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
acquiring and using things
(assimilation) and by relating yo self and others
(socialization).
Character Orientation
productive people
work toward positive freedom and a continuing
realization of their potential, they are the most
healthy of all character types.
Productive Orientation-
more generalized sense to denote any attraction
to death
Necrophilia
with this disorder are preoccupied with
themselves, but this concern is not limited to
admiring themselves in a mirror
Malignant Narcissism
Extreme on mother or mother surrogate
- Exaggerated form of mother fixation
Incestuous Symbiosis
Establish a union with patients so that they can
become reunited with the world
- Fromm believed that patients come to therapy
seeking satisfaction of their basic human needs.
Psychotherapy
