SELF-MANIPULATION AS A FORM OF DESIRE FULFILLMENT IN “CATCH ME IF YOU CAN” NOVEL BY FRANK W. ABAGNALE JR

Every human being needs the need to be able to continue living one of the things that is needed is the esteem needs. This study aimed to find the esteem need from Frank William Abagnale in Catch Me If You Can novel by Frank W. Abagnale Jr. which is a real story of the main character, Frank W. Abagnale. This novel was once the best seller in New York published in 1980 which tells the story of a person who is an expert in fake checks, manipulate identities and run away to fulfill life's needs and recognition of the status, achievements and identity of a character. The theory used in this paper is based on Abraham Maslow's theory. Abraham Maslow described the needs of human life in the form of a Pyramid, where the most basic parts are the most important needs in human life. This research that used by researcher is a qualitative research. The process of presenting research results uses informal methods by describing them through words. From the process of data analysis, it can be found that the main character Frank Abagnale in the novel “Catch Me if You Can” continues to struggle to fulfill his life needs as a human. It all started from the needs of Frank who wanted to meet the needs of self-esteem and recognition from people around his environment.

Empirical Relationships Among Five Types of Well-Being

Philosophers, psychologists, economists, and other social scientists continue to debate the nature of human well-being. The authors argue that this debate centers around five main conceptualizations of well-being: hedonic well-being, life satisfaction, desire fulfillment, eudaimonia, and non-eudaimonic objective list well-being. Although each type of well-being is conceptually different, this chapter addresses the question of whether they are empirically distinguishable. The authors first developed and validated a measure of desire fulfillment and then examined associations between this new measure and several other well-being measures. In addition, they explored associations among all five types of well-being and found high correlations among all measures of well-being. However, correlations generally did not approach unity even when correcting for unreliability. Furthermore, correlations between well-being and related constructs (e.g., demographics, personality) depended on the type of well-being measured. The authors conclude that empirical findings based on one type of well-being measure may not generalize to all types of well-being.

Thus Mammon Spake

Even those who endorse the religious worldview underlying the optimism discussed in the first chapter frequently willfully resist the efforts required to cooperate with God and to respond to the demands that love places upon us with respect to God and neighbor. Like the demons in Paradise Lost, many of us are beguiled by the prospect of pursuing our own happiness and well-being (or flourishing) on our own power, of making a Heaven of the Hell that the philosophy of pessimism has taught us is our current abode. Thus many of us adopt the frame of mind in which we are willing to trust in our own powers, skill, artistry, intelligence, and all the magnificent resources of our own selves. No need of God. No loss in rebellion. This chapter defends certain maligned aspects of a popular philosophical methodology and then conducts a critical study of the current leading literature on well-being and happiness. Assuming we can come to have knowledge of these matters, the chapter critically examines and argues against hedonistic, desire-fulfillment, and perfectionistic theories of well-being, advocating instead for an objective-list theory, and critically examines and argues against hedonistic and life-satisfaction theories of happiness, advocating instead for the Psychic Affirmation view. Thus, the attempt to seek out happiness and well-being on our own power without the benefit of reconciliation with the divine need not be thwarted by skepticism about happiness and well-being.

Dead Sea Apples and Desire-Fulfillment Welfare Theories

This article argues that, in light of Dead Sea apple cases, we should reject desire-fulfillment welfare theories (DF theories). Dead Sea apples are apples that look attractive while hanging on the tree, but which dissolve into smoke or ashes once plucked. Accordingly, Dead Sea apple cases are cases where an agent desires something and then gets it, only to find herself disappointed by what she has gotten. This article covers both actual DF theories and hypothetical (or idealized) DF theories. On actual DF theories the agent's well-being is determined by her actual desires, while on hypothetical DF theories the agent's well-being is determined by the desires that she would have if she were fully and vividly informed with respect to non-evaluative information. Various actual and hypothetical DF theory responses to Dead Sea apple objections are considered, and all such responses are argued to be inadequate.