Tag Archives: needs

The Human Kingdom

Posted by Ken Fields on March 27, 2010 at 11:15 am.

The human kingdom is situated at stage 4 and all the archetypal themes relevant to that stage of development apply to us as humans on a broad general basis. The developmental tasks, needs  motivations and paths for humans apply to all of us.  Of course, within that human kingdom, which we might call 4th Grade, [...]

Developmental Motivations

Posted by Ken Fields on November 18, 2009 at 9:48 pm.

What motivates you?  What motivates your friends, your companions? (Remember from a previous past that “socio” means “companions.”). What motivates a society? A nation? Or a collection of nations, that makes of a human world? What is “motive?”
Motivations are energies that animate the psyche, which animates the bio, the body. Psyche motivations also animate the [...]

Needs To Know

Posted by Ken Fields on November 9, 2009 at 9:50 am.

Our developmental needs can be expressed in  broad-based and comprehensive terms, as depicted in the one word labels in the table below.  Each word-label can be extensively elaborated upon but, for the sake of general discussion, these one word labels can suffice. They are more like over-arching themes for each psyche-socio stage of development. And, [...]

The Needs Of A Child

Posted by Ken Fields on November 1, 2009 at 2:27 pm.

In a sense, we are all children….the fundamental needs we had as a child don’t go away just because we are now an adolescent or an adult; those needs are still quite prevalent; but, because they have been met, are taken care of, on a daily basis,  we focus on higher more pressing needs….
The needs [...]