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1
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What is the pathology of normalcy

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The idea that trying to be just like everybody else is its own form of sickness. The shifting of individuals to accommodate the pathological needs of society.

2
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Define cultural neurosis

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Societies lack of adjustment to the needs of its members

3
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What are the four pathological character types

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  1. Receptive orientation
  2. Hoarding
  3. Exploitative
  4. Marketing
4
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Define receptive orientation

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all good things are received from sources outside of self

5
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Define Hoarding orientation

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strive to create fortress containing all one would ever need. Incapable of letting go

6
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Define exploitative orientation

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feelings of alienation solved by taking away from others

7
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Define Marketing orientation

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Representing ultimate alienation; selling oneself without knowing who we are

8
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What is the one healthy character type?

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The productive type?

9
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Define the productive type

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personality without the mask: strong sense of identity

10
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Receptive orientation corresponds to what escape from freedom?

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Authoritarianism (masochism)

11
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Exploitative orientation corresponds to what escape from freedom?

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Authoritarianism (sadism)

12
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Hoarding orientation corresponds to what escape from freedom?

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Perfectionist to destructive

13
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Marketing orientation corresponds to what escape from freedom?

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Automation conformer

14
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Productive orientation corresponds to what escape from freedom?

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Nope. Instead, it finds freedom and responsibility

15
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Define having mode

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We are defined by what I have: neurotic orientation

16
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Define being mode

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Focus on experience, not objectification: the productive orientation

17
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Which mode is a product of our society?

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Having mode

18
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Define biophilia

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love of life and growth

19
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Define necrophilia

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infatuation with decay and that which is not alive