Fromm: Humanistic Psychoanalysis Flashcards
Assumes that humanity’s separation from the natural world has produced feelings of loneliness and isolation.
Humanistic psychoanalysis
People have no powerful instincts to adapt to a changing world; instead, they have acquired the facility to reason.
Human dilemma
The drive for union with another person or other persons
Relatedness
The urge to rise above a passive and accidental existence and into “the realm of purposefulness and freedom”
Transcendence
To kill for reasons other than survival
Malignant aggression
The need to establish roots or to feel at home again in the world
Rootedness
A tenacious reluctance to move beyond the protective security provided by one’s mother.
Fixation
The capacity to be aware of ourselves as a separate entity.
Sense of identity
Being split off from the nature, humans need a road map to make their way through the world.
Frame of orientation
The feeling of being alone in the world.
Basic anxiety
3 primary mechanisms of escape.
Authoritarianism
Destructiveness
Conformity
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.
Authoritarianism
Results from basic feelings of powerlessness, weakness, and inferiority and is aimed at joining the self to a more powerful person or instuition.
Masochism
Aimed at reducing basic anxiety through achieving unity with another person or other persons.
Sadism
Is rooted in the feelings of aloneness, isolation, and powerlessness; seeks to do away with other people.
Destructiveness
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.
Conformity
A spontaneous and full expression of both people’s rational and their emotionl potentialities.
Positive freedom
A person’s relatively permanent way of relating to people and things.
Character orientation
The relatively permanent system of all noninstinctual stiving through which a man relates himself to the human and natural world.
Character
Acquiring and using things.
Assimilation
Relating to self and others.
Socialization
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.
Receptive characters
They believe that the source of all good is outside themselves but they aggressively take what they desire rather than passively receive it.
Exploitative characters
They seek to save that which they already have already obtained.
Hoarding characters
An outgrowth of modern commerce in which trade is no longer personal but carried out by large, faceless corporations.
Marketing character
A passionate love of life and all that is alive.
Biophilia
3 severe personality disorders.
Necrophilia
Malignant narcissism
Incestuous symiosis
A more generalized sense to denote any attraction to death.
Necrophilia
An obssessive attention to one’s health.
Hypochondriasis
An interest of a person in their own body.
Narcissism
A preoccupation with guilt about previous transgressions.
Moral hypochondriasis
An extreme depedence on the mother or mother surrogate.
Incestuous symbiosis
Fromm’s own evolved system of therapy.
Humanistic psychoanalysis
