The third set of motives concerns the intertwined issues of our fears and desires, as they are organized in emotionally-invested cognitive schemas about our relationship to the primary caretakers of childhood. They are desires to admire and be admired. They are sexual and aggressive desires, including the full panoply of sexual possibilities and forms of sexual violence. Ultimately, they are desires for wholeness and maturity, versus for regression. Here, the self reenacts the relationships of childhood, unconsciously perceiving new situations as replays of very old issues.
Actions can combine in any and all possible constellations.
Thus, similar actions may have different kinds of reasons. And similar reason may usher forth with different kinds of actions. The journalist may submit for practical reasons, for example, because it is the only way to get the politician to release the story or because he knows politician is a friend of the publisher, who has been known to retaliate against reporters in the past. The journalist may do so because the politician has done something that he believes is normatively correct and deserves praise. The journalist may do so because he fears challenging authority.