PSY 3303 Study Guide - Final Guide: Eric Fromm, Social Movement, Hoarders
2 Apr 2018
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He wanted to understand the laws that governed the life of the individual and the laws of society. He uses 3 separate points to understand this: freud"s biological (instinctual) determinism: freud pictured humans as determined primarily by their biological instincts and the forces of repression by their own egos. So, fomm adopted freud"s" view, that most of what we know, most of what is real is not conscious, but that most of what is conscious is not real. Ex: todays" present day, we feel insignificant in the face of powerful corporations, massive bureaucracies and trans-human technologies. So, fromm adopted marx"s thoughts that humans are not free, and cannot be free, so long as they accept uncritically external control by social customs and institutions. Liberal freedom is when we have freedom in this society, ex: women rights, freedom to go to school, speech, we may have this sort of freedom and other society might now vs. existential freedom.
