ABSTRACT
Insofar as the discussionof trying was restricted to intention, i.e., what a person is trying to do, and to exertion, i.e., how hard he is trying to do it, we were dealing with motivation at a relatively superficial level; we did not consider the question of why he is doing it. Intention and exertion were conceptualized as the constituents or aspects of trying, not as the conditions of trying. But, as we have pointed out more than once, man has a strong urge to push toward deeper levels of understanding, those levels that reveal the conditions behind the events with which he is confronted. In this chapter we shall trace a few outlines of the way one of the conditions of trying—desire, and its counterpart, pleasure or enjoyment—is managed in interpersonal behavior.
