Erich Fromm Part 2

Question 1

What is the pathology of normalcy

Answer 1

The idea that trying to be just like everybody else is its own form of sickness. The shifting of individuals to accommodate the pathological needs of society.

Question 2

Define cultural neurosis

Answer 2

Societies lack of adjustment to the needs of its members

Question 3

What are the four pathological character types

Answer 3

1. Receptive orientation
2. Hoarding
3. Exploitative
4. Marketing

Question 4

Define receptive orientation

Answer 4

all good things are received from sources outside of self

Question 5

Define Hoarding orientation

Answer 5

strive to create fortress containing all one would ever need. Incapable of letting go

Question 6

Define exploitative orientation

Answer 6

feelings of alienation solved by taking away from others

Question 7

Define Marketing orientation

Answer 7

Representing ultimate alienation; selling oneself without knowing who we are

Question 8

What is the one healthy character type?

Answer 8

The productive type?

Question 9

Define the productive type

Answer 9

personality without the mask: strong sense of identity

Question 10

Receptive orientation corresponds to what escape from freedom?

Answer 10

Authoritarianism (masochism)

Question 11

Exploitative orientation corresponds to what escape from freedom?

Answer 11

Authoritarianism (sadism)

Question 12

Hoarding orientation corresponds to what escape from freedom?

Answer 12

Perfectionist to destructive

Question 13

Marketing orientation corresponds to what escape from freedom?

Answer 13

Automation conformer

Question 14

Productive orientation corresponds to what escape from freedom?

Answer 14

Nope. Instead, it finds freedom and responsibility

Question 15

Define having mode

Answer 15

We are defined by what I have: neurotic orientation

Question 16

Define being mode

Answer 16

Focus on experience, not objectification: the productive orientation

Question 17

Which mode is a product of our society?

Answer 17

Having mode

Question 18

Define biophilia

Answer 18

love of life and growth

Question 19

Define necrophilia

Answer 19

infatuation with decay and that which is not alive