The International Journal of Ecopsychology (IJE)
Abstract
Kurt Goldstein imagined that at every stage of their development, organisms are, to characterize, wrestling with the imminent and inescapable realities (bio-socio-psychological) of energy (e.g., food and sleep), safety (e.g., hygiene; home and a family), and possibility (e.g., learning; opportunities and luck), and importantly, simultaneously. To oversimplify, Maslow would like us to eat before loving or praying, whereas Goldstein intuits that human motivations are dynamically complex and multifactorial -- in others words, integrally transactional and ongoing. It is Goldstein’s more complex idea that this essay supports.
Recommended Citation
Conesa, George
(2022)
"Foundations: Eating. Loving. Praying.,"
The International Journal of Ecopsychology (IJE): Vol. 4:
Iss.
1, Article 6.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/ije/vol4/iss1/6
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