ABSTRACT
The theories of motivation developed in the twentieth century are opposite. A theory that harmoniously integrates the contributions based on the facts is needed. The learning of needs is highlighted, based on organic and acquired determinants, through the affective reinforcement of the objects of the external world and the words in which they are channeled. The organic requirements are specified in the objects and words. The higher needs come from the assimilation of the language and they are independent determinants of the organic requirements and between them and the assumed duties usually predominate in the conflicts with the psychic development. The subject in his initially reactive and adaptive behavior develops creative projects aimed at the future that lead to self-realization. Thus, there is the reciprocal unity and determination of adaptation and self-realization, as an explanation of human behavior. In the contradictions of life, two dynamisms are imposed: the specific motivation, aimed at obtaining the goal of necessity, and the non-specific motivation for the frustration and conflict, aimed at reducing the unsatisfactory tension in other ways. Both dynamics are in unity, but the specific one is typical of the normal motivation in which the projects and goals predominated, in a relatively harmonic and integrating way, while the nonspecific one is predominant in the abnormal motivation, in which the determinants and external unconscious assume a leading role. Only the fullest truth will be the most useful for the human being.
Keywords:
Epistemology; theory; motivation.