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    Erich Fromm (Born March 23‚ 1900‚ Frankfurt am Main‚ Germany—died March 18‚ 1980‚ Muralto‚ Switzerland) is well known not only as a psychoanalyst and social psychologist but also as an important representative of 20th century humanism. Erich Fromm’s humanistic psychoanalysis looks at people from the perspective of psychology‚ history‚ and anthropology. Influenced by Freud and Horney‚ Fromm developed a more culturally oriented theory than Freud and a much broader theory than Horney. Fromm believed

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    10/28/13 Self-Centered Madness “Selfish persons are incapable of loving others‚ but they are not capable of loving themselves either.”- Erich Fromm. Self-centered people are all this world‚ there running like ants thinking there better than you. Which symptoms show in people well there are several such as those who think about themselves‚ worry about materialistic items‚ and they threat others badly because they only see them as objects rather than people? Narcissism: Having excessive pride in

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    Is Disobedience a Psychological and Moral Problem? In his essay “Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem‚” Erich Fromm asks a question that he considers very important‚ “Why is man so prone to obey and why is it so difficult for him to disobey?” (405) He claims that disobedience is the right thing to do but obedience without questioning is bad. He claims that the history of human beings started because of acts of disobedience. He further claims that human beings continue to progress

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    into accepts and rejects. If a person does something in his society that is unusual or not wanted‚ they are called insane. According to Erich Fromm‚ in his book “The Sane Society”‚ most people share a certain set of values and ideologies and that sharing “confirms” the validity and sanity of those values and ideologies. It is called consensual validation. Fromm also argues that entire societies are “lacking in sanity”. He proves this by saying

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    The Essential Existence of Obedience and Liberty Nadia Boulanger the famous French Composer said‚ “A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.” Through this statement we learn that obedience must be coupled with liberty in order to make something or someone great. This will not be an essay supporting disobedience but will in fact show how the greatest obedience is chosen; not forced upon an individual but the joining of obedience and liberty. In the article “The Perils

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    Marielle Devera English 1 Professor Guillen 20 April 2013 (Revised) Essay Exam #1: Fromm’s – Becoming an individual Erich Fromm a psychoanalyst and social critic who stated we should be disobedient for an individual can create a whole new beginning to the society. Meaning‚ becoming obedient can change a certain man’s life rejecting from higher class and creating his own. But as one man invents the whole world would want it. Releasing a new introduction could lead to “commodity hunger” and

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    obedience to authority is always going to result in disaster. then comes the argument itself- then add two outside sources then conclusion then mla then rough draft will be completed. --------- stanley milgrom? doris lessing or erich fromm can be used as other sources. when introducing milgrom-you need more than a basic introduction-use first‚ last name and his credentials-but because of the experiment and it’s importance to the quotations‚ you need to take a couple of sentences

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    Abstract To understand Fromm’s mechanisms of escape—authoritarianism‚ destructiveness‚ and automaton conformity—one must obtain an understanding of Fromm basic premise for humanity and society which is overall positive. Reviewing the mechanisms of escape can assist one in understanding how an individual can be ruled by another‚ take one’s own life‚ or become lost in society. Fromm’s book‚ Escape from Freedom‚ can be used to teach individuals and society‚ as a whole‚ how to better understand one

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    man are? Indeed‚ one can understand the concept of socialism only if one understands Marx’s distinction between the true needs of man‚ and the synthetic‚ artificially produced needs of man http://www.marxists.org/archive/fromm/works/1961/man/ch06.htm Article: Erich Fromm 1961 Title: Marx’s Concept of Man First published: Publisher: Frederick Ungar Publishing: New York.‚ 1961. pp. 1 – 85 Transcribed: by Sam

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    meaning and essence. This has been true of me. Before I encountered this phenomenology of love‚ I already had experiences of loving other people – my family‚ my friends‚ and girlfriends past and present. However‚ I was belonged to the people whom Erich Fromm described as believing in the popular notion of love. I emphasized the characteristics of the people I loved‚ why I needed them‚ and I mostly demanded that they love me more than I demanded myself to love them. I even viewed love in the “scientistic”

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