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
