ABSTRACT
DRIVES AND AFFECTS ARISE WITH THE SEPARATION ii'ROM COMPLETE embeddedness, a state in which no separation exists between the organism and its sheltering and nourishing environment. Such embeddedness distinguishes plant from animal life; it also distinguishes the intraovine and intrauterine phases of animal and human life from the phase after leaving the sheltering egg or womb. The function of the drives and affects is to bring the organism, now separated from embedding shelter and energy supply, into contact with the sources of energy supply on its new level of existence and, within the larger environment, to maintain its contact with a favorable environment and avoid an unfavorable one.
