is very great and which in SOME way is a transition from this semester to the next one. That is the reason why l intended originally to discuss it in the next semester, but since the spatial and technical conditions in this room make the showing of slides very difficult---after inquiry---we decided last Thursday to postpone the problem of religion and the arts to the beginning of next semester. That leaves us now with the question of the doctrine of man,^a or of the self-interpretation of man. I wouldn't call it "religion and psychology," because psychology has already been discussed implicitly in the relationship of religion and science---there we discussed not only physics but also biology and psychology, to a certain extent. The problem of these three remaining lectures is different from this. It is man as man, and the self-interpretation of man as man. Now that is a kind of summary of ALL other problems. To show this is my first task, I call the lecture today: "Man's search for himself and self-loss in his world." I want to do this in a dramatic form, and l believe that in order to UNDERSTAND history, and historical developments, one must have a vision of the developments which has a dramatic ^bcharacter. In a more abstract concept this has been called "dialectical character ^cof history." But "dramatic" and "dialectic"^d, if applied to history, mean exactly the same thing. When Marx^e, for instance, applied the dialectical method ^fto the development of industrial society, he actually gave a DRAMATIC interpretation of industrial society, its inner conflicts---which is a dramatic