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... activity arises , it reaches a point where it is self - maintaining and may then be continued for its own sake independently of the original instinctive energies which started it . This is the doctrine of functional autonomy . The ...
... activity arises , it reaches a point where it is self - maintaining and may then be continued for its own sake independently of the original instinctive energies which started it . This is the doctrine of functional autonomy . The ...
Page 70
... activity is something that is fun to do anyhow , some- thing that expresses the self and is thus worth making a competi- tive game out of . Canalization exemplifies that vast world of delight in sensory gratification which is ...
... activity is something that is fun to do anyhow , some- thing that expresses the self and is thus worth making a competi- tive game out of . Canalization exemplifies that vast world of delight in sensory gratification which is ...
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... activity which satisfies the drive . The arousal of the drive will lead the individual deeper into the " trap . " Thus , Pav- lovian conditioning leads into canalization . We can use Holt in another way . He suggests that , just as the ...
... activity which satisfies the drive . The arousal of the drive will lead the individual deeper into the " trap . " Thus , Pav- lovian conditioning leads into canalization . We can use Holt in another way . He suggests that , just as the ...
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Our Twentiethcentury Vantage Point | 3 |
The Invention of Culture | 47 |
How We Come to Want What We Want | 60 |
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