Chapter 8. Fromm: Humanistic Psychoanalysis

Question 1

True or False. According to Fromm, people have been torn away from their prehistoric union with nature and also with one another.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

People have the power of ________, ________, and

________.

Answer 2

reasoning, foresight, and imagination.

Question 3

This contributes to feelings of loneliness, isolation, and homelessness.

Answer 3

Self-awareness

Question 4

True or False. To escape feelings of isolation, people strive to become united with others and with nature.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

What human need can move people toward a

reunion with the natural world?

Answer 5

1. relatedness
2. transcendence
3. rootedness
4. sense of identity
5. frame of orientation

Question 6

A sense of ________ drives people to unite with another person through submission, power, or love.

Answer 6

relatedness

Question 7

It is the need for people to rise above their passive existence and create or destroy life.

Answer 7

transcendence

Question 8

________ is the need for a consistent structure in people’s lives.

Answer 8

Rootedness

Question 9

A ________ gives a person a feeling of “I” or “me.”

Answer 9

sense of identity

Question 10

A __________ is a consistent way of looking at the world.

Answer 10

frame of orientation

Question 11

Refers to the sense of being alone.

Answer 11

basic anxiety

Question 12

3 mechanisms of escape:

Answer 12

1. authoritarianism
2. destructiveness
3. conformity

Question 13

Psychologically healthy people acquire the ___________.

Answer 13

syndrome of growth

Question 14

The syndrome of growth includes:

Answer 14

1. positive freedom integrated personality
2. biophilia
3. love for fellow humans

Question 15

The spontaneous activity of a whole, integrated personality.

Answer 15

positive freedom

Question 16

Pertains to a passionate love of life.

Answer 16

biophilia

Question 17

Other people live nonproductively and acquire things through:

Answer 17

1. passively receiving things
2. exploiting others
3. hoarding things
4. marketing or exchanging things, including themselves

Question 18

Some extremely sick people are motivated by the ___________.

Answer 18

syndrome of decay

Question 19

The syndrome of decay includes:

Answer 19

1. necrophilia
2. malignant narcissism
3. incestuous symbiosis

Question 20

Refers to the love of death;

Answer 20

necrophilia

Question 21

It is the infatuation with self.

Answer 21

malignant narcissism

Question 22

The tendency to remain bound to a mothering person or her equivalents.

Answer 22

incestuous symbiosis

Question 23

What is the goal of Fromm’s psychotherapy?

Answer 23

to establish a union with patients so that they can become reunited with the world

Question 24

Assumes that humanity’s separation from the natural world has produced feelings of loneliness and isolation, a condition called basic anxiety.

Answer 24

humanistic psychoanalysis

Question 25

They have no powerful instincts to adapt to a changing world; instead, they have acquired the facility to reason—a condition Fromm called the _________.

Answer 25

human dilemma

Question 26

These have emerged during the evolution of human culture, growing out of their attempts to find an answer to their existence and to avoid becoming insane.

Answer 26

existential needs