The role of needs and interests in creativity
The article examines the role of needs and interests as determining factors of creative activity. The authors consider the understanding of needs as desires insufficient. While the term “need” stands for a more ambiguous term - “desire”. Needs are connected with consumption. Only in consumption material and spiritual needs are satisfied. But consumption requires certain products, subjects of consumption, which are produced through productive activity. The process of increasing needshas attracted the attention of numerous authors. There is even the term “the law of increasing needs”. The term “interest” is understood by the authors as man’s attitude to nature, society, himself, his needs, as well as his activity. Needs and interests mainly coincide, but there might be certain differences, and sometimes they might even contradict each other. Animportantcomponentof “interest” isestimate. In addition to individual interests there are social interests: economic, political, scientific, status,etc. The structure of interests is represented by the unity of values orientation and subjective preferences.