Erich Fromm Flashcards
The three components of Fromm’s threefold blend
- Freud’s biological determinism
- Marx’s sociometric determinism
- paradoxical nature of freedom
Medieval reality of freedom
Freedom anchored with prescribed roles of society
Renassance freedom
emergence of personal rationality and responsibility
Industrial and captilistic freedom
economic and social freedom
Social revolution freedom
individual rights and freedoms
What kind of freedom do we have today?
Self-contained individualism
In the modern world, what equates social freedom?
individualism
What is consequence of economic and political freedom
Increased isolation from others and yourself
What marks existence in a modern society?
independence
What are the three escapes from existential freedom?
Authoritarianism, destructiveness, automation conformity
What is authoritariansim?
To submit to, or become, control
What is the extreme form of submitting to control?
masochism
What is the extreme form of becoming the control
sadism
Define destructiveness
aim is to destroy that which causes powerlessness: failure to do so results in destructiveness
What is automation conformity
Ceasing to be oneself, mimicking society to offset feelings of lonliness
What are the 6 essential needs?
- Need for rootedness
- Need for relatedness
- Need for sense of identity
- Need for transcendence, a sense of effectiveness
- Need for object of devotion and frame of orientation
- Need for excitation and stimulation
Define social unconscious
socially conditioned filter that establishes schemas by which the individual is expected to order the world
What was Eric Fromm known for?
Psychoanalytic and humanistic social psychology
What is destructiveness the outcome of?
An unfulfilled life
What is created to compensate for a loss of spontanaety
pseudoself
