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I bisogni, positivi e negativi
The needs, positive and negative

Author(s): Waldemar Woźniak
Subject(s): Individual Psychology, Personality Psychology, Psychology of Self
Published by: Wyższe Seminarium Duchowne w Łodzi
Keywords: Needs; human personality; knowledge;

Summary/Abstract: Needs are the basic elements of the human personality structure. This article presents needs as natural tendencies, coming from some deficit of the organism or dynamism in a human being. They can be situated on the spiritual, psychosocial and rational levels. The needs can be positive or negative. The specific need may also be negative in one situation, and positive in another. The article also presents slightly wider selected by me negative and positive needs and a list of basic psychological needs. There is often a contradiction between the content of particular needs. This is happening between the essential needs discussed by Freud - the instinct of life and death. You can not form a personality without a good knowledge of your own needs.

  • Issue Year: 12/2003
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 149-151
  • Page Count: 3
  • Language: Italian