Fromm: Humanistic Psychoanalysis

Question 1

5 existential basic needs of human existence

Answer 1

Relatedness
Transcendence
Rootedness
Sense of Identity
Frame of Orientation

Question 2

it forces them to attempt to solve basic insoluble dichotomies.

Answer 2

Existential Dichotomies

Question 3

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 3

Conformity

Question 4

have emerged during the evolution of human culture, growing out of their attempts to find an answer to their existence and to avoid becoming insane.

Answer 4

Human/Existential Needs

Question 5

contributes to feelings of loneliness, isolation, and homelessness.

Answer 5

Self-awareness

Question 6

As people gained more and more economic and political freedom, they came to feel increasingly more isolated.

Answer 6

Burden of freedom

Question 7

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

Answer 7

masochism

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Sense of identity

Question 9

being split of from nature, humans need a road map, humans would be “confused and unable to act purposefully and consistently”.

Answer 9

Frame of orientation

Question 10

Authoritarianism can manifest in two forms:

Answer 10

Masochism
Sadism

Question 11

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.

Answer 11

Receptive Characters

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Basic Anxiety

Question 13

four nonproductive orientations:

Answer 13

Receiving things passively (Receptive)
Exploiting, or taking things through force (Exploitative)
Hoarding Objects (Hoarding)
Marketing or Exchanging things (Marketing)

Question 14

we can transcend life by destroying it and thus rising above our slain victims

Answer 14

Destruction

Question 15

the drive for union with another person or other persons.

Answer 15

Relatedness

Question 16

rooted in the feelings of aloneness, isolation, and powerlessness.

Answer 16

Destructiveness

Question 17

Character Orientations characterized into two ways:

Answer 17

Nonproductive
Productive

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Sadism

Question 19

unhealthy personalities are marked by problems in these three areas, especially failure to love productively.

Answer 19

Personality Disorders

Question 20

individuals possess all three personality disorders

Answer 20

Syndrome of Decay

Question 21

It blocks growth integrity and psychological health

Answer 21

Symbiosis

Question 22

A person can submit to another, to group, or to an institution in order to become one with the world.

Answer 22

Submission

Question 23

they have acquired the facility to reason

Answer 23

Human Dilemma

Question 24

four qualities of love

Answer 24

Care, Responsibility, Respect, and Knowledge

Question 25

the only route by which a person can become with the world, achieve individuality and integrity.

Answer 25

Love

Question 26

a passionate love of life and all that is alive.

Answer 26

Biophilia

Question 27

a spontaneous and full expression of both their rational and their emotional potentialities.

Answer 27

Positive freedom

Question 28

characterized by the four qualities of love.

Answer 28

Productive love

Question 29

defined as the urge to rise above a passive and accidental existence and into "the realm of purposefulness and freedom".

Answer 29

Transcendence

Question 30

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 acquire the strength which the individual is lacking.

Answer 30

Authoritarianism

Question 31

What is the two ways to transcend?

Answer 31

Destruction Creation

Question 32

looks at people from a historical and cultural perspective rather than a strictly psychological one.

Answer 32

Humanistic Psychoanalysis

Question 33

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

Answer 33

Fixation

Question 34

Single productive orientation has three dimensions:

Answer 34

working, loving, and reasoning.

Question 35

Three Basic ways to relate the world:

Answer 35

Submission Power Love

Question 36

see themselves as commodities, with their personal value dependent on their exchange value, that is, their ability to sell themselves.

Answer 36

Marketing Characters

Question 37

a person's relatively permanent way of relating to people and things.

Answer 37

Character Orientations

Question 38

are the driving forces in normal people, both individually and collectively. (people attempt to flee from freedom)

Answer 38

Mechanism of Escape

Question 39

Narcissism impedes the perception of reality so that everything belonging to a narcissistic person is highly valued and everything belonging to another is devalued.

Answer 39

Malignant Narcissism

Question 40

only humans can kill for reason other than survival

Answer 40

Malignant Aggression

Question 41

An extreme dependence on the mother or mother surrogate.

Answer 41

Incestuous symbiosis

Question 42

people are weaned from the orbit of their mother and became fully; they actively and creatively relate to the world and become whole or integrated.

Answer 42

Independence from Mother

Question 43

Domineering people, power seekers welcome submissive partners.

Answer 43

Domination

Question 44

the interpersonal aspects of a therapeutic encounter

Answer 44

Humanistic Psychoanalysis

Question 45

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

Answer 45

Exploitative Characters

Question 46

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

Answer 46

Rootedness

Question 47

three severe personality disorders:

Answer 47

Necrophilia Malignant Narcissism Incestuous symbiosis

Question 48

Only humans are aware of themselves as creators.

Answer 48

Creation

Question 49

seek to save that which they have already obtained.

Answer 49

Hoarding Characters

Question 50

sense to denote any attraction to death.

Answer 50

Necrophilia

Question 51

fail to move people closer to positive freedom and self realization.

Answer 51

Nonproductive Orientation

Question 52

people work toward positive freedom and a continuing realization of their potential, they are the most healthy of all character types.

Answer 52

Productive Orientation