CHAPTER 7: Fromm: Humanistic Psychoanalysis Flashcards
looks at people from the perspective of psychology, history, and anthropology.
Erich Fromm’s humanistic psychoanalysis
humans have acquired the ability to reason, they can think about their isolated condition-a situation Fromm called____________
human dilemma
human or existential needs.
Relatedness Transcendence Rootedness Sense of Identity Frame of Orientation
is the only relatedness need that can solve our basic human dilemmA
LOVE
enables us to grow beyond the security of our mother and establish ties with the outside world.
Rootedness
an awareness of ourselves as a separate person.
Sense of Identity
the spontaneous activity of the whole, integrated personality, and which is achieved when a person becomes reunited with others.
Positive Freedom
three mechanisms of escape
(1) authoritarianism
(2) destructiveness
(3) conformity
the tendency to give up one’s independence and to unite with a powerful partner;
authoritarianism
an escape mechanism aimed at doing away with other people or things;
destructiveness
surrendering of one’s individuality in order to meet the wishes
of others.
conformity
three major personality disorders:
(1) necrophilia
(2) malignant narcissism
3 incestuous symbiosis, or an extreme dependence on one’s mother or mother surrogate.
the love of death and the hatred of all humanity
necrophilia
a belief that everything belonging to one’s self is of great value and anything belonging to others is worthless
malignant narcissism
an extreme dependence on one’s mother or mother surrogate.
incestuous symbiosis
