Abraham Maslow

self-actualization is meaningless without reference to a currently active future; life can be a gestalt in time, etc., etc.

now call psychology is the study of the tricks we use to avoid the anxiety of absolute novelty by making believe the future will be like the past.

Part II:
Growth and Motivation

Deficiency Motivation and Growth Motivation

Brain-injured soldiers. Goldstein’s work (55) is well known to all. He found it necessary to invent the concept of self-actualization to explain the reorganization of the person’s capacities after injury.

intrinsic qualities of the perceived person.

EGO-CENTERING AND EGO-TRANSCENDENCE

The more growth-motivated the person is the more problem-centered can he be, and the more he can leave self-consciousness behind him as he deals with the objective world.