Introducing the Intrapsychic Motivations

David Forbes

Chapter Chapter 3 in The Science of Why, 2015, pp 35-51 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract There is no more crucial relationship for us humans to develop than the one we have with ourselves. That’s why intrapsychic motives are a gateway to other areas of our study. The ability to distinguish ourselves from the world around us is an early, critical developmental task that helps us establish our place in the world, discover and form our relationship to it and the people in it, and finally, build a positive, lifelong relationship with ourselves. Cause and effect, action and reaction, inside and outside—all of our most basic ideas about how the world works rest first on our ability to recognize what is “I” and “me” and what is not. Only after this distinction is made are we free to enter into a lifelong pursuit of protecting, understanding, evolving, expressing, and improving our vision of ourselves. All of the strivings in regard to the critical sense of self belong to the first column of the Forbes Matrix, the intrapsychic motives.

Keywords: Heart Attack; Brand Relationship; Critical Sense; Motorcycle Ride; Motivate Consumer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-50204-9_4

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9781137502049

DOI: 10.1057/9781137502049_4

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().