Erich Fromm Warning: include(/includes/insert0.txt): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/bmserver/public_html/personality/fromm.php on line 11 Warning: include(): Failed opening '/includes/insert0.txt' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/bmserver/public_html/personality/fromm.php on line 11 <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="mind-brain, personality theory, personality theories, personal, mind, brain, neuroscience, consciousness, poetry, music, sound, personal pics"> <META NAME="description" CONTENT="a site by Shawn Mikula"> Warning: include(/includes/insert1.txt): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/bmserver/public_html/personality/fromm.php on line 24 Warning: include(): Failed opening '/includes/insert1.txt' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/bmserver/public_html/personality/fromm.php on line 24 Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980) Warning: include(/includes/insert2.txt): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/bmserver/public_html/personality/fromm.php on line 34 Warning: include(): Failed opening '/includes/insert2.txt' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/bmserver/public_html/personality/fromm.php on line 34 Warning: include(/includes/insert_personality.txt): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/bmserver/public_html/personality/fromm.php on line 37 Warning: include(): Failed opening '/includes/insert_personality.txt' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/bmserver/public_html/personality/fromm.php on line 37  <center> <hr width=50%><big> Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980) </big> <hr width=50%> </center> Erich Fromm was born in 1900 in Frankfurt, Germany. he received his PhD from Heidelberg in 1922 and began a career as a psychotherapist. He moved to the U.S. in 1934 and settled in New York City. Here, he met many other great refugee thinkers, including Karen Horney, with whom he had an affair. Later in life, he moved to Mexico City, where he did considerable research into the relationship between economic class and personality types. <img src="fromm.jpg" HSPACE=10 VSPACE=10 BORDER=1 height=95 width=117 align=LEFT> <hr WIDTH="100%"> <center>Theory</center> Fromm was an existentialist whose theory includes a peculiar blend of Freud (unconscious, biological drives, repression) and Marx (people are determined by their socioeconomic class). He added to this combination of two deterministic systems the notion of freedom, which he defined as a transcendence of the determinations that Freud and Marx described. Fromm would go on to make this freedom the central feature of human nature. According to Fromm, freedom is difficult to maintain, and many people opt to fall back into a deterministic mode of living. Such deterministic modes of living are encouraged by authoritarianism, destructiveness, and automaton conformity. However, since humanity's "true nature" is freedom, any of these escapes into deterministic modes of living and away from freedom necessarily involves alienation of ourselves (from our true nature). from freedom alienates us from ourselves. Here's what Fromm had to say: <ul>Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision making which replace the principles of instincts. he has to have a frame of orientation which permits him to organize a consistent picture of the world as a condition for consistent actions. He has to fight not only against the dangers of dying, starving, and being hurt, but also against another anger which is specifically human: that of becoming insane. In other words, he has to protect himself not only against the danger of losing his life but also against the danger of losing his mind. (Fromm, 1968, p. 61)</ul> <center><table BORDER COLS=4 WIDTH="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" > <tr> <td>Orientation</td> <td>Society</td> <td>Family</td> <td>Escape from Freedom</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Receptive</td> <td>Peasant society</td> <td>Symbiotic (passive)</td> <td>Authoritarian (masochistic)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Exploitative</td> <td>Aristocratic society</td> <td>Symbiotic (active)</td> <td>Authoritarian (sadistic)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Hoarding</td> <td>Bourgeois society</td> <td>Withdrawing (puritanical)</td> <td>Perfectionist to destructive</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Marketing</td> <td>Modern society</td> <td>Withdrawing (infantile)</td> <td>Automaton conformist</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Productive</td> <td>Humanistic communitarian socialism</td> <td>Loving and reasoning</td> <td>Freedom and responsibility acknowledged and accepted</td> </tr> </table></center> Warning: include(/includes/insert3.txt): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/bmserver/public_html/personality/fromm.php on line 166 Warning: include(): Failed opening '/includes/insert3.txt' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/bmserver/public_html/personality/fromm.php on line 166 </BODY></HTML>

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Erich Fromm Warning: include(/includes/insert0.txt): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/bmserver/public_html/personality/fromm.php on line 11 Warning: include(): Failed opening '/includes/insert0.txt' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/bmserver/public_html/personality/fromm.php on line 11 <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="mind-brain, personality theory, personality theories, personal, mind, brain, neuroscience, consciousness, poetry, music, sound, personal pics"> <META NAME="description" CONTENT="a site by Shawn Mikula"> Warning: include(/includes/insert1.txt): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/bmserver/public_html/personality/fromm.php on line 24 Warning: include(): Failed opening '/includes/insert1.txt' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/bmserver/public_html/personality/fromm.php on line 24 Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980) Warning: include(/includes/insert2.txt): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/bmserver/public_html/personality/fromm.php on line 34 Warning: include(): Failed opening '/includes/insert2.txt' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/bmserver/public_html/personality/fromm.php on line 34 Warning: include(/includes/insert_personality.txt): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/bmserver/public_html/personality/fromm.php on line 37 Warning: include(): Failed opening '/includes/insert_personality.txt' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/bmserver/public_html/personality/fromm.php on line 37  <center> <hr width=50%><big> Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980) </big> <hr width=50%> </center> Erich Fromm was born in 1900 in Frankfurt, Germany. he received his PhD from Heidelberg in 1922 and began a career as a psychotherapist. He moved to the U.S. in 1934 and settled in New York City. Here, he met many other great refugee thinkers, including Karen Horney, with whom he had an affair. Later in life, he moved to Mexico City, where he did considerable research into the relationship between economic class and personality types. <img src="fromm.jpg" HSPACE=10 VSPACE=10 BORDER=1 height=95 width=117 align=LEFT> <hr WIDTH="100%"> <center>Theory</center> Fromm was an existentialist whose theory includes a peculiar blend of Freud (unconscious, biological drives, repression) and Marx (people are determined by their socioeconomic class). He added to this combination of two deterministic systems the notion of freedom, which he defined as a transcendence of the determinations that Freud and Marx described. Fromm would go on to make this freedom the central feature of human nature. According to Fromm, freedom is difficult to maintain, and many people opt to fall back into a deterministic mode of living. Such deterministic modes of living are encouraged by authoritarianism, destructiveness, and automaton conformity. However, since humanity's "true nature" is freedom, any of these escapes into deterministic modes of living and away from freedom necessarily involves alienation of ourselves (from our true nature). from freedom alienates us from ourselves. Here's what Fromm had to say: <ul>Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision making which replace the principles of instincts. he has to have a frame of orientation which permits him to organize a consistent picture of the world as a condition for consistent actions. He has to fight not only against the dangers of dying, starving, and being hurt, but also against another anger which is specifically human: that of becoming insane. In other words, he has to protect himself not only against the danger of losing his life but also against the danger of losing his mind. (Fromm, 1968, p. 61)</ul> <center><table BORDER COLS=4 WIDTH="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" > <tr> <td>Orientation</td> <td>Society</td> <td>Family</td> <td>Escape from Freedom</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Receptive</td> <td>Peasant society</td> <td>Symbiotic (passive)</td> <td>Authoritarian (masochistic)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Exploitative</td> <td>Aristocratic society</td> <td>Symbiotic (active)</td> <td>Authoritarian (sadistic)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Hoarding</td> <td>Bourgeois society</td> <td>Withdrawing (puritanical)</td> <td>Perfectionist to destructive</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Marketing</td> <td>Modern society</td> <td>Withdrawing (infantile)</td> <td>Automaton conformist</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Productive</td> <td>Humanistic communitarian socialism</td> <td>Loving and reasoning</td> <td>Freedom and responsibility acknowledged and accepted</td> </tr> </table></center> Warning: include(/includes/insert3.txt): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/bmserver/public_html/personality/fromm.php on line 166 Warning: include(): Failed opening '/includes/insert3.txt' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/bmserver/public_html/personality/fromm.php on line 166 </BODY></HTML>