Human motivation and Freud's theory of energy discharge.
- 1 September 1956
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Canadian Journal of Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologie
- Vol. 10 (3) , 167-178
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0083667
Abstract
The freudian view of motivation as energy discharge to rid the organism of stimulation and to maintain the equilibrium in a closed physical system may be adequate to explain elementary forms of need-reduction, but it cannot adequately account for the constructive, task-oriented aspects of human behaviors. The result of the physical inspiration of Freud''s theories is an impoverished concept of the ego.Keywords
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