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Fromm: Humanistic Psychoanalysis Flashcards

Erich Fromm basic thesis is that modern-day people have been torn away from their prehistoric union with nature and also with one another, yet they have the power of reasoning, foresight, and imagination.

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5 existential basic needs of human existence

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Relatedness
Transcendence
Rootedness
Sense of Identity
Frame of Orientation

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it forces them to attempt to solve basic insoluble dichotomies.

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Existential Dichotomies

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

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Conformity

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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.

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Human/Existential Needs

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contributes to feelings of loneliness, isolation, and homelessness.

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Self-awareness

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

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Burden of freedom

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

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masochism

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

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Sense of identity

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

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Frame of orientation

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Authoritarianism can manifest in two forms:

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Masochism
Sadism

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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, and material possessions.

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Receptive Characters

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

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Basic Anxiety

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four nonproductive orientations:

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

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

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Destruction

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the drive for union with another person or other persons.

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Relatedness

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

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Destructiveness

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Character Orientations characterized into two ways:

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Nonproductive
Productive

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

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Sadism

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

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Personality Disorders

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individuals possess all three personality disorders

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Syndrome of Decay

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It blocks growth integrity and psychological health

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Symbiosis

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

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Submission

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they have acquired the facility to reason

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Human Dilemma

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four qualities of love

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Care, Responsibility, Respect, and Knowledge

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

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Love

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a passionate love of life and all that is alive.

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Biophilia

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

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Positive freedom

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characterized by the four qualities of love.

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Productive love

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

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Transcendence

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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.

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Authoritarianism

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What is the two ways to transcend?

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Destruction
Creation

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

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Humanistic Psychoanalysis

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

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Fixation

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Single productive orientation has three dimensions:

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working, loving, and reasoning.

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Three Basic ways to relate the world:

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Submission
Power
Love

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

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Marketing Characters

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

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Character Orientations

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

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Mechanism of Escape

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

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Malignant Narcissism

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only humans can kill for reason other than survival

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Malignant Aggression

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An extreme dependence on the mother or mother surrogate.

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Incestuous symbiosis

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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.

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Independence from Mother

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Domineering people, power seekers welcome submissive partners.

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Domination

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the interpersonal aspects of a therapeutic encounter

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Humanistic Psychoanalysis

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

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Exploitative Characters

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

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Rootedness

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three severe personality disorders:

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Necrophilia
Malignant Narcissism
Incestuous symbiosis

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Only humans are aware of themselves as creators.

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Creation

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seek to save that which they have already obtained.

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Hoarding Characters

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sense to denote any attraction to death.

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Necrophilia

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

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Nonproductive Orientation

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

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Productive Orientation

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