Fromm Flashcards
seek to save that which they have already obtained. They hold everything inside and do not let go of anything.
Hoarding
A person “can be free and not alone, critical and yet not filled with doubts, independent and yet an integral part of mankind”.
Positive Freedom
feel that 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 possessions.
Receptive
Tendency to give up the independence of one’s own individual self and to fuse one’s self with somebody or something outside oneself, in order to acquire the strength which the individual is lacking
Authoritarianism
What are the 3 dimensions of productive?
Working, Loving, and Reasoning
humans have been torn away from their prehistoric union in nature and left with no powerful instincts to adapt to a changing word.
Human Dilemma
an extreme dependence on the mother or mother surrogate.
Incestuous Symbiosis
urge to rise above passive and accidental experiences. (Destructiveness and Creativeness)
Transcendence
believe that the source of all good is outside themselves and they are aggressive and self-centered.
Exploitative
a consistent way of looking at the world. (Rational and Irrational goals)
Frame of orientation
an outgrowth of modern commerce in which trade is no longer personal but carried out by large, faceless corporations. (“They think themselves so highly”)
Marketing
This impedes the perception of reality so that everything belonging to a narcissistic person is highly valued and everything belonging to another is devalued.
Malignant Narcissism
Rooted in the feelings of aloneness, isolation, and powerlessness. It is aimed at doing away with other people or things.
Destructiveness
assumes that humanity’s separation from the natural world has produced feelings of loneliness and isolation, a condition called basic anxiety.
Humanistic Psychoanalysis
This personality hate humanity; they are racists, warmongers, and bullies; they love bloodshed, destruction, terror, and torture; and they delight in destroying life. (They love death)
Necrophilia