The document discusses the psychological challenges individuals face in understanding and addressing their motivations, notably how personal failures can lead to broader societal issues. It highlights the interplay of vanity, guilt, and self-distrust that complicates human behavior and feels like a cycle of false motivations impacting one's personality. The author suggests that recognizing these dynamics is essential for personal growth and achieving harmony within oneself.

1. The Spirit in disorder
From Psychology of Motivation Paul Diel (Ed. Payot)
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C. LecocqC. Lecocq

2. Warning: This part of Psychology of
Motivation seems to be hard to apply to
ourselves despite its accuracy.
The economic bankruptcies of our
democracies are the consequences of
our personal psychic failures.
They reveal our exaltations to the
multitude of worldly desires and our
eternal thirst pseudo recognitions.

3. Human being may yet be a hero for
himself if he can discern the
unchangeable from what is editable.
He can achieve or sublimate his desires
and dissolve them.
He can defend family, friends, values and
develop an infinite number of creative
solutions to improve its situation.
These solutions result from his
imaginative capacity rightly
MOTIVATED thanks to his personal
balance and inner harmony (see Greek
Myth of Perseus).
beheading of Medusa by Perseus
Few people know withstand the swelling of their
ego, especially in this time of so many vain
entertainment and communication supports.

4. HOW DOES IT WORK?
Psychic functioning
This calculation is based on 4 main
reasons that escape to his conscious
but which are one of the expressions
of our unconscious: “The false
motivations."
They unconsciously motivated to act,
communicate and influence the
behavior of each of us.
Alone in reflection or in his
relations with others, the human
being does more or less
consciously a permanent "mental
calculus".

5. Vanity
1.To socially exist and try to build his personality ,
human puts himself forward; he acts and speaks to
show himself, especially in adolescence.
Pushed by his imagination and his own conviction
force, he goes too far: this is one of the faces of Vanity.
The word Vanity must be understood primarily by its
Latin root, vanitas: the vain, which is used to anything
or anyone, who acts vainly.
Culpability
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Self
distrust
The functioning of the Extra-conscious psychism falsely
motivated
Construction of the conscious ego and perception of others
2. By ambivalence, human can inhibit and withdraw into
himself with the feeling of not being up to those he
meets. He may feels too much guilty.
These two ambivalent poles can be expressed in
multiple stages, in various forms and in any occasion of
everyday life.
The swing from one pole to the other leads to mistrust
ourselves, often repressed.

6. Fear the reaction of others
Vanity Accusation
Culpability Sentimentality
The projection on others: The 4 Trends False Motivation
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Projection: shift the blame on others
Projection: take pity to have a good conscience
Fear the reaction of others
Other
distrust
Self
distrust
Generally, we repress our vanity and our guilt often to project them onto others.
The sequences of minor but daily elements close this evil square and scatters our
psychic energy.

7. The 4 Trends False Motivation
The oscillations increase and reinforce themselves by intricacies
(see scheme black arrows )
Paul Diel details these mental states that lead to the destruction of
personality.
Vanity Accusation
Culpability Sentimentality
M
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H
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S
Self
distrust
Other
distrust
Destruction
of the
Personnality

8. False motivation and its infinite expressions
A common symptom in each of these expressions:
Exaltation.

9. Fear the reaction of others
Vanity Accusation
Culpability Sentimentality
M
E
O
T
H
E
R
S
Projection: shift the blame on others
Projection: take pity to have a good conscience
Fear the reaction of others
Other
distrust
Self
distrust
If the 4 trends of False Motivation dominate the psychic
qualities disappear and the character becomes psycho
pathologically nervous or banal, so sick. Square below closes.
Patience or impatience
exalted towards
ourselves or others
Exalted sentiments:
suspicion, love-hate, fear,
wickedness, withdrawal etc
Self Esteem
loss
Loss of
Confidence in
others
Vanitious
overstimation of
ourselves
Sentimental
overestimates
others
Underestimates others
accusingly
Guilty
underestimation
of ourselves

10. The man torn by his Demons
it was the
description of the
spirit messy.
Salvation will be given
in next presentation:
« The Disorder
introspected »
To be continued…
The Temptation of Saint
Antoine; M Schongauer
15th Century.