After reading Chapter 7, you should be able to: - List Fromm's basic assumptions about personality.
- Describe the existential (human) needs identified by Fromm.
- Discuss Fromm's notion of the burden of freedom and how people attempt to struggle with that burden.
- Explain what Fromm means by positive freedom.
- Describe Fromm's nonproductive character orientations.
- Discuss Fromm's views on the productive orientation.
- List and describe Fromm's three severe personality disorders.
- Describe Fromm's research methods.
- Discuss Fromm's psychohistorical study of Hitler.
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