#motivation__motive__need  the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action; the reason for the action; "we did not understand his motivation"; "he acted with the best of motives"
  supertype:  psychological_feature__psychologicalfeature  a feature of the mental life of a living organism
  subtype:  life.motivation  a motive for living; "pottery was his life"
  subtype:  rational_motive  a motive that can be defended by reasoning or logical argument
     subtype:  reason.rational_motive__ground  a rational motive for a belief or action; "the reason that war was declared"; "the grounds for their declaration"
        subtype:  occasion  reason; "there was no occasion for complaint"
        subtype:  score.reason__account  grounds; "don't do it on my account"; "the paper was rejected on account of its length"; "he tried to blame the victim but his success on that score was doubtful"
        subtype:  why__wherefore  the cause or intention underlying an action or situation esp in the phrase "the whys and wherefores"
     subtype:  inducement__incentive__motivator  a positive motivational influence
        subtype:  moral_force__moralforce__dynamic  an efficient incentive; "they hoped it would act as a spiritual dynamic on all churches"
     subtype:  disincentive__deterrence  a negative motivational influence
  subtype:  irrational_motive  a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic
     subtype:  irrational_impulse  a strong spontaneous and irrational motivation; "his first impulse was to denounce them"; "the urge to find out got him into trouble"
        subtype:  irresistible_impulse__compulsion  an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid
     subtype:  mania__passion__cacoethe  an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
        subtype:  agromania  an intense desire to be alone or out in the open
        subtype:  dipsomania__alcoholism__potomania  an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
        subtype:  egomania  an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs
        subtype:  kleptomania  an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
        subtype:  logorrhea__logomania  pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
        subtype:  monomania__possession  a mania restricted to one thing or idea
        subtype:  necrophilia__necromania  an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies
        subtype:  phaneromania  an irresistible desire to pick a superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting)
        subtype:  pyromania  an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things
        subtype:  trichotillomania  an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair
     subtype:  compulsion.irrational_motive__obsession  an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions against your will
        subtype:  onomatomania  obsession with a particular word which the person uses repeatedly or which intrudes into consciousness
  subtype:  urge__impulse  an instinctive motive; "profound religious impulses"
     subtype:  abience  (psychology) an urge to withdraw or avoid a situation or an object
     subtype:  adience  (psychology) an urge to accept or approach a situation or an object
     subtype:  death_instinct__deathinstinct__death_wish__deathwish  (psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die
     subtype:  wanderlust  very strong or irresistible impulse to travel
  subtype:  ethical_motive__ethicalmotive__ethics__morals__morality  motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
     subtype:  hedonism  the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle
     subtype:  scruples__conscience__moral_sense__moralsense__sense_of_right_and_wrong  motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
        subtype:  superego  (psychoanalysis) that part of the unconscious mind that acts as a conscience
        subtype:  wee_small_voice__small_voice__voice_of_conscience  an inner voice that judges your behavior
        subtype:  sense_of_shame__sense_of_duty  a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility
     subtype:  Inner_Light__Light__Light_Within__Christ_Within  a divine presence believed by Quakers to enlighten and guide the soul
  subtype:  psychic_energy__psychicenergy__mental_energy  an actuating force or factor
     subtype:  incitement__provocation  a means of arousing or stirring to action
        subtype:  signal.incitement  any incitement to action; "he awaited the signal to start"; "the victory was a signal for wild celebration"
     subtype:  libidinal_energy__libidinalenergy  (psychoanalysis) psychic energy produced by the libido
        subtype:  cathexis__charge  (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object; "Freud thought of cathexis as a psychic analog of an electrical charge"
        subtype:  acathexis  (psychoanalysis) a lack of cathexis; a condition in which significant objects or memories arouse no emotion in an individual

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