Erich Fromm (Humanistic Psychoanalysis) Flashcards
Humanity’s separation from the natural world.
Humanistic Psychoanalysis
feeling of loneliness and isolation
Basic Anxiety
human have “torn away” from nature
Existential Dichotomies
5 Human Needs
- Relatedness
- Transcendences
- Rootedness
- A sense of Identity
- Frame of Orientation
- union with another person or other person
- Relatedness
- urge to rise above
- Transcendences
- need to establish roots or to feel at home again
- Rootedness
- capacity to be aware of ourselves as separate anxiety.
- Sense of Identity
- human needs a road map to make their way through the world.
- Frame of Orientation
humans have been torn from nature, yet they remain part of the natural world, subject to the world.
The Burden of Freedom
Mechanism of Escape
- Authoritarianism
- Destructiveness
- Conformity
- Positive Freedom
the totality of inherited and acquired psychic qualities which are characteristic of one individual and which make the individual unique.
Perosnality
most important of the acquired qualities of personality.
Character
4 Non- Productive Orientation
- Receptive- more concerned with receiving than giving.
- Exploiting- aggressive take what they desire.
- Hoarding- hold everything and not letting go.
- Marketing or exchanging things- treating people as commodities
3 Productive- Orientation
- Working
- Loving
- Reasoning
a passionate love of life and all the is ALIVE
Biophilia
attraction to death, sexual contact with a corpse.
Necrophilia (Personality disorder)
valuing only themselves and devalued others.
Malignant Narcissm
extreme dependence of the mother or mother surrogate
Incestuous Symbiosis
