Three Theories of Human Nature & Reality Abraham H. Maslow, Albert Ellis, and Carl Gustav

Jung believed that alchemy, astrology, Buddhism, certain primitive rituals and religions, mythology, and even psychotic hallucinations can shed light on personality. Such experiences, although not necessarily rational, are beneficial to an individual's growth because they "constitute the wisdom and experience of uncounted centuries" (Good 138).

Maslow and Ellis, on the other hand, regard welladjustment to be the result of clear, reasonable thinking. One has to recognize and understand unrealistic and unreasonable thoughts in order to grow in the direction toward personal happiness. It is apparent that Jung's orientation toward mysticism might be considered antithetical to rationality, yet from a pragmatic point of view, his focus on a person's ability to achieve personal fulfillment is closer to that of Maslow and Ellis than might otherwise appear.

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sychology, Colin Wilson states the significance of the unconscious as a source of creativity. Whether rational or irrational, the unconscious can provide a wellspring of inspiration that can be nourishing. Wilson writes that Jung "had a strong feeling for creativity, for the ideas and images that can touch the source of imaginative excitement ... these had a value in themselves, that places them in a higher class than the fantasies of the neurotic" (107). Among the personality theorists discussed, Maslow was perhaps the most optimistic. As Paul Good writes in The Individual, Maslow chided Freud for his view of the unconscious as little more than a source of potentially destructive impulses (143). To Maslow, "the unconscious was the fountainhead 'of creativeness, of joy, of happiness, of goodness'" (Good 143). In his Toward a Psychology of Being Maslow sought to bring an end to behavioristic psychology and Freudianism with humanistic psychology, or "the psychology of being." He believed that the human's inner nature is basically good; consequently, this intrinsic goodness should not be suppressed. The more we introspect and examine our inner natures, the more we are able to get in contact with the "hows" of satisfying our n
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