Functional Autonomy
Gordon Allport drew distinction between motive and drive. He suggested drive, as a reaction to a motive could outgrow the motive as reason. The drive, is then, autonomous and distinct from the motive.
Allport's theory "avoids the absurdity of regarding the energy of life now, in the present. Learning brings new systems of interests, as it does new abilities and skills. No matter their stage, these interests are always contemporary, whatever drives, drives now."
Functional autonomy evident in the drive to make money, when it becomes an end in itself. Many obsessive and compulsive acts are manisfestation of functional autonomy.
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