How do you break through the confines of tradition?

What motivates parents to love their children, and what motivates people to want them? What are their motives for willingly sacrificing for their children? Or why do some behaviors seem like sacrifices to others, while parents don't feel that way?

Study justice, equality, freedom, and the desire for freedom and justice. Why do people fight for justice at great cost, even at the cost of their lives? Why would anyone help the ravaged, the unjustly treated, and the unfortunate, regardless of personal gain?

Human beings are subject to varying degrees of impulsive and visceral aggression in the pursuit of their goals, but they have defenses against this. Of course, blind impulses also occur, but not alone; the two together complete the picture.

So far we have only studied the pathogenic role of frustration, ignoring its "health-causing" role.

Homeostasis, equilibrium, adaptation, self-defense instincts, defenses, and regulation are only negative concepts to which we must add positive ones. Everything seems to be aimed at preserving life, little effort is made to make life meaningful, and his difficulty is not to earn food, but to remain uninterested when he does not eat. If from the point of view of the self-defense instinct we use functional psychology for the study of usefulness, then its extension, beyond human nature functional psychology, is the study of usefulness from the point of view of self-improvement.

People tend not to focus on higher needs and the distinction between higher and lower needs, and the consequences of this attitude will make people more frustrated. Satisfaction leads not to the termination of desires, but to the emergence of higher desires and high levels of frustration and a return to restlessness and dissatisfaction after temporary fulfillment.

Appetites, hobbies and tastes, and beastly, life-and-death hunger and reckless appetite.

The desire for perfection, the emotional craving for nobility (equivalent to the urge to hang a crooked painting right, finish an unfinished job, or agonize over an unsolved problem). Yosemite impulse, the desire to improve the objective world, to right wrongs.

The neglect of cognitive needs by Freud as well as by academic psychologists.

The intentional aspect of aesthetics, the aesthetic need.

We don't quite know what motivates the behavior of heroes, patriots, and martyrs, but we do know that we can't explain healthy people using only Freudian "buts" and reductionism.

What about non-psychology and the psychology of ethics and reason?

Scientific psychology, the psychology of the scientist, the psychology of knowledge, the psychology of the quest for knowledge, the impulse to pursue knowledge, the psychology of the philosophical impulse.

Appreciation, meditation, contemplation.

Often it seems that sexual intercourse is discussed as a matter of how to avoid the plague. This view errs on the side of expanding, seriousizing, and homogenizing the evils of sexual intercourse, which is either supposed to be a very pleasurable pastime, and which may well be an effective medical and educational tool.