Humanistic Psychoanalysis (Fromm) Flashcards
- Humanity’s separation from the natural world has
produced feelings of loneliness and isolation, a
condition
basic anxiety
looks at people from many perspectives, including psychology, history, and anthropology
humanistic psychoanalysis
have no power instincts to
adapt to a changing world; instead the have
acquired the facility to reason
Human Dilemma
our human dilemma cannot
be solved by satisfying our animal needs
- Can move people toward a reunion with natural
world
- Mentally healthy individual find answers to their
existence.
Existential/Human Needs
the drive for union with another
person or another person
Relatedness
a person can submit to
another, to a group, or to an institution in
order to become one with world.
Symbiotic relationship
Submission
Elements of Love (4)
I. Care
II. Responsibility
III. Respect
IV. Knowledge
the love and care for the
helpless
Motherly Love
to kill for reason
other than survival
Malignant Aggression
capacity to be aware of
ourselves as a separate entity.
Sense of Identity
escape from freedom
and positive freedom
Burden of Freedom
- tendency to “fuse one’s self
with somebody or something outside of oneself
Authoritarianism
the individual attempts to
overcome life’s threatening situations by
destroying them
Destructiveness
the individual simply
has acceptance of all of the contradictions of life.
Automaton Conformity
love and work are the
twin components of positive freedom.
Positive Freedom