/lit/ - Literature

Struggling to write a story based around the psychological changes in a character is forcing me to, in effect, relearn all the models and terminology of psychological motivation. Like Maslow Self-Actualization crap, I can't work out if this is procrastination/aversion and the answers (i.e. solutions to the aesthetic problems of writing a story) are easily reachable and I simply haven't asked myself the right questions and attacked the problem in the right way or if really there's this kind of meta-journey I personally need to go on to gain a deeper understanding of myself and mankind.
Probably the not attacking the problem the right way thing.