Theories of Personality, 5/e

Psychodynamic Theories

Fromm: Humanistic Psychoanalysis

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1		1. Fromm said that human, or _______________________, needs grow out of attempts to find meaning in life.


2		2. Compared to Freud, Fromm put more emphasis on _________________ influences on personality.


3		3. The _______________________ refers to Fromm’s notion that humans have acquired the ability to reason yet lack strong animal instincts.


4		4. To Fromm, _____________________ needs represent our attempts to avoid insanity.


5		5. A sense of _________________ refers to our capacity to be aware of ourselves as a separate entity.


6		6. ____________________ is the need to feel at home again in the world.


7		7. Fromm said that people have felt more _______________________ as they have gained more economic and political freedom.


8		8. The human need of ____________________ is the drive for union with another person.


9		9. Necrophilia is the opposite of _________________________.


10		10. To Fromm, __________________ is the most common mechanism of escape in American society.


11		11. Fromm believed that ________________________ is the successful solution to the human dilemma.


12		12. Fromm called ______________________ the “freaks of the universe.”


13		13. To Fromm, the ____________________ orientation is a result of modern commerce.


14		14. ________________________ was Fromm’s approach to sketching a psychological portrait of a prominent person.


15		15. Fromm believed that _________________________ was the epitome of a person suffering from the syndrome of decay.

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