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What do the majority of individuals use to seek to escape the problem of freedom?
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The majority of individuals seek to escape the problem of freedom through automaton conformity. They cease to be themselves and adopt the type of personality proffered by their culture.
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Fromm perceived similarities between his mechanisms of escape and Karen Horney's neurotic trends. What are the differences?
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Fromm perceived similarities between his mechanisms of escape and Karen Horney's neurotic trends. The differences betwqeen them are that Horney's emphasis was on anxiety whereas Fromm's was on isolation.
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Our human condition of freedom gives rise to five basic needs. Name them.
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Our human condition of freedom gives rise to five basic needs:
1) relatedness 2) transcendence 3) rootedness 4) sense of identity 5) a frame of orientation and object of devotion. Later, Fromm added a sixth need, excitement and stimulation. |
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Explain the term womb envy.
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Karen Horney emphasized that many men and boys express jealously over women's ability to bear and nurse children, a phenomenon that has since been clearly seen in ethnographic accounts from many cultures, as well as in clinical settings. Horney termed this phenomenon as womb envy.
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Enrich Fromm identified three common mechanisms of escape from freedom. List them.
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Erich Fromm identified three common form of escape from freedom: authoritarianism, destructiveness, and automaton conformity.
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How does one seek to escape the problem of freedom in authoritarianism?
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In authoritarianism, one seeks to escape the problem of freedom by adhering to a new form of submission or domination. Individuals may permit others to dominate them or seek to dominate and control the behavior of others.
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Where does the root of the tendency come from with regards to authoritarianism?
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The root of the tendency comes from an inability to bear the isolation of being an individual self and an effort to find a solution through symbiosis, the union of one's self with another or with an outside power.
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How does destructiveness seek to resolve the problem?
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Destructiveness seeks to resolve the problem of freedom by the elimination of others and/or the outside world. Fromm believed that signs of destructiveness are pervasive in the world, although it is frequently rationalized or masked as love, duty, conscience, or patriotism.
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What did Horney suggest that the neurotics' lives are governed by?
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Horney suggested that the neurotics' lives are governed by the tyranny if the should. Instead of meeting genuine needs, those individuals create false ones.
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