Always interesting to see what's lurking in the bowels of your hard drive!
This is something I did ages ago on core human drives, trying (I think) to marry Maslow and Jung (not sure if that's apples and oranges for purists). The big step forward seems to have been dispensing with the pyramid ;o)
And can't quite remember why! May have been part of trying to come up with a 'universal theory of everything' involving archetypes.
Nonetheless, I think I shall revisit and see if I can find some use...
So we start with quite individualistic, self centred drives - the need to eat, be safe and feel loved.
Once secure in this, our social drives kick in - the need to belong to something bigger, to contribute to that 'group' and (ultimately) to have power within or over it.
Then, when we realise status doesn't satisfy, we turn instead to experience - the need for growth, to play and to create for ourselves.
And in that creation of something new, we start to question whether there is more to life after all, and seek that enlightenment - to ask who am I (really), to seek the freedom to be that real you and, ultimately, through that freedom to reach the point of transcendence where you understand that your needs are not actually all that important.
So bringing you back full circle to a point of realisation that all you really need to be happy is food to eat and a roof over your head.
Everything else is just stuff and baggage - psychological or material.
