Erich Fromm Flashcards
looks at people from the perspective of psychology, history, and anthropology. Influenced by Freud and Horney, Fromm developed a more culturally oriented theory than Freud and a much broader theory than Horney.
Fromm’s Humanistic Psychoanalysis
because humans have acquired the ability to reason, they can think about their isolated condition—a situation Fromm called the ______?
human dilemma
Our human dilemma cannot be solved by satisfying our animal needs. It can only be addressed by fulfilling our uniquely human needs, an accomplishment that moves us toward a reunion with the natural world called
existential needs
5 human needs according to Erich Fromm
Relatedness
Transcendence
Rootedness
Sense of Identity
Frame of Orientation
the ability to unite with another while retaining one’s own individuality and integrity; is the only relatedness need that can solve our basic human dilemma.
Love
killing for reasons other than survival
malignant aggression
the need to establish roots and to feel at home again in the world.
Rootedness
an awareness of ourselves as a separate person; is expressed nonproductively as conformity to a group and productively as individuality
Sense of Identity
a road map or consistent philosophy by which we find our way through the world.
Frame of Orientation
a feeling of being alone in the world.
basic anxiety
the tendency to give up one’s independence and to unite with a powerful partner
authoritarianism
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
the spontaneous activity of the whole, integrated personality, and which is achieved when a person becomes reunited with others.
Positive Freedom
People relate to the world by acquiring and using things (assimilation) and by relating to self and others (socialization), and they can do so either nonproductively or productively
Character Orientations
the source of all good lies outside themselves and that the only way they can relate to the world is to receive things, including love, knowledge, and material objects
receptive orientation
the source of good lies outside themselves, but they aggressively take what they want rather than passively receiving it.
exploitative orientation
they try to save what they have already obtained, including their opinions, feelings, and material possessions.
Hoarding characters
see themselves as commodities and value themselves against the criterion of their ability to sell themselves.
People with a marketing orientation
Productive love necessitates a passionate love of all life
biophilia
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