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1. Erich Fromm’s
Social Psychological
Theory
Presented by:
Mary Anne A. Portuguez, MP, RPm

2. Erich Fromm’s
Social
Psychological
Theory

3. BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
Erich Fromm was born in Germany in 1900, the only child of
orthodox Jewish parents. A thoughtful young man, Fromm
was influenced by the bible, Freud, and Marx, as well as by
socialist ideology. After receiving his PhD, Fromm began
studying psychoanalysis and became an analyst by virtue of
being analyzed by Hans Sachs, a student of Freud. In 1934,
Fromm moved to the United States and began a
psychoanalytic practice in New York, where he also resumed
his friendship with Karen Horney. Much of his later years
were spent in Mexico and Switzerland. He died in 1980.

4. BASIC TENET
• Fromm believed that humans have been torn away
from their prehistoric union with nature and left with
no powerful instincts to adapt to a changing world.
But because humans have acquired the ability to
reason, they can think about their isolated
condition—a situation Fromm called the human
dilemma.
• Dichotomies, a two-pronged dilemma that has no
solution because none of the alternatives is entirely
satisfactory.

5. Some important terms
• Human needs, our human dilemma cannot be solved by
satisfying our animal needs. It can only be addressed by
fulfilling our uniquely human needs, an accomplishment that
moves us toward a reunion with the natural world. Fromm
identified five of these distinctively human or existential needs.
• Relatedness, takes in different forms (1) submission, (2) power,
or (3) love. Love, or the ability to unite with another while
retaining one's own individuality and integrity, is the only
relatedness need that can solve our basic human dilemma.

6. Some important terms
• Transcendance, Being thrown into the world without their
consent, humans have to transcend their nature by destroying or
creating people or things. Humans can destroy through
malignant aggression, or killing for reasons other than survival,
but they can also create and care about their creations.
• Rootedness, is the need to establish roots and to feel at home
again in the world.
• Sense of Identity, an awareness of ourselves as a separate
person. The drive for a sense of identity is expressed
nonproductively as conformity to a group and productively as
individuality.

7. Some Important Terms
• Frame of orientation, he meant a road map or consistent philosophy
by which we find our way through the world. This need is expressed
nonproductively as a striving for irrational goals and productively as
movement toward rational goals.

8. Character Orientations
• receptive orientation, believe that the source of all good lies outside
themselves and that the only way they can relate to the world is to
receive things.
• exploitative orientation also believe that the source of good lies
outside themselves, but they aggressively take what they want rather
than passively receiving it.

9. • hoarding characters try to save what they have already obtained,
including their opinions, feelings, and material possessions.
• marketing orientation see themselves as commodities and value
themselves against the criterion of their ability to sell themselves.
**the four types are nonproductive orientation
Character Orientations

10. Productive
• Psychologically healthy people work toward positive freedom through
productive work, love. and reasoning. Productive love necessitates a
passionate love of all life and is called biophilia.

11. Psychological Disorders
(1) necrophilia, or the love of death and the hatred of all humanity;
(2) malignant narcissism, or a belief that everything belonging to
one's self is of great value and anything belonging to others is
worthless; and incestuous symbiosis, or an extreme dependence on
one's mother or mother surrogate.