It may be noticed that I am concerned with unconscious motivation, something that is not altogether a popular concept. The data I need are not to be culled from a form-filling questionnaire. A computer cannot be programmed to give motives that are unconscious in the individuals who are the guinea pigs of an investigation. This is where those who have spent their lives doing psychoanalysis must scream out for sanity against the insane belief in surface phenomena that characterizes computerized investigations of human beings.
Winnicott, D. (1971, 2005). “Contemporary Concepts of Adolescent Development and Their Implications for Higher Education”. In: Playing and Reality (pp 192-193). Routledge: NY.
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