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Humanistic PsychoanalysisHumanistic PsychoanalysisErich FrommErich FrommPSY103 – Theories of Personality
OverviewOverview
Emphasizes the influence of sociobiological factors, history, economics, and class structure.
Humanity’s separation from the natural world has produced feelings of loneliness & isolation, called Basic Anxiety.
Erich FrommErich FrommBorn in Germany in 1900.Strict upbringing, similar to Karen
HorneyEclectic philosophyCombination of Sigmund Freud
and Karl MarxFirst infatuation / WWIMarried three timesWent to the US in 1934, affair with
Karen Horney
Erich FrommErich Fromm
Went to Mexico towards end of career
Private Psychoanalytic practicePublication of researches and
booksDied in Switzerland in 1980, 5 days
before his 80th birthday.
Influences Influences
1. Teachings of humanistic rabbis2. Karl Marx3. Sigmund Freud4. Zen Buddhism5. Johann Jakob Bachofen
Basic AssumptionsBasic Assumptions
Individual personality can be understood in the light of human history.
Concept of Human Dilemma◦Reasoning facility◦Awareness as isolated beings◦Permits them to survive◦Tendency to solve insoluble
dichotomies
Fundamental DichotomiesFundamental Dichotomies
Life and Death
Complete Self- realization and shortness of life
Separate Individuals and Social Relatedness
Human NeedsHuman Needs
Also known as existential needs◦Relatedness◦Transcendence◦Rootedness◦Sense of Identity◦Frame of Orientation
RelatednessRelatednessDrive for union with
another person or other persons.
SubmissionPowerLove
TranscendenceTranscendence
An urge to rise above a passive and accidental existence and into the realm of purposefulness and freedom.
Malignant Aggression
RootednessRootednessThe need to establish roots To feel at home with the world.Influence of mother’s role
Sense of IdentitySense of IdentityThe capacity to be aware of
ourselves as a separate entity.
Frame of OrientationFrame of OrientationPhilosophy, a consistent way of
thinking.Refers to Goals or destinations
Summary of Human Summary of Human NeedsNeeds
Negative Components
Positive Components
Relatedness Submission / domination
Love
Transcendence
Destructiveness
Creativeness
Rootedness Fixation Wholeness
Sense of Identity
Group conformity
Individuality
Frame of Orientation
Irrational goals
Rational goals
Mechanisms of EscapeMechanisms of Escape
Authoritarianism◦Tendency to fuse with another
person◦Masochism / sadism
Destructiveness◦By destruction, people restore
feelings of power.Conformity
◦Reactive, acts like robots
Positive FreedomPositive FreedomSolution to the human dilemma
Represents overcoming of loneliness, achieving union with the world, & maintain individuality.
Character OrientationsCharacter OrientationsA person’s relatively permanent
way of relating to persons and things.
Character replaces instincts
Assimilation◦Acquisition and use of things
Socialization◦Relating to self and others
Non- Productive Non- Productive OrientationsOrientationsStrategies that fail to move people
closer to positive freedom and self- realization.
Not entirely negative
◦Receptive◦Exploitative◦Hoarding◦Marketing
ReceptiveReceptiveThe only way they can relate to the world
is by receiving things; more concerned with receiving than giving.
Passivity, submissiveness, lack self- confidence
Loyalty, acceptance, trust
ExploitativeExploitativeAggressively take what they
desireEgocentric, conceited, arrogant,
seducingImpulsive, proud, charming, self-
confident.
HoardingHoardingHold everything inside and do not let go
of anything.Rigidity, sterility, obstinacy,
compulsivity, lack of creativityOrderliness, cleanliness, punctuality
MarketingMarketingDependent on the ability to sell themselves.Personal security rests on shaky grounds.No permanent principles or values.Opportunistic and wastefulOpenmindedness & adaptability
The Productive The Productive OrientationOrientationWorking
Loving
Reasoning
Personality DisordersPersonality DisordersPeople who are incapable of love
and uniting with others.
NecrophiliaMalignant NarcissismIncestuous Symbiosis
NecrophiliaNecrophilia
Any attraction to deathHates humanityDestructive behavior is a
manifestation of their basic character
Malignant NarcissismMalignant NarcissismImpedes the perception of reality
so that everything belonging to a narcissistic person is valued and everything belonging to another is devalued.
Incestuous SymbiosisIncestuous SymbiosisExtreme dependence on the
mother or mother surrogate.It may be another person or
object.
ComparisonComparisonSyndrome of Decay
Syndrome of Growth
Necrophilia Biophilia
Narcissism Love
Incestuous Symbiosis
Positive Freedom
PsychotherapyPsychotherapyDream AnalysisInterviewsQuestionnairesProjective TechniquesPsychohistory
ExamplesExamples
Social Character in a Mexican Village◦ Study of social character in an isolated
farming village in Mexico◦ Found evidence of all character orientations
except the marketing oneA Psychohistorical Study of Hitler
◦ Applied the techniques of psychohistory to study Hitler, the conspicuous example of someone with the syndrome of decay
◦ Fromm traces and describes Hitler’s necrophilia, malignant narcissism, and incestuous symbiosis
CritiqueCritique
Fromm’s Theory Is:◦High on Organizing Knowledge◦Low on Guiding Action, Internal Consistency, and Parsimony
◦Very Low on Generating Research and Falsifiability