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M2 Week 7: Fromm Flashcards

1
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Rooted in the feelings of aloneness, isolation and powerlessness.

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Destructiveness

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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.

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Authoritarianism

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Results from the basic feelings of powerlessness, weakness and inferiority aimed at joining the self to a more powerful person or institution.

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Masochism

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It enables people to organize the various stimuli that impinge on them.

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Frame of Orientation

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It is a tenacious reluctance to move beyond the protective security provided by one’s mother

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Fixation

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The urge to rise above a passive and accidental existence and into the realm of purposefulness and freedom.

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Transcendence

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What are the elements of Genuine Love?

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  1. Care
  2. Responsibility
  3. Respect
  4. Knowledge
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Capitalism leaves people to:

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  1. Escape from freedom into interpersonal dependencies
  2. To move to self-realization through productive love and work.
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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.

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Existential Dichotomies

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Capitalism leaves people to:

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  1. Escape from freedom into interpersonal dependencies
  2. To move to self-realization through productive love and work.
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What are the 5 important influences of Fromm’s thinking?

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  1. The teachings of humanistic rabbis
  2. The revolutionary spirit of Karl Marx
  3. The revolutionary spirit of Sigmund Freud
  4. The rationality of Zen Buddhism
  5. The writings of Johann Jakob Bachofen on matriarchal societies
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TRUE OR FALSE:
Self-awareness contributes to feelings of loneliness, isolation and homelessness.

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True

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13
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Capacity to be aware of ourselves as a separate entity.

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Sense of Identity

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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.

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conform

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Results in basic anxiety, the feeling of being alone in the world.

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Burden of Freedom

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This is seen in small children. They act according to their basic natures and not according to conventional rules.

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Positive Freedom

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It is the totality of inherited and acquired psychic qualities which are characteristic of one individual and when which make the individual unique.

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Personality

18
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What are the twin components of positive freedom?

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Love and Work

19
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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.

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Receptive

20
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They aggressively take what they desire rather than passively receive it.

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Exploitative

21
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Seek to save that which they have already obtained.

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Hoarding

22
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A passionate love of life and all that is alive.

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Addition BIOPHILIA

23
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Exchanging personalities must see themselves as being in constant demand they make others believe that they are skillful and salable.

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Marketing

24
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Productive activity through work, love and reasoning makes people solve the basic human dilemma.

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Productive Orientation

25
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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.

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Necrophilia/Necrophiliac Personalities

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Impedes the perception of reality so that everything belonging to a narcissistic person is highly values and everything belonging to another is devalued.

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Malignant Narcissism

27
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Pathologic individuals possess all three personality disorders.

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Syndrome of Decay

28
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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.

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Incestuous Symbiosis

29
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It is made up of biophilia, love, and positive growth

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Syndrome of Growth

30
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TRUE OR FALSE:
Erich studied the New Testament with several prominent scholars.

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False; He studied Old Testament

31
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What are the critiques on Fromm’s Theory?

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  • GENERATE RESEARCH - low
  • FALSIFIABLE - low
  • ORGANIZATION - low
  • GUIDE TO ACTION - low
  • INTERNAL CONSISTENCY - low
  • PARSIMONY - low
32
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In 1930, Fromm and others founded the ____ for Psychoanalysis in Frankfurt

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South German Institute

33
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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.

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True

34
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TRUE OR FALSE:
Fromm does not believe in dreams

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False; He believes in those

35
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TRUE OR FALSE:
Fromm’s ideas are more psychological than sociological.

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False; they are more sociological than psychological.

36
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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
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More on DIFFERENCES

37
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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.

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True

38
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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.

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True

39
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It is aimed at reducing basic anxiety through achieving unity with another person or persons.

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Sadism

40
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Refers to a sexual perversion in which a person desires sexual contact with a corpse.

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Love of Death

41
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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.

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True

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