Erich Fromm

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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.

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Fromm’s Humanistic Psychoanalysis

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because humans have acquired the ability to reason, they can think about their isolated condition—a situation Fromm called the ______?

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human dilemma

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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

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existential needs

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5 human needs according to Erich Fromm

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Relatedness
Transcendence
Rootedness
Sense of Identity
Frame of Orientation

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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.

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Love

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killing for reasons other than survival

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malignant aggression

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the need to establish roots and to feel at home again in the world.

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Rootedness

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an awareness of ourselves as a separate person; is expressed nonproductively as conformity to a group and productively as individuality

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Sense of Identity

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a road map or consistent philosophy by which we find our way through the world.

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Frame of Orientation

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a feeling of being alone in the world.

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basic anxiety

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the tendency to give up one’s independence and to unite with a powerful partner

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authoritarianism

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the tendency to give up one’s independence and to unite with a powerful partner

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authoritarianism

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an escape mechanism aimed at doing away with other people or things

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destructiveness

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surrendering of one’s individuality in order to meet the wishes of others

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conformity

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the spontaneous activity of the whole, integrated personality, and which is achieved when a person becomes reunited with others.

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Positive Freedom

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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

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Character Orientations

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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

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receptive orientation

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the source of good lies outside themselves, but they aggressively take what they want rather than passively receiving it.

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exploitative orientation

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they try to save what they have already obtained, including their opinions, feelings, and material possessions.

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Hoarding characters

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see themselves as commodities and value themselves against the criterion of their ability to sell themselves.

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People with a marketing orientation

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Productive love necessitates a passionate love of all life

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biophilia

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the love of death and the hatred of all humanity

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necrophilia

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a belief that everything belonging to one’s self is of great value and anything belonging to others is worthless

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malignant narcissism

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an extreme dependence on one’s mother or mother surrogate

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incestuous symbiosis