Abraham Maslow. Motivation and personality. St. Petersburg, Peter, 2006, 352 p. - series "Masters of Psychology":
1. “As you move along the phylogenetic scale and as the role of instincts decreases, the dependence of the individual on culture as an adaptation tool becomes more and more” (p. 54).
2. “A satisfied desire ceases to be a desire. The body is dominated by unsatisfied needs, which determine behavior” (p. 63).
3. "the prerequisites for satisfying basic needs are freedoms; a threat to freedoms is a threat to the needs themselves (p. 69).
4. "any behavior is polydetermined, that is, it has a complex motivation" (p. 76).
5. "As for the motivational determinants themselves, any behavior is determined by several or all of the basic needs rather than just one of them" (p. 76)
6. "The satisfaction of any need, on the one hand, eliminates it, and on the other hand, it allows other, weaker needs, which have so far been in a suppressed state, to come to the fore and declare themselves. The flow of needs is continuous. Satisfaction of one of them leads to the appearance of a new one (p. 102).
7. “Love identification can be defined as the merging of individual needs hierarchies… Two truly loving people will respond to each other's needs as if they were their own. The needs of one's neighbor become one's own need (p. 110).
8. “the highest motive is to have no motives” (p. 121).
9." Self-actualization is motivated by development needs rather than lack of something. This is the second naivete, an easy state (p. 121).
10. "coping - behavior ... is an attempt to compensate for an internal deficit with the help of external positive stimuli" (p. 121)
11. “what is the norm, that is, what is desirable” (p. 172)
12. "Obviously, having found out what constitutes an 'average', one must ask whether this average is desirable?" (p. 172).
13. "Adaptation means passive acceptance of the appearance that is prescribed by culture and environment" (p. 173).
14. “Love deprivation leads to illness” (p. 180).
15. “Average, so-called normal and well-adapted people often have no idea who they are, what they want and what they think” (p. 194).
16. “love belongs to the highest needs, therefore it pushes the satisfaction of lower needs into the background, the satisfaction of the highest need brings stronger pleasure” (p. 215).
17. “democratic respect for the right of people to make their own, even if erroneous, decisions” (p. 245).
18. "the goal of psychoanalysis as psychotherapy is to integrate the personality" (p. 228).
19. “to the extent that creativity is constructive, unifying and integrating, it depends on the internal integration of a person” (p. 225).
20. "love - as an attitude towards another person as an end, and not as a means to achieve an end" (p. 219).
21. "love as self-reward (p. 217)".
22. "one of the important aspects of a healthy love relationship is the so-called identification of needs, or the creation of a single hierarchy of basic needs of both partners.
As a result, each feels the needs of the partner as their own, while simultaneously perceiving their own needs as partly belonging to another person. The "I" of each of the partners already extends to two people who, in a psychological sense, become a single whole, a single personality, one "I" (p. 216).
The existentialist emphasis on the total isolation of the individual is a useful reminder to those of us who are working on future concepts of decision making, responsibility, choice, growth, self-reliance, and identity. - Abraham Maslow
The future of man lies in himself; it lives in him at this very moment. - Abraham Maslow
For me, existentialism means essentially the emphasis on the notion of identity, originality, and experiencing oneself as oneself as a sine qua non (sine qua non) of human nature and of any philosophy and science of human nature. - Abraham Maslow
For many people, the only definition they can think of of a meaningful life is “not having something important and striving to get it.” But we know that self-actualizing people, even if all their basic needs have already been met, find life filled with even deeper meaning, because they can live, so to speak, in the realm of Being. - Abraham Maslow
For psychologists, it is extremely important that existentialists can combine psychology with philosophical foundations, which others have not yet been able to do. Logical positivism has been a mistake, especially for clinical and personality psychologists. - Abraham Maslow
European phenomenologists, with their painstakingly neat, time-consuming demonstrations, can teach us that the best way to understand another person's being, or at least the way to make some assumptions, is to get into his Weltanschauung (world view) and become able to see his world through his eyes. - Abraham Maslow
If you are deliberately going to become a less significant person than your abilities allow you, I warn you that you will be deeply unhappy all your life. - Abraham Maslow
Life is a process of constant choice. At every moment a person has a choice: either retreat or advance towards the goal. Either a movement towards even greater fear, fears, protection, or the choice of a goal and the growth of spiritual forces. To choose development instead of fear ten times a day means to advance ten times towards self-realization. - Abraham Maslow
From European writers we can and should borrow a serious emphasis on what they call "philosophical anthropology", which is an attempt to define man, to distinguish between man and other biological species, between man and other objects, between man and machine. - Abraham Maslow
It is very easy to destroy or suppress the potential of a person so that a full-fledged person seems to us something like a miracle, such an implausible case that plunges us into awe. But at the same time, it is encouraging that self-actualizing people nevertheless exist, and therefore, it is possible to cope with all the trials and emerge victorious. - Abraham Maslow
After a period of happiness, joyful excitement and a sense of the fullness of life, the achievement will inevitably come for granted and there will be anxiety, dissatisfaction and a desire for more! - Abraham Maslow
Self-actualization is not only the end station of our journey, but the journey itself and its driving force. This is a minute-by-minute actualization of all our sensed and even only pre-perceived possibilities. - Abraham Maslow
Self-actualization is a process, it assumes that every time we make a choice, we choose that it is more worthy to remain honest, and not to lie, that it is more honest not to steal than to steal, or, in general, we make each of the choices that confront us in favor of personal growth. - Abraham Maslow
Self-affirmation, power occupy the highest hierarchical level of the pyramid of priorities of human needs. - Abraham Maslow
What we call "normal" in psychology is actually a psychopathology of the ordinary, so undramatic and so widespread that we usually don't even notice it. The existential study of authentic personality and authentic being helps throw fakes, life illusions and fears into the fire, which helps to see them as a disease, even if it is widespread. - Abraham Maslow
What I observed in the satisfaction of needs led only to temporary happiness, which in turn was replaced by a new and (as one might foresee) deeper dissatisfaction. It seems that man's hope for eternal happiness is unrealizable. Of course, happiness comes, it is achievable and real. But it seems that we will have to come to terms with its inherent transience, especially if we are attracted by its most profound manifestations. Peak experiences are short-lived, they cannot be long-lasting. Deep happiness is transitory, it is not permanent. - Abraham Maslow
He who has only a hammer as a tool tends to look at any problem as a nail. - Abraham Maslow
A person whose only tool is a hammer sees only nails in everything. - Abraham Maslow
Existentialists help us see the limits of verbal, analytical, conceptual rationality. They are adjacent to the direction that exists today in psychology, calling for a return to the primary experiences that precede any conceptualization or abstraction. - Abraham Maslow
I don't think we need to take the European existentialists too seriously, talking about fear, suffering, sickness and the like, for which they think endurance is the only remedy. This highly intellectual whimpering on lofty topics proves to be a perpetual source of failure at work. - Abraham Maslow
I found that... the concept of self-actualization turned out to be very similar to Rorschach's inkblots. Most often, the use of this concept told me more about the person who uses it than about the very reality behind this concept. - Abraham Maslow
Self-actualization is not only the end station of our journey, but the journey itself and its driving force. This is a minute-by-minute actualization of all our perceptible and even only pre-perceived possibilities.
Self-actualization is a process, it assumes that every time we make a choice, we choose that it is more worthy to remain honest, and not to lie, that it is more honest not to steal than to steal, or, in general, that we make each of the choices that confront us in favor of personal growth
I found that… the concept of self-actualization turned out to be very similar to Rorschach inkblots. Most often, the use of this concept told me more about the person who uses it than about the very reality behind this concept.
This discovery means that for many people, the only definition of a life of meaning that they can imagine is "not having something important and striving to acquire it." But we know that self-actualizing people, even if all their basic needs have already been met, find life filled with even deeper meaning, since they can live, so to speak, in the realm of Being.
... what I observed in the satisfaction of needs led only to temporary happiness, which in turn was replaced by a new and (as one could foresee) deeper dissatisfaction. It seems that man's hope for eternal happiness is unrealizable. Of course, happiness comes, it is achievable and real. But it seems that we will have to come to terms with its inherent transience, especially if we are attracted by its most profound manifestations. Peak experiences are short-lived, they cannot be long-lasting. Deep happiness is transitory, it is not permanent.
After a period of happiness, joyful excitement and a sense of the fullness of life, the achievement will inevitably come for granted and there will be anxiety, dissatisfaction and a desire for more!
... it is very easy to destroy or suppress the potential of a person so that a full-fledged person seems to us something like a miracle, such an implausible case that plunges one into awe. But at the same time, it is encouraging that self-actualizing people nevertheless exist, and therefore, it is possible to cope with all the trials and emerge victorious.
If you are determined to become a lesser person than your ability allows, I warn you that you will be a deeply unhappy person.
For me, existentialism means essentially the emphasis on the notion of identity, originality, and experiencing oneself as oneself as a sine qua non (sine qua non) of human nature and of any philosophy and science of human nature.
For psychologists, it is extremely important that existentialists can combine psychology with philosophical foundations, which others have not yet been able to do. Logical positivism has been a mistake, especially for clinical and personality psychologists.
From European authors we can and should borrow a serious emphasis on what they call "philosophical anthropology", which is an attempt to define man, to distinguish between man and other biological species, between man and other objects, between man and machine.
European phenomenologists, with their painstakingly neat, time-consuming demonstrations, can teach us that the best way to understand another person's being, or at least the way to make some assumptions, is to get into his Weltanschauung (world view) and become able to see his world through his eyes
what we call "normal" in psychology is actually a psychopathology of the ordinary, so undramatic and so widespread that we usually don't even notice it. The existential study of authentic personality and authentic being helps throw fakes, life illusions and fears into the fire, which helps to see them as a disease, albeit a widespread one.
The existentialist emphasis on the total isolation of the individual is a useful reminder to those of us who are working on future concepts of decision making, responsibility, choice, growth, self-reliance, and identity.
Existentialists help us see the limits of verbal, analytical, conceptual rationality. They are adjacent to the direction that exists today in psychology, calling for a return to primary experiences that precede any conceptualization or abstraction.
I don't think we need to take the European existentialists too seriously, talking about fear, suffering, sickness and the like, for which they think endurance is the only remedy. This highly intellectual whimpering on lofty topics proves to be a perpetual source of failure at work.
Life is a process of constant choice. At every moment a person has a choice: either retreat or advance towards the goal. Either a movement towards even greater fear, fears, protection, or the choice of a goal and the growth of spiritual forces. Choosing development instead of fear ten times a day means moving towards self-realization ten times
A popular American psychologist, the founder of humanistic psychology. The so-called "Maslow's Pyramid", sometimes attributed to Maslow, is widely known - a diagram that hierarchically represents human needs. Maslow's quotes can be classified as philosophical and speculative.
● Life is a process of constant choice. At every moment a person has a choice: either retreat or advance towards the goal. Either a movement towards even greater fear, fears, protection, or the choice of a goal and the growth of spiritual forces.
● If you are going to become a less significant person than your abilities allow, I warn you that you will be a deeply unhappy person.
● To be in harmony with oneself, a person must be what he can be.
● Love belongs to the highest needs, so it pushes the satisfaction of the lowest needs into the background, the satisfaction of the highest need brings more intense pleasure.
● Children don't need to be taught to be curious. But by accustoming them to the existing order of things, you can teach them not to be curious.
● To avoid disappointment in people, one must get rid of illusions. Know how to accept people for who they are. Perfect people do not exist. You can find good people, but even they are sometimes selfish, irritable and gloomy.
● Satisfied desire ceases to be desire. The organism is dominated by unsatisfied needs, which determine behavior.
● The best way to understand another human being - at least in some cases a useful way - is to penetrate into his worldview and the ability to see his world through his own eyes.
● Of course, at the level of ideal communion (which I call the realm of Being), such concepts as freedom, independence, insight, trust, will, dependence, reality, another person, alienation, absolution, etc., have a very complex and rich the content they lack in everyday life, tormented by deficits, desires, needs, the desire for self-preservation, dichotomy and polar opposites.
● I found that… the concept of self-actualization turned out to be very similar to Rorschach's inkblots. Most often, the use of this concept told me more about the person who uses it than about the very reality behind this concept.
● After a period of happiness, joyful excitement and a sense of fullness of life, the achievement will inevitably come for granted and there will be anxiety, dissatisfaction and a desire for more.
● All life is learning, and everyone in it is a teacher and an eternal student.
