PSY 3303 Study Guide - Final Guide: Eric Fromm, Karen Horney, Empathy
20 Apr 2017
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Religious family (later in life saw himself as an atheistic mystic) Two powerful events in childhood: death of a young woman, wwi. Taken by freudian psychoanalysis and marxist social theory, as well as some existential ideas. Completed his ph. d. at 22 and moved to us in 1934. Had a brief romantic relationship with karen horney (14 years his senior) I. e. , freedom to do and to have vs. freedom to be. In the modern western world individualism itself became equated with social (liberal) freedom: however, personal (existential) freedom is experienced as frightful (marked by alienation, distancing and estrangement) Industrialization and capitalism (18th-20th cent. : emergence of economic and social freedom, social movements and revolutions (18th-20th cent. , emergence of individual rights and freedoms, birth of the self-contained individualism (20th cent. ) The capitalistic society fostered both alienation of person to person as well as alienation of each individual from him or herself.
