CHAPTER 8 FROMM: HUMANISTIC PSYCHOANALYSIS

1) People experience this ________ because they have become separate from nature and yet have
the capacity to be aware of themselves
a. Human dilemma
b. Human history
c. Human needs
d. Human culture

2) Which of the following is not a sadistic tendency according to Fromm?

a. The desire to see others suffer
b. The need to gain power over others
c. The need to exploit and use others
d. The need to accept criticisms from others

3) Fromm argued that humans are the only species that kill for reasons other than survival. This
concept is called
a. Freaks of the universe
b. Human dilemma
c. Malignant aggression
d. Syndrome of decay

4) The drive for union with another person or other persons

a. Rootedness

b. Wholeness

c. Relatedness

d. Creativeness

5) According to Fromm which of the following is not a sadistic tendency?

a. The need to accept criticisms from others

b. The need to gain power over others
c. The need to exploit and use others
d. The desire to see others suffer

6) Fromm defined ______ as “a union with somebody, or something outside oneself under the
condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self".

a. Love
b. Power
 c. Need
d. Goals
7) A passionate love of life and all that is alive. desire to further all life, of people, animals, plants,
ideas, and cultures concerned with growth and development of themselves as well as others.

a. Narcissm
b. Biophilia
c. Hypochondriasis
d. Necrophilia

8) It has a strong attraction to death

a. Narcissm
b. Biophilia
c. Hypochondriasis
d. Necrophilia

9) Obsessive attention to one’s health

a. Narcissm
b. Biophilia
c. Hypochondriasis
d. Necrophilia

10) ________ is an orientation in which all one's interest and passion are directed to one's own person

a. Narcissm
b. Biophilia
c. Hypochondriasis
d. Necrophilia

11) The __________ results from humans being torn from nature yet remaining in the world with the
same physical limitations as other animals.
a. Sense of identity
b. Burden of freedom
c. Basic anxiety
d. Rational goals

12) Which of the following is included in Fromm’s Positive Components of Human Needs?
a. Relatedness
b. Transcendence
c. Wholeness
d. Destructiveness
13) Which of the following is included in Fromm’s Negative Components of Human Needs?
a. Orientation
b. Fixation
c. Domination
d. Rational goals

14) Tendency to give up the independence of one’s own individual self and to fuse one’s self with
somebody or something outside oneself, in order to acquire the strength which the individual is
lacking

a. Conformity
b. Destructiveness
c. Authoritarianism
d. Masochism

15) Which of the following is belong to Productive Orientations

a. Hoarding
b. Marketing
c. Reasoning
d. Exploiting

16) There are ____ primary mechanisms of escape

a. two
b. three
c. four
d. five

17) People can break the cycle of conformity and powerless only by ___________ and
____________.
a. Achieving freedom , positive realization
b. Achieving self-realization , positive freedom
c. Achieving love , freedom
d. Achieving positive qualities , freedom

18) The changes in the human condition lead to feelings of ________, _______, and ________.
a. Self-isolation, realization , destructiveness
b. Isolation, domination , guilt
c. Anxiety, powerlessness , realization
 d. Anxiety, isolation, powerlessness

19) All of the following statements are true Except

a. Fromm believed that humans, unlike other animals, have been “torn away” from their
prehistoric union with nature.
b. The first and most fundamental dichotomy is that between life and death.
c. People experience malignant agression because they have become separate from nature
and yet have the capacity to be aware of themselves as isolated beings.
d. The most basic assumption is that individual personality can be understood only in the
light of human history.

20) Humanistic psychoanalysis assumes that humanity’s separation from the natural world has
produced feelings of _____ and _____, a condition called basic anxiety.
a. Compassionate , redemptive
b. Abandoned , loneliness
c. Existence , individuality
d. Loneliness , isolation