The following statements by Maslow express signifi cant disagreements with Freud: (a) “Growth is, in itself, a rewarding and exciting process … Given suffi cient gratifi cation, free choice, and lack...

The following statements by Maslow express signifi cant disagreements with Freud: (a) “Growth is, in itself, a rewarding and exciting process … Given suffi cient gratifi cation, free choice, and lack of threat, [the child] renounces … [the oral stage] himself. He doesn’t have to be ‘kicked upstairs.’ ” (b) “Healthy people welcome drive increases, and may well complain that the trouble with eating is that it kills my appetite.” (c) “For the child who hasn’t been loved enough, obviously the treatment of fi rst choice [during psychotherapy] is to love him to death, to just slop it all over him.” In each case, do you agree with Maslow or Freud? Why?