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Erich Fromm was a German-American psychologist and philosopher known for his theories on love, human nature, and psychoanalysis. He believed that the deepest human need is to overcome separateness through love, which he defined as a mature form of union that allows individuals to retain their integrity while connecting with others through care, responsibility, respect and knowledge. Fromm argued that love is the answer to the problem of human existence by fulfilling our need for interpersonal connection in a way that other attempts like conformity, creative acts, or symbiotic relationships cannot.
Erich Fromm was a German-American psychologist and philosopher known for his theories on love, human nature, and psychoanalysis. He believed that the deepest human need is to overcome separateness through love, which he defined as a mature form of union that allows individuals to retain their integrity while connecting with others through care, responsibility, respect and knowledge. Fromm argued that love is the answer to the problem of human existence by fulfilling our need for interpersonal connection in a way that other attempts like conformity, creative acts, or symbiotic relationships cannot.
Erich Fromm was a German-American psychologist and philosopher known for his theories on love, human nature, and psychoanalysis. He believed that the deepest human need is to overcome separateness through love, which he defined as a mature form of union that allows individuals to retain their integrity while connecting with others through care, responsibility, respect and knowledge. Fromm argued that love is the answer to the problem of human existence by fulfilling our need for interpersonal connection in a way that other attempts like conformity, creative acts, or symbiotic relationships cannot.
What is love? Many have attempted to define it with words, pictures, music, but unfortunately its never truly been described successfully these ways. Can it be described these ways? I dont think so. Love is not meant to be described. Its meant to be felt. Shared. Love Untitled is this idea in the picture form. Love in its untitled or indescribable form. The mystery of love. Love Untitled "Our main task is to give birth to ourselves." ~ Erich Fromm Erich Pinchas Fromm (March 23, 1900 March 18, 1980) was an internationally renowned German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, and humanistic philosopher. He was associated with what became known as the Frankfurt School of critical theory. 1900 born in Frankfurt, Germany His father was a business man and, according to Erich, rather moody. His mother was frequently depressed. In other words, like quite a few of the people we've looked at, his childhood wasn't very happy. "Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others." 1918 started his studies in at the University of Frankfurt am Main with two semesters of jurisprudence. 1919 studied at the University of Heidelberg, where he switched from studying jurisprudence to studying sociology under Alfred Weber (brother of Max Weber), Karl Jaspers, and Heinrich Rickert. 1922 received his Ph.D. in sociology from Heidelberg and was trained to become a psychoanalyst. 1927 began his own clinical practice 1930 joined the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research and completed his psychoanalytical training. After the Nazi takeover of power in Germany, the Jewish Fromm moved to Geneva 1934 moved to Columbia University in New York. Karen Horney's long-term infatuation with Fromm is the subject of her book Self Analysis and it is reasonable to believe that each had a lasting influence on the other's thought. 1943 After leaving Columbia, he helped form the New York Branch of the Washington School of Psychiatry 1945 formed the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology. "In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two." 1950 moved to Mexico City, he became a professor at the UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mexico) and established a psychoanalytic section at the medical school there. He taught at the UNAM until his retirement in 1965. 1957 to 1961 taught as a professor of psychology at Michigan State University 1962 taught as an adjunct professor of psychology at the graduate division of Arts and Sciences at New York University 1974 moved to Muralto, Switzerland 1980 died at his home, five days before his eightieth birthday. THE ANSWER TO THE PROBLEM OF HUMAN EXISTENCE Definition Man is gifted with reason; he is life being aware of itself Aware of himself as a separate entity, short life span, helplessness before the forces of nature and of society The experience of separateness arouses anxiety The deepest need of man is the need to overcome his separateness, to leave the prison of his aloneness HOW?? Overcome separateness, achieve union, find at-onement Attempts to answer the problem 1. Orgiastic States - characteristics: intense, occur in the total personality, transitory, periodical auto-induced trance: drugs, alcohol tribal rituals sexual experience 2. Union based in Conformity (customs, beliefs, practices) a union in which the individual self disappears to a large extent, and where the aim is to belong to the herd By trying desperately to conform, we sometimes will even give up our lives in order to remain a part of our group. But this is only pretend identity, an identity we take from others. When we need to hide, we hide in our mass culture instead. When I get dressed in the morning, there are so many decisions! But I only need to look at what you are wearing, and my frustrations disappear. Or I can look at the television, which, like a horoscope, will tell me quickly and effectively what to do. If I look like, talk like, think like, feel like... everyone else in my society, then I disappear into the crowd, and I don't need to acknowledge my freedom or take responsibility. When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. The person is like a social chameleon: He takes on the coloring of his surroundings. Since he looks like a million other people, he no longer feels alone. He isn't alone, perhaps, but he's not himself either. He experiences a split between his genuine feelings and the colors he shows the world. When conformity to the herd is the norm, it takes outstanding bravery to remain an individual 3. Creative Activity person unites himself with his material, which represents the world outside of himself. in all types of creative work the worker and his object become one, man unites himself with the world in the process of creation; however, such unity is not interpersonal.
The unity achieved in productive work is not interpersonal; the unity achieved in orgiastic fusion is transitory; the unity achieved by conformity is only pseudo- unity. Hence, they are only partial answers. The full answer lies in the achievement of interpersonal union , of fusion with another person, in LOVE. 4. Love interpersonal union, of fusion with another person problem: fusion can be achieved in different ways
THE MEANING OF LOVE Immature form I. Symbiotic union (biological & psychic) Symbiosis is the relationship two organisms have who cannot live without each other. example is the case where the parent "swallows" the child, so that the child's personality is merely a reflection of the parent's wishes. II. Psychic symbiotic union a. passive form = masochism: One is to submit to the power of others, becoming passive and compliant b. active form = sadism: Others look to eliminate their isolation by dominating others Either way, these are not satisfying: Your separateness is not overcome. Immature form from the movie Basic Instinct Mature form Love is union under the condition of preserving ones integrity, ones individuality. Love is an active power in man; a power that breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellowmen, which unites him with others Love makes him overcome the sense of isolation and separateness, yet it permits him to be himself, to retain his integrity Paradox: Two beings become one and yet remain two
Love is an activity = a standing in not a falling for; giving, not receiving 1. Knowledge it does not stay at the periphery, but penetrates to the core the only way of full knowledge lies in the act of love: this act transcends thought, it transcends words = it is the daring plunge into the experience of union with the other only if I know a human being objectively, can I know him in his ultimate essence, in the act of love 2. Respect (respicere = to look at) the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality the concern that the other person should grow and unfold as he is; absence of exploitation respect exists only on the basis of freedom: lamour est lenfant de la libert (love is the child of freedom) 3. Responsibility a voluntary act; my response to the needs, expressed or unexpressed, of another human being to be responsible means to be able and ready to respond 4. Care love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love the essence of love is to labor for something and to make something grow e.g. mothers love for her child Care, responsibility, respect and knowledge are mutually interdependent. They are a syndrome of attitudes which are to be found in the mature person. "We are only capable of knowing, and caring for the other if we are also capable of understanding, caring, and knowing ourselves" "What matters in relation to love is the faith in one's own love; in its ability to produce love in others." In the morning of my life I shall look to the sunrise At the moment in my life when the world is new And the Blessing I shall ask is that God shall grant me To be Brave and Strong and True And to fill the world with love my whole life through.
Chorus: And to fill the world with love (x3) My whole life through.
At the noontime of my life I shall look at the sunshine At the moment in my life when the sky is blue And the Blessing I shall ask shall remain unchanging To be Brave and Strong and True And to fill the world with love my whole life through. (rep chorus)
In the evening of my life I shall look to the sunset At the moment in my life when my days are few And the Question I shall ask only you can answer Was I Brave and Strong and True? Did I fill the world with love my whole life through? (rep chorus) Erich Fromm Mr. Roland Lorenzo M. Ruben End of presentation Thank you for your time. I love you.