Lesson 8 - Erich Fromm

Question 1

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.

Answer 1

Humanistic

Question 2

Lack animal instinct and presence of rational thought .

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Freaks of universe

Question 3

Contributes to the feeling of loneliness, isolation, and homelessness.

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Self-awareness

Question 4

To escape from these feelings, people strive to become________ with nature and with their fellow human beings

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Reunited

Question 5

More concerned with characteristics common to?

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Culture

Question 6

What contributed substantially to humanistic views of Fromm?(1)

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World War I, extreme nationalist

Question 7

What contributed substantially to the humanistic views of Fromm?(2)

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Suicide of a beautiful artist who killed herself immediately after the death of her father.

Question 8

What contributed substantially to the humanistic views of Fromm?(3)

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His training by talmudic teachers; compassionate, and redemptive tone of the old testament prophets.

Question 9

This ca be understood only in the light of human history.

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Individual Personality

Question 10

Psychology must be based on an_________________of human existence.

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anthropologic-philosophical concept

Question 11

Human have no powerful instinct to adapt to a changing world instead, they have acquired the?

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facility to reason

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Question 13

It permits people to survive, but on the other, it forces them to attempt to basic insoluble dichotomies known as ?

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Existential Dichotomies

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Existential Dichotomies (1)

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Life and Death

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Existential Dichotomies (2)

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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

Question 16

Existential Crisis (3)

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People are ultimately alone, yet we cannot tolerate isolation

Question 17

Only this can move people toward a reunion with the natural world or to solve the human dilemma.

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Distinctive Human Needs

Question 18

Drive for union with another person or other persons.

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Relatedness

Question 19

3 basic ways to relate to the world

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Submission, Power, Love

Question 20

Desperate need for relatedness

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Symbiotic Relationship

Question 21

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

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Love

Question 22

The urge to rise above a passive and accidental existence and into “the realm of purposefulness and freedom” (by creating or destroying life)

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Transcendence

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To kill for reason other than survival.

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Malignant aggression

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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 off form nature, humans need a road map

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Frame orientation

Question 26

Make their way through the world and to avoid confusion and inability to act purposefully and consistently

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Goal

Question 27

The feeling of being alone in the world.

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Basic Anxiety

Question 28

People’s attempt to flee from freedom.

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Mechanism of Escape

Question 29

Tendency to give up the independence of one’e own. Individual self and to fuse one’s self with somebody or outside oneself, in order to acquire the strength which the individual is lacking (sadism and masochism)

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Authoritarianism

Question 30

seeks to do away with other people, destructive people eliminate much of the outside world and thus acquire a type of perverted isolation.

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Destructiveness

Question 31

giving up their individuality and becoming whatever other people desire them to be

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Conformity

Question 32

How do people break this cycle of conformity and powerlessness? (1)

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By achieving self-realization or positive freedom

Question 33

How do people break this cycle of conformity and powerlessness? (2)

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Spontaneous and full expression of both rational and their emotional potentialities

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How do people break this cycle of conformity and powerlessness?(3)

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They act accordingly to their basic natures and not according to conventional rules

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Acquiring and using things

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Assimilation

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Relating to self and others

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Socialization

Question 37

relates to the world by receiving things passively

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Receptive

Question 38

relates to the world by taking things through force/aggressively

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Exploitative

Question 39

relates to the world by seeking to save things they already obtained

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Hoarding

Question 40

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

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Marketing

Question 41

Professional orientation has three (3) dimensions:

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Working, loving, and reasoning

Question 42

creative self-expression

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Productive Work

Question 43

characterized by care, responsibility, respect, and knowledge.

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Productive Love

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a passionate love of life and all that is alive

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Biophilia

Question 45

motivated by concerned interest in another person or object.

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Productive Thinking

Question 46

receive things from other people, to take things when appropriate, to preserve things, to exchange things, and to work, love, and think productively.

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Productive People

Question 47

denote any attraction to death, hate humanity; they are racists, warmongers, and bullies; they love bloodshed, destruction, terror, and torture; and they delight in destroying life.

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Necrophilia

Question 48

in its malignant form, narcissism impedes the perception of reality so that everything belonging to a narcissistic person is highly valued and everything belonging to another is devalued (neurotic claims).

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Malignant Narcissism

Question 49

an obsessive attention to one’s health

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Hypochondriasis

Question 50

preoccupation with guilt about previous transgressions

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Moral Hypocondriasis

Question 51

preoccupation with gu extreme dependence on the mother or mother surrogate (mother fixation)

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Incestuous Symbiosis

Question 52

should be built on a personal relationship between therapist and patient

Answer 52

Therapy

Question 53

to establish union with patients so that they can become reunited with the world

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Goal

Question 54

Causality vs Teleology

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Teleology

Question 55

Biological VS Social factors

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Social Factors

Question 56

uniqueness versus similarities in people

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similarities