Comprehensive Paper Erich Fromm
Comprehensive Paper in Theories of Personality about
“Humanistic Psychoanalysis”
By: Erich Fromm
Submitted to:
(Professor)
In Partial fulfillment for the requirements in
Psych 105 (Theories of Personality)
Submitted by:
(NAME)
BS Psychology 2
July 18, 2013
BIOGRAPHY
Erich Fromm was born on March 23, 1900, at Frankfurt Germany, the only child of Orthodox Jewish parents. He referred himself as an “atheistic mystic” although he did not formally practice religion. He acknowledged that his parents were probably neurotic and himself as an “unbearable neurotic child.” He received Ph. D. in 1922 in the University of Heidelberg. He was one of the early lay analysts; he had no formal medical training. Fromm’s retreat from Freudism may have begun during the writing of his highly successful book, escape from freedom published in 1941. Fromm’s socialist inclinations may have begun in childhood when he talked politics with a socialist. He suggested a name humanistic Communitarian Socialism for perfect society.He suggested a name Humanistic Communitarian Socialism for perfect society. Co-founder of SANE (the organization for a sane nuclear policy). He was married three times and one of it is Karen Horney. He died in the Swiss town of Muralto on March 18, 1980 because of heart attack.
HUMANISTIC PSYCHOANALYSIS
Assumes that humanity’s separation from the natural world has produced feelings of loneliness and isolation, a condition called basic anxiety. He looks at people from a historical and cultural perspective rather than a strictly psychological one. It is more concerned with those characteristics common to a culture. There are two modes that are competing for the spirit of humanity. The having mode relies on the possessions that a person has. It is the source of the lust for power and leads to isolation and fear. The being mode, which depends solely on the fact of existence, is the source of productive love and activity and leads to solidarity and
“Humanistic Psychoanalysis”
By: Erich Fromm
Submitted to:
(Professor)
In Partial fulfillment for the requirements in
Psych 105 (Theories of Personality)
Submitted by:
(NAME)
BS Psychology 2
July 18, 2013
BIOGRAPHY
Erich Fromm was born on March 23, 1900, at Frankfurt Germany, the only child of Orthodox Jewish parents. He referred himself as an “atheistic mystic” although he did not formally practice religion. He acknowledged that his parents were probably neurotic and himself as an “unbearable neurotic child.” He received Ph. D. in 1922 in the University of Heidelberg. He was one of the early lay analysts; he had no formal medical training. Fromm’s retreat from Freudism may have begun during the writing of his highly successful book, escape from freedom published in 1941. Fromm’s socialist inclinations may have begun in childhood when he talked politics with a socialist. He suggested a name humanistic Communitarian Socialism for perfect society.He suggested a name Humanistic Communitarian Socialism for perfect society. Co-founder of SANE (the organization for a sane nuclear policy). He was married three times and one of it is Karen Horney. He died in the Swiss town of Muralto on March 18, 1980 because of heart attack.
HUMANISTIC PSYCHOANALYSIS
Assumes that humanity’s separation from the natural world has produced feelings of loneliness and isolation, a condition called basic anxiety. He looks at people from a historical and cultural perspective rather than a strictly psychological one. It is more concerned with those characteristics common to a culture. There are two modes that are competing for the spirit of humanity. The having mode relies on the possessions that a person has. It is the source of the lust for power and leads to isolation and fear. The being mode, which depends solely on the fact of existence, is the source of productive love and activity and leads to solidarity and
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