Human Motivation Theory of Motivation

18 1 The child‟s smallness The feeling of being small is always direct his gaze upwards, and undoubtedly implants a sense of inferiority. This feeling is the representative of the early year experiences. The child‟s smallness does not attain to a clear or rational understanding of the child‟s part. 2 The child‟s physical weakness Children will realize that they are weak and this is the consequence of which the world‟s resistance to all efforts of the little ones to carry out. Children will realize that their wishes are immeasurably greater than those encountered by adults. This weakness is brought home to the child‟s consciousness especially by the behavior of the adults in his environment, who are do not want them to be the part of their talk to stress things more than is necessary or useful. 3 The unreliability of the child‟s knowledge Children attempt very early to frame general laws and to develop comprehensive conceptions of things. The confidence of the child in the completeness of his understanding added to the variation in the meaning of words, and the diversity of their syntactical usage, which soon strikes many children. 4 The universe gives them the impression of being unaccountable Children‟s confidence in the regularity of events is small. Therefore, it is easy for children to believe in miracles. The laws of cause and effects which for adults seem so obvious and infringed, do not all possess these attributes for the child. 19 Many actions of adults must indeed seem to the child to be unintelligible and hence unaccountable. Therefore, in this point of fact, adults are guilty of much that, regarded even objectively. It seems quite unaccountably inconsequential. The contention that uncertainty is an essential feature of child life will presumably be met by reference to the many familiar sayings that speak of the “security” in which the child lives. Security is the correlative of insecurity Weiner, 1980. The insecurity is arising out from the nature of the child‟s environment. In the other word, the insecurity is arising from the environment as experienced by the child in virtue of his own nature, the weakness of his body, and his lack of knowledge. This insecurity raises serious obstacles to the will to power, obstacles which are original and inherent in it, rather than antagonistic. The will power is needed for all striving for the good and resistance to the evil Weiner, 1980.

a. Fantasy and the necessity for compensation

“Play” is important in this way as imaginary compensation. Play is an active expression of the tendencies directed towards pleasure of right function and that is also of the great importance as a gradual preparation for the serious activities of life, it must also be acknowledged that most games represent an imaginary compensation for the child‟s position; for all the motive of almost all games is “being grown up”. Fantasy broadly provides an imaginary world for the day dreamer, which all the factors which troubled him in the world of reality are either eliminated or converted into their opposites.