Correlações II

(ca. 1894) Paul Gauguin

...Eu passei pela miséria extrema, isto é tive fome, tive frio e sofri tudo o que daí resulta. Mas tudo isso é um nada, um quase nada a que nos habituamos, e com determinação acabamos por nos rir disso. Mas o que na miséria é terrível, é que ela estorva o trabalho e o desenvolvimento das faculdades intelectuais.


(1943) Abraham Maslow

(1) There are at least five sets of goals, which we may call basic needs. These are briefly physiological, safety, love, 'esteem, and self-actualization. In addition, we are motivated by the desire to achieve or maintain the various conditions upon which these basic satisfactions rest and by certain more intellectual desires.

(2) These basic goals are related to each other, being arranged in a hierarchy of prepotency. This means that the most prepotent goal will monopolize consciousness and will tend of itself to organize the recruitment of the various capacities of the organism. The less prepotent needs are minimized, even forgotten or denied. But when a need is fairly well satisfied, the next prepotent ('higher') need emerges, in turn to dominate the counscious life and to serve as the center of organization of behaviour, since gratified needs are not active motivators.