Lesson 8 Flashcards
Basic thesis is that modern-day people have been torn away from their pre-historic union with nature and also with one another, yet they have the power of reason, foresight, and imagination.
Humanistic
Lack animal instinct and presence of rational thought .
Freaks of universe
Contributes to the feeling of loneliness, isolation, and homelessness.
Self-awareness
To escape from these feelings, people strive to become________ with nature and with their fellow human beings
Reunited
More concerned with characteristics common to?
Culture
What contributed substantially to humanistic views of Fromm?(1)
World War I, extreme nationalist
What contributed substantially to the humanistic views of Fromm?(2)
Suicide of a beautiful artist who killed herself immediately after the death of her father.
What contributed substantially to the humanistic views of Fromm?(3)
His training by talmudic teachers; compassionate, and redemptive tone of the old testament prophets.
This ca be understood only in the light of human history.
Individual Personality
Psychology must be based on an_________________of human existence.
anthropologic-philosophical concept
Human have no powerful instinct to adapt to a changing world instead, they have acquired the facility to reason.
Human Dilemma
Human Dilemma
Facility to reason
It permits people to survive, but on the other, it forces them to attempt to basic insoluble dichotomies known as ?
Existential Dichotomies
Existential Dichotomies (1)
Life and Death
Existential Dichotomies (2)
Humans are able of conceptualizing the goal of complete self-realization but we also are aware that life is too short to reach that goal
Existential Crisis (3)
People are ultimately alone, yet we cannot tolerate isolation
Only this can move people toward a reunion with the natural world or to solve the human dilemma.
Distinctive Human Needs
Drive for union with another person or other persons.
Relatedness
3 basic ways to relate to the world
Submission, Power, Love
Desperate need for relatedness
Symbiotic Relationship
The only route by which a person can become united with the world the same time, achieve individuality and integrity.
Love
The urge to rise above a passive and accidental existence and into “the realm of purposefulness and freedom” (by creating or destroying life)
Transcendence