Fromm: Humanistic Psychoanalysis

Question 1

Assumes that humanity’s separation from the natural world has produced feelings of loneliness and isolation.

Answer 1

Humanistic psychoanalysis

Question 2

People have no powerful instincts to adapt to a changing world; instead, they have acquired the facility to reason.

Answer 2

Human dilemma

Question 3

The drive for union with another person or other persons

Answer 3

Relatedness

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Transcendence

Question 5

To kill for reasons other than survival

Answer 5

Malignant aggression

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Rootedness

Question 7

A tenacious reluctance to move beyond the protective security provided by one’s mother.

Answer 7

Fixation

Question 8

The capacity to be aware of ourselves as a separate entity.

Answer 8

Sense of identity

Question 9

Being split off from the nature, humans need a road map to make their way through the world.

Answer 9

Frame of orientation

Question 10

The feeling of being alone in the world.

Answer 10

Basic anxiety

Question 11

3 primary mechanisms of escape.

Answer 11

Authoritarianism
Destructiveness
Conformity

Question 12

The 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 acquuire the strength which the individual is lacking.

Answer 12

Authoritarianism

Question 13

Results from basic feelings of powerlessness, weakness, and inferiority and is aimed at joining the self to a more powerful person or instuition.

Answer 13

Masochism

Question 14

Aimed at reducing basic anxiety through achieving unity with another person or other persons.

Answer 14

Sadism

Question 15

Is rooted in the feelings of aloneness, isolation, and powerlessness; seeks to do away with other people.

Answer 15

Destructiveness

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Conformity

Question 17

A spontaneous and full expression of both people’s rational and their emotionl potentialities.

Answer 17

Positive freedom

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Character orientation

Question 19

The relatively permanent system of all noninstinctual stiving through which a man relates himself to the human and natural world.

Answer 19

Character

Question 20

Acquiring and using things.

Answer 20

Assimilation

Question 21

Relating to self and others.

Answer 21

Socialization

Question 22

They 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.

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Receptive characters

Question 23

They believe that the source of all good is outside themselves but they aggressively take what they desire rather than passively receive it.

Answer 23

Exploitative characters

Question 24

They seek to save that which they already have already obtained.

Answer 24

Hoarding characters

Question 25

An outgrowth of modern commerce in which trade is no longer personal but carried out by large, faceless corporations.

Answer 25

Marketing character

Question 26

A passionate love of life and all that is alive.

Answer 26

Biophilia

Question 27

3 severe personality disorders.

Answer 27

Necrophilia
Malignant narcissism
Incestuous symiosis

Question 28

A more generalized sense to denote any attraction to death.

Answer 28

Necrophilia

Question 29

An obssessive attention to one’s health.

Answer 29

Hypochondriasis

Question 30

An interest of a person in their own body.

Answer 30

Narcissism

Question 31

A preoccupation with guilt about previous transgressions.

Answer 31

Moral hypochondriasis

Question 32

An extreme depedence on the mother or mother surrogate.

Answer 32

Incestuous symbiosis

Question 33

Fromm’s own evolved system of therapy.

Answer 33

Humanistic psychoanalysis