Human Needs Flashcards
These ______ _______ 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
existential needs
the drive for union with another person or other persons.
relatedness
three basic ways in which a person may relate to the world:
(1) submission, (2) power, and (3) love.
When a submissive person and a domineering person find each other, they frequently establish a ______ ______,
one that is satisfying to both partners.
symbiotic relationship
Fromm believed that _____ is the only route by which a person can become
united with the world and, at the same time, achieve individuality and integrity.
love
defined as a “union with somebody, or something outside oneself under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one’s own self
love
defined as the urge to rise above a passive and accidental existence and into “the realm of purposefulness and freedom”
transcendence,
______ ______: that is, to kill for reasons other than survival.
malignant aggression
a tenacious reluctance to move
beyond the protective security provided by one’s mother.
fixation
the need to establish roots or to feel at
home again in the world
rootedness,
the capacity to be aware of ourselves as a separate entity.
Because we have been torn away from nature, we need
to form a concept of our self, to be able to say, “I am I,” or “I am the subject of my
actions.”
sense of identity
Being split off from nature,
humans need a road map, a frame of orientation, to make their way through the
world.
frame of orientation
