Maslow (1943) writes, as a psychologist, about a 'hierarchy' of needs, a series of
conditions which must be met for each person.
'There are at least five sets of goals which we may call basic needs. These are briefly
physiological, safety, love, esteem and self-actualisation. ... These basic goals are
related to one another, being arranged in a hierarchy of prepotency. This means
that the most prepotent goal will monopolise consciousness ... The less prepotent
needs are minimised, even forgotten or denied. But when a need is fairly well
satisfied, the next prepotent (higher) need emerges ... ' (1943, p.395)