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Fromm’s basic thesis

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Modern people have been torn away from their pre historic union with nature and also with one another yet they gave the power of REASONING, FORESIGHT, and IMAGINATION

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What makes us the freaks of the universe?

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Combination of lack of animal instincts and presence of rational thougt

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Contributes to the feelings of loneliness, isolation, and homelessness

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Self awareness

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To escape from feelings of loneliness, isolation, and homelessness

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People strive to become reunited with nature and with their fellow human being

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Erich Fromm was influenced by

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Karl Marx and Karen Horney

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Erich Fromm’s theory/humanistic psychoanalysis emphasizes influence on

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Influence of sociobiological factors, history, economics, and class structure

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Humanistic psychoanalysis- erich fromm assumes that

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Separation from the natural world has produced feelings of loneliness and isolation. This condition is called basic anxiety

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Human’s separation from the human world has produced feelings of loneliness and isolation. This condition is called

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Basic anxiety

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Humanistic psychoanalysis looks at people from

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Historical and cultural perspective

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Humanistic psychoanalysis puts less concern on ____ and more concerned on___

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Less concern on individual and more on characteristics common to culture

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What happens humans emerged as separate specie in animal revolution

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They lost most of their instincts and gained an increase in brain devt that permitted SELF AWARENESS, IMAGINATION, PLANNING, and DOUBT

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What makes us different from all other animals

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we have a weak instincts such as self awareness, imagination, planning, and doubt

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Growth of leisure time and personal freedom has resulted in

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Feelings of anxiety, isolation, and personal freedom

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Feelings of isolation has been unbearable that leaves people with two alternatives such as

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To escape freedom into interpersonal dependencies

To move to self realizatiob through productive love and work

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Fromms basic assumption is that individual personality__

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can be understoood only in the light of HUMAN HISTORY

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Human situation/personality must be based on

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Anthropologic-philosophical concept of human existence

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Fromm believed that humans, unlike other animals have been “torn away” from their pre historic union with nature.

They have no powerful instincts to adapt to a changing world instead they acquired the facility to reason. This condition is called

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HUMAN DILEMMA

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Why do people experience human dilemma? -fromm

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Because they have become separate from nature yet they have the capacity to be aware of themselves as isolated beings.

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Accdg to fromm human’s ability is both ___

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Human’s ability to reason is both a blessing and a curse.

It permits people to survive
and
Forces people to solve life/death situation and self realization

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How do people react with existential dichotomy

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They react relative to culture and individual personality

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First and most fundamental dichotomy -fromm

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Life and death

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Existential dichotomies

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Life and death
Self realization
People are ultimately alone, yet we cannot tolerate isolation

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Fromm’s human needs

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Relatedness
Transcendence
Rootedness
Sense of identity
Frame of orientation
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Accdg to fromm people are motivated by

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Physiological needs - hunger sex safety but wont resolve human dilemma

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Existential needs emerged from

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Emerged from evolution of human culture, growing out of their attempts to find an answer to their existence to avoid getting insane

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One impt diff betweeb mentally healthy individual versus neurotic or insace

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They find answer to their existence that corresponds to their total human needs

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Drive for union with another person or other person

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Relatedness

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Basic ways to relate to the world

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Submission
Power
Love

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Submission is

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Becoming part of something bigger than himslef and experiences his identity in connection with the power to which he has submitted

Submit to another or to a group to become one worh the world

Seek power with domineering people

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Power seekers

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Seek relationship with submissive partners

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When a submissive person and a domineering person find each other they establish

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Symbiotic relationship - one that is satisfying to both partners

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Symbiotic relationship

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Blocks growth toward integrity and psychological health

Live on each other and from each other satisfying their craving of closeness yet suffering from lack of inner strength and self reliance which would require freedom and independence

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People in symbiotic relationship are

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Drawn by desperate need of relatedness. Which will never be satisfied

Would constantly seek for power and submission which make them more dependent and less of an individual

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The only route by which a person can become united with the world and at the same time achieve individuality and integrity

Union with somebody or something outside oneself under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of ones own self

Involves sharing and communion with one another yet it allows a person the freedom to be unique and separate.

Allows the person to satisfy the need for relatedness without surrendering integrity and independence

Two people become one yet remain two

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Love

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Common elements of genuine love

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Care
Knowledge
Responsibility
Respect

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The urge to rise above a passive and accidental existence and into realm of purposefulness and freedom

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Transcendence

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To kill for reasons other than survival

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Malignant aggression

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Need to eastablish roots or to feel one at home again in the world

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Rootedness

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People who strive rootedness through fixation are

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Afraid to take the next step of birth.

Deep craving to be mothered

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Fromm is matriarchal

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True influence by johann jakob bachofen

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Fromms view od oediius complex

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Desire to return to mothers womb or breast or to a person with mothering function

42
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Capacity to be aware of ourselves as a separate entity

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Sense of identity

43
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What is self identity’s concept

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“I am I” “I am the subject of my actions”

44
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Healthy people accdg to Fromm

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Less need to conform to the herd
Less ned tingige up their sense of self
They do not have to surrender their freedom and individuality to fit in necuase they possess sense of identity

45
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Being spit off from nature, human needs road map. This make their way through the world

Enables people to organize the various stimuli that impinge on them

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Frame of orientation

46
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Without road map people would be

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Confused and unable to act purposefully and consistently

47
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Those who lack frame of orientation

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Nevertheless strive to put the events into reliable framework to make sense

48
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Summary of Fromm’s human needs

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See notebook

49
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incestuos feelings accdg to fromm

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based in the deep seated craving to remain in or return to all enveloping womb or to the all nourishing breast.

50
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Johann jakob bachofenn’s view in contrast to freud

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Matriarchal

Mother was the central figure in these ancient social groups

51
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Human needs aim

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Moving people toward reunion with the natural world

52
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Lack of satisfaction in the human needs

-fromm

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Insanity

Fullfilment postice or negatively

53
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Reason is

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Both a blessing and a curse

54
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being free from the security of being one with the mother

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Burden of freedom

55
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Burden of freedom results in

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Basic anxiety

56
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Basic anxiety is

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Feeling of being alone in the world

Produces frightening sense of isolation and aloneness

57
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People free from freedom through

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Mechanism of escape

58
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Mechanism of escape

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Authoritarianism
Destructiveness
Conformity

59
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mechanism of escape are the____ unlike horney’s neurotic trend

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Driving forces in normal people both individual and collectively

60
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Tendency to give up the independence of ones own individual self to fuse ones self with somebody/something outside oneself IN ORDER TO ACQUIRE THE STRENGTH THE INDIVIDUAL IS LACKING

Need to unite with a powerful partner

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Authoritarianism

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2 forms of need to unite woth powerful partner/authoritarianism

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Masochism

Sadism

62
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Results in feelings of powerlessness, weakness, and inferiority.

Aimed at joining oneself to a powerful institution/person

Often disguised as love or loyalty but it will never contribute to independence or authenticity

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Masochism

63
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Unlike masochism it is socially harmful

aimed at reducing basic anxiety through achieving unity with another person/persons.

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Sadism

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3 kinds of sadistic tendencies

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  1. Need to make others dependent on oneself and to gain power over the weak
  2. Compulsion to exploit others, to take advantage of them, or to use them for one owns benefit or pleasure
  3. Desire to see other suffer physically or psychologically
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Seeks to do away with other people

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Destructiveness

66
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By destroying people and objects, a person or a nation attempts to restore lost feelings of power .

By destroying other persons or nations, destructive people eliminate much of the outside world and thus acquire PERVERTED ISOLATION

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True

67
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Try to escape from a sense of aloneness and isolation by giving up their individuality and becoming whatever people desire them to be.

Seldom express their opinions, cling to expected standards of behavior, and ofteb appear stiff and automated

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Conformity

68
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How can people break feeling of conformity and powerlessness

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Achieving self realization

Positive freedom

69
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Spontaneous and full expression of both their rational and emotional potentials

Represents a successful solution of human dilemma of being part of the world yet separate from it

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Positive freedom

70
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Through positive freedom and spontaneous activity

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People overcome the terror of aloneness

Achieve union with the world

Maintain individuality

71
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Twin components of postive freedom

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Love
Work

Through this humans unite with one another and with the world without sacrificing their integrity.

72
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In fromms theory, personality is reflected into one’s _

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Character orientation

73
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A person’s relatively permanent way of relating to people and things

Fromm

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CHARACTER ORIENTATION

74
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Fromm’s denition of personality is

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Totality of inherited and acquired psychic qualities which are characteristic of one individiual and which make the individual unique

75
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Most impt of the acquired qualities of personality

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Character

76
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The relatively permanent system of all non instinctual strivings through which man relates himself to the human and natural world

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Character

77
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Character is substitute for instincts

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TRUE.

Instead of acting accdg to their instinct they act accdg to their character

By acting acting accdg to character, humanns behave efficiently and consistently

78
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2 ways of relating to the world

Fromm

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Assimilation/acquiring and using things

Socialization/ relating to self and othersp

79
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Non productive orientations

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Receptive
Exploitative
Hoarding
Marketing

80
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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, material posession

They want to be showered with love ideas and gift

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Receptive character

81
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What are the positive and negative qualities of receptive people

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+ loyalty acceptance trust

  • passivity submissive lack of self confidence
82
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Believes that the source of good lies outside themselves

They take aggresively take what they want rather than passively receive it

They prefer to steal and plagiarize rather than createp

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Exploitative characterr

83
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What are the postice and negative qualityies of exploitative character

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  • egocentric conceited arrogant seducing

+ impulsive proud charming self confident

84
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Seek to save what they which they have already obtained

They hold everything inside and do not let go of anything

Keep money feelings thoughts to themselves

They tend to live in the past and are repelled to anuthing new

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Hoarding character

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Hoarding character is similar to freud’s___

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Anal character.

They are excessively orderly, stubborn, miserly

86
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Although hoarding character is similar to freuds anal this is not__

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A result of sexual drives but rather part of their general interest in all that is not alive including feces

87
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Postice snd nega traits of hoarding char

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+ orderliness cleanliness punctuality

  • rigidity sterility obstinacy compulsivity lack of creativeness
88
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See themselves as commodities with their personal values dependent on their exchange value that is their ability to sell themselves

Must see themselves as being in constant demand they must make others believe that they are skillful and salable

They adjust personality to what is currently in fashion

Iam as you desire me

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Marketing character

89
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Postice and negativd traits of marketing char

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+ changeability open mindedness adaptability generosity

  • aimlessness oppurtunism inconsistency wastefulness
90
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How does one solve human dilemma

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Unite with the world and with others while retaining uniqueness and individuality

91
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Dimension of productive orientation

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Working
Loving
Reasoning

92
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Biophilic individuals wants to influence through

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Love
Reason
example

93
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Psychologically disturbed people are incapable of

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Love

Failed to establish union with others

94
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3 severe personality disorders or SYNDROME OF DECAY

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Necrophilia
Malignant narcissism
Incestuous symbiosis

95
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Necrophilous person revolves around

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Death
Destruction
Disease
Decay

96
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Pre occupation with guilt about previous transgressions

People who are fixated on themselves are likely to internalize experience and to dwell on bot physical health and moral virtues

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Moral hypochondriasis

97
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Extreme dependence on the mother or mother surrogate

Exagerated form of the more common and more benign mother fixation

Originates in infancy

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Incestuous symbiois

98
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Syndrome of growth

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Biophilia
Love
Positive freedom

99
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Fromms psychoterapy

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Accurate communication

100
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Patients come for theraphy to satisfy basic human needs

Whare are the basic human needs

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Relatedness
Transcendence
Rootedness
Sense of identity
Frame of orientation

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