Borel conceptualizes human motivation as the individual's striving toward control of cause and effect in his environment, to overcome the reality of infantile helplessness in regard to his parents. This striving is called security seeking. Unless parents are secure enough to allow a child to develop his own independent actions within his capabilities, he will be forced to go through life behaving in ways to please others, with resultant anger and ambivalence toward love objects. Thus the person will obtain only the illusion of controlling his environment. In the broad sense the author attempts to fit all behavior into this mold.