PSYCH 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Starving Artist
13 Feb 2017
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Commonly if its strong enough you become an artist later on in life. Willing to be hungry so they can be pleased aesthetically. Satisfaction of constant lack: higher drives never appear. Where basic needs have never been met, i. e. safe drinking water, a full stomach, or safety from bombs/violence. Self-actualization is not a lack or deficiencyit is not something extrinsic that the organism needs for health, as, for example, a tree needs water. Self-actualization is intrinsic growth of what is already in the organism, or more accurately, of what is the organism itself. Development then proceeds from within rather than without, and paradoxically the highest motive is to be unmotivated and non-striving, that is to behave. Or, to say it in another way, self-actualization is growth-motivated rather tha(cid:374) deficie(cid:374)cy (cid:373)oti(cid:448)ated. It is a "seco(cid:374)d (cid:374)ai(cid:448)ete", a (cid:449)ise i(cid:374)(cid:374)oce(cid:374)ce . Getting beyond the category of everything being black and white. Most of the stuff that fills our lives is not important.
