0 a person's desire to use all their abilities to achieve and be everything that they possibly can. The expression is used by Maslow in his theory of human motivation
Certainly, many subjectivists think that the good life consists in something subtler than happiness : wellbeing or self-actualization, for example.
The self-negation of non-being is the self-actualization of the simplest structures.
The process of self-actualization is self-sustaining and self-actualizing.
The experience is one of self-growth, self-actualization, and self-respect.
Nor is it to suggest that they aspired to romantic fulfilment through 'companionate marriage ', although the desire and potential for self-actualization through love has already been discussed.
In his view, the tendency to actualize itself as fully as possible is the basic drive... the drive of self-actualization.
He maintains that those who have reached self-actualization are capable of love.
He thought that it was one of 5 human needs in his hierarchy of needs, along with physiological needs, safety, self-esteem, and self-actualization.
