M2 Week 7: Fromm Flashcards
Rooted in the feelings of aloneness, isolation and powerlessness.
Destructiveness
Tendency to give up the independence of one’s own individual self and to fuse oneself with somebody or something outside oneself to acquire the strength which the individual is lacking.
Authoritarianism
Results from the basic feelings of powerlessness, weakness and inferiority aimed at joining the self to a more powerful person or institution.
Masochism
It enables people to organize the various stimuli that impinge on them.
Frame of Orientation
It is a tenacious reluctance to move beyond the protective security provided by one’s mother
Fixation
The urge to rise above a passive and accidental existence and into the realm of purposefulness and freedom.
Transcendence
What are the elements of Genuine Love?
- Care
- Responsibility
- Respect
- Knowledge
Capitalism leaves people to:
- Escape from freedom into interpersonal dependencies
- To move to self-realization through productive love and work.
Life and death; capability to set goals but life is too short to reach that goal, people are ultimately alone yet we cannot tolerate isolation.
Existential Dichotomies
Capitalism leaves people to:
- Escape from freedom into interpersonal dependencies
- To move to self-realization through productive love and work.
What are the 5 important influences of Fromm’s thinking?
- The teachings of humanistic rabbis
- The revolutionary spirit of Karl Marx
- The revolutionary spirit of Sigmund Freud
- The rationality of Zen Buddhism
- The writings of Johann Jakob Bachofen on matriarchal societies
TRUE OR FALSE:
Self-awareness contributes to feelings of loneliness, isolation and homelessness.
True
Capacity to be aware of ourselves as a separate entity.
Sense of Identity
People who ____ try to escape from a sense of aloneness and isolation by giving up their individuality and becoming whatever other people desire them to be.
conform
Results in basic anxiety, the feeling of being alone in the world.
Burden of Freedom
This is seen in small children. They act according to their basic natures and not according to conventional rules.
Positive Freedom
It is the totality of inherited and acquired psychic qualities which are characteristic of one individual and when which make the individual unique.
Personality
What are the twin components of positive freedom?
Love and Work
They feel that the source of all good lies outside themselves and that the only way they can relate to the world is to receive things, including love, knowledge and material possessions.
Receptive
They aggressively take what they desire rather than passively receive it.
Exploitative
Seek to save that which they have already obtained.
Hoarding
A passionate love of life and all that is alive.
Addition BIOPHILIA
Exchanging personalities must see themselves as being in constant demand they make others believe that they are skillful and salable.
Marketing
Productive activity through work, love and reasoning makes people solve the basic human dilemma.
Productive Orientation
These kind of personality hate humanity, they are racists, warmongers and bullies; they love bloodshed, destruction, terror and torture; and they delight in destroying life.
Necrophilia/Necrophiliac Personalities
Impedes the perception of reality so that everything belonging to a narcissistic person is highly values and everything belonging to another is devalued.
Malignant Narcissism
Pathologic individuals possess all three personality disorders.
Syndrome of Decay
These kind of people need woman to care for them, dote on them and admire them, they feel somewhat anxious and depressed when their needs are not fulfilled.
Incestuous Symbiosis
It is made up of biophilia, love, and positive growth
Syndrome of Growth
TRUE OR FALSE:
Erich studied the New Testament with several prominent scholars.
False; He studied Old Testament
What are the critiques on Fromm’s Theory?
- GENERATE RESEARCH - low
- FALSIFIABLE - low
- ORGANIZATION - low
- GUIDE TO ACTION - low
- INTERNAL CONSISTENCY - low
- PARSIMONY - low
In 1930, Fromm and others founded the ____ for Psychoanalysis in Frankfurt
South German Institute
TRUE OR FALSE:
People come to therapy seeking satisfaction of their basic human needs – relatedness, transcendence, rootedness and sense of identity and frame of orientation.
True
TRUE OR FALSE:
Fromm does not believe in dreams
False; He believes in those
TRUE OR FALSE:
Fromm’s ideas are more psychological than sociological.
False; they are more sociological than psychological.
Below are Fromm’s Concept of Humanity except:
- middle position on DETERMINISTIC and FREE CHOICE
- both PESSIMISTIC and OPTIMISTIC
- slightly favored TELEOLOGY VS CAUSALITY
- middle stance on CONSCIOUS VS UNCONSCIOUS
- more SOCIAL INFLUENCE than BIOLOGICAL
- moderate emphasis on SIMILARITIES
- more on DIFFERENCES
More on DIFFERENCES
True or False:
Therapist should not view the patient as an illness or a thing but a person with same human needs that all people possess.
True
TRUE OR FALSE:
The rise of capitalism has contributed to leisure time and personal freedom but has resulted to feelings of anxiety, isolation and powerlessness.
True
It is aimed at reducing basic anxiety through achieving unity with another person or persons.
Sadism
Refers to a sexual perversion in which a person desires sexual contact with a corpse.
Love of Death
TRUE OR FALSE:
Fromm believed that therapist should not be too scientific in understanding the patient but with the attitude of relatedness can a person be truly understood.
True
