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1
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The three components of Fromm’s threefold blend

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  1. Freud’s biological determinism
  2. Marx’s sociometric determinism
  3. paradoxical nature of freedom
2
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Medieval reality of freedom

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Freedom anchored with prescribed roles of society

3
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Renassance freedom

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emergence of personal rationality and responsibility

4
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Industrial and captilistic freedom

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economic and social freedom

5
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Social revolution freedom

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individual rights and freedoms

6
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What kind of freedom do we have today?

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Self-contained individualism

7
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In the modern world, what equates social freedom?

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individualism

8
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What is consequence of economic and political freedom

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Increased isolation from others and yourself

9
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What marks existence in a modern society?

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independence

10
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What are the three escapes from existential freedom?

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Authoritarianism, destructiveness, automation conformity

11
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What is authoritariansim?

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To submit to, or become, control

12
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What is the extreme form of submitting to control?

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masochism

13
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What is the extreme form of becoming the control

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sadism

14
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Define destructiveness

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aim is to destroy that which causes powerlessness: failure to do so results in destructiveness

15
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What is automation conformity

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Ceasing to be oneself, mimicking society to offset feelings of lonliness

16
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What are the 6 essential needs?

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  1. Need for rootedness
  2. Need for relatedness
  3. Need for sense of identity
  4. Need for transcendence, a sense of effectiveness
  5. Need for object of devotion and frame of orientation
  6. Need for excitation and stimulation
17
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Define social unconscious

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socially conditioned filter that establishes schemas by which the individual is expected to order the world

18
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What was Eric Fromm known for?

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Psychoanalytic and humanistic social psychology

19
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What is destructiveness the outcome of?

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An unfulfilled life

20
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What is created to compensate for a loss of spontanaety

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pseudoself