Fromm

Question 1

Humanity’s separation from the natural world has produced feelings of loneliness and isolation

Answer 1

basic anxiety

Question 2

Become separate from nature and yet have the capacity to be aware of themselves as isolated beings

Answer 2

human dilemma

Question 3

The human dilemma can only be solved through …

Answer 3

fulfilling our human needs

Question 4

Is the only relatedness need that can solve our basic human dilemma.

Answer 4

love

Question 5

Love comprises…

Answer 5

care, responsibility, respect and knowledge

Question 6

Urge to rise above a passive and accidental existence into the realm of purposefulness and freedom

Answer 6

Transcendence

Question 7

To kill for reasons other than survival

Answer 7

Malignant aggression

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Rootedneess

Question 9

An awareness of ourselves as a separate person

Answer 9

Sense of identity

Question 10

A roadmap to make way through the world

Answer 10

Frame of orientation

Question 11

Results from humans being torn from nature yet remaining in the world with the same physical limitations as other animals.

Answer 11

The Burden of Freedom

Question 12

3 Mechanisms of Escape

Answer 12

• authoritarianism
• destructiveness
• conformity

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Authoritarianism

Question 14

Aimed at doing away with other people

Answer 14

Destructiveness

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Conformity

Question 16

The human dilemma can only be solved through ___.

Answer 16

Positive freedom

Question 17

Relatively permanent way of relating to people and things; a substitute for instincts

Answer 17

Character orientations

Question 18

People relate to the world through ____ and ____.

Answer 18

Assimilation and socialization

Question 19

Source of all good lies outside themselves and only way to relate to the world is to receive things including love, knowledge and possessions

Answer 19

Receptive character

Question 20

Source of all good lies outside of themselves also but they aggressively take what they want rather than passively receiving it

Answer 20

Exploitative character

Question 21

Seek to save what they already obtained; live in the past

Answer 21

Hoarding character

Question 22

See themselves as commodities and value themselves against the criterion of their ability to sell themselves; fewer positive traits than other orientations

Answer 22

Marketing character

Question 23

What comprises a productive orientation?

Answer 23

work, love and thought

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Malignant narcissism

Question 25

An extreme independence on one’s mother or mother surrogate

Answer 25

Incestuous symbiosis

Question 26

Malignant narcissism: preoccupation with one’s health

Answer 26

Hypochondriasis

Question 27

Malignant narcissism: preoccupation with guilt

Answer 27

Moral hypochondriasis

Question 28

Possession of all 3 personality disorders

Answer 28

Syndrome of decay

Question 29

Goal of Fromm’s therapy

Answer 29

to work toward satisfaction of the basic human needs; shared communication in which therapist is simply a human being rather than a scientist

Question 30

Most common character orientation

Answer 30

Nonproductive Receptive type

Question 31

2nd most common character orientation

Answer 31

productive hoarding type

Question 32

3rd most common character orientation

Answer 32

nonproductive exploitative type