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Psychodynamic Theories
Fromm: Humanistic Psychoanalysis
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1. Fromm said that human, or _______________________, needs grow out of attempts to find meaning in life.
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2. Compared to Freud, Fromm put more emphasis on _________________ influences on personality.
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3. The _______________________ refers to Fromm’s notion that humans have acquired the ability to reason yet lack strong animal instincts.
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4. To Fromm, _____________________ needs represent our attempts to avoid insanity.
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5. A sense of _________________ refers to our capacity to be aware of ourselves as a separate entity.
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6. ____________________ is the need to feel at home again in the world.
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7. Fromm said that people have felt more _______________________ as they have gained more economic and political freedom.
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8. The human need of ____________________ is the drive for union with another person.
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9. Necrophilia is the opposite of _________________________.
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10. To Fromm, __________________ is the most common mechanism of escape in American society.
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11. Fromm believed that ________________________ is the successful solution to the human dilemma.
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12. Fromm called ______________________ the “freaks of the universe.”
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13. To Fromm, the ____________________ orientation is a result of modern commerce.
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14. ________________________ was Fromm’s approach to sketching a psychological portrait of a prominent person.
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15. Fromm believed that _________________________ was the epitome of a person suffering from the syndrome of decay.