Attitude
One
of the most important energic phenomena of psychic life is the progression and
regression of
libido. Progression could be defined as the daily advance of
the process of psychological adaptation. We know that
adaptation is not
something that is achieved once and for all, though there is a tendency to
believe the contrary. This is due to mistaking a person's psychic attitude
for actual adaptation. We can satisfy the demands of adaptation only by
means of a suitably directed attitude. Consequently, the achievement of
adaptation is completed in two stages:
(1) attainment of attitude,
(2) completion of adaptation by means of the attitude.
... A man's attitude to reality is something extraordinarily persistent, but the
more persistent his mental habitus is, the less permanent will be his effective
achievement of adaptation. This is the necessary consequence of the
continual
changes in the enrivonment and the new adaptations demanded by them.
Attitude determines Altitude!