ERICH FROMM

"Why do we still choose to act

irrational despite having the
capacity to be rational?"
REASON AND EXISTENTIAL EXISTENTIAL
SELF DICHOTOMIES NEEDS
AWARENESS Life after Death
Distinctive human
Humans are aware
contributes to needs can move
that life is too short.
feelings of people toward a
People are
loneliness isolation reunion with the
ultimately alone, yet
and homelessness natural world
we can't tolerate
isolation.
Drive for union with another
person
Power
Submission and Domination

Symbiotic Relationship -
established when a
submissive person and a
domineering person find
each other.
 "Union with somebody or something
outside oneself under the condition or
retaining the separateness and integrity
of one's own self."
FROMM 1981
Defined as the
urge to rise above
a passive existence.

Destructiveness

Creativeness
The need to establish roots or to
feel at home again in the world.

Fixation - a tenacious,
reluctant to move beyond
the productive security
provided by one's mother
or mother substitute.
Consistent way of looking at
the world.

road map
final goal
Irrational goals
Rational goals
 Basic anxiety- sense of
being alone in the world.
Authoritarianism Conformity
Destructiveness
to acquire compliance with
do away with
strength the standards
other people.
 Positive freedom represents a
successful solution to human dilemma
of being part of the natural world and
yet separate from it.

LOVE + WORK
 NONPRODUCTIVE

HOARDING
seek to save
that which they
have already
obtained.

RECEPTIVE
EXPLOITATIVE
concerned with
aggressively
receiving than
get what they
giving.
desire
 NONPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVE

MARKETING wokring, loving,

" I am as you desire reasoning
me"
NECROPHILIA MALIGNANT INCESTUOUS
NARCISSISM SYMBIOSIS
necrophilia means benign narcissism
extreme dependence
malignant
love of death. on the mother or
narcissism - delay or
sexual perversion mother surrogate
prevent the
hate humanity. incestuous
perception of reality.
diseases and symbiotic
hypochondriasis
decay relationship
moral
hypochondriasis
Necrophilia BIOPHILIA
Malignant Narcissism LOVE
Incestuous Symbiosis POSITIVE FREEDOM
"Establish a union with patients so
that they can become reunited
with the world."
FROMM
 REPORTER
ALFORTE, JULIA B.
BS PSYCHOLOGY 2B