PSYC 80A Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Daimonic, Existential Therapy, Rollo May
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Erich fromm"s necrophilous character type: character type - loved death more than life. He had a passionate attraction to all that is dead, decayed, putrid, and sickly. He also had a passion to tear about living structure. It is controlled by bottled up anger, rage. This personality type seems calm on the outside but is raging and destructive on the inside. It"s a story about a guy named gary leonridgeway. He was appeared normal , was married, but doing horri c crazy things. He had a theory that children move towards evil to defend themselves from adults or children who do bad things to them and humiliate them. https://www. evernote. com/home. action#n=129bccd5-b440-4ab0-8d2d-4a9e9d67f515&ses=4&sh=2&sds=2& Lecture 13 psych and religion: evil | evernote web. They erect a psychological fortress around themselves; they learn to do evil to keep evil away. Malevolent: leading narcissist is cold, inter-personal exploitive, intelligent, always clever, highly willful, highly energetic, unable to feel others" pain/de cient in empathy.
