THE THEME OF SELF-ACTUALIZATION, so central in Goldstein's organismic formulations, represents a motivational perspective that has figured significantly in twentieth century psychoanalytic and psychological theory.

An ancient concept which reaches back in Western philosophy to Aristotle, the principle of self-actualization finds its first modern psychological expression in the early analytic writings of Jung. And in one way or another it informs the work of all those neoFreudian psychoanalysts who framed heterodox theories of human personality—Adler, Rank, Fromm, Horney, Sullivan, and, of course, Jung himself. All of these theorists, each in their own individual way, posit a positive and expansive concept of human