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}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. |
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}Can take the form of (1) submission, (2) power, or (3) love.
}Submissive person and domineering person = symbiotic relationship, one that is satisfying to both partners
}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. |
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}Being thrown into the world without their consent/will, humans have to transcend their nature by destroying or creating people or things
◦looking for a purpose in order to “rise above their passive and accidental existence”
}Humans can destroy through malignant aggression-killing for reasons other than survival. They can also create and care about their creations. |
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}the need to establish roots and to feel at home again in the world.
}Productive; rootedness enables us to grow beyond the security of our mother & establish ties w/ outside world.
}nonproductive strategy; become fixated-afraid to move beyond the security & safety of our mother/mother substitute. |
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}an awareness of ourselves as a separate person.
}expressed nonproductively as conformity to a group and productively as individuality.
}Neurotics try to attach themselves to powerful people or social or political institutions; healthy people have less need to conform and give up their sense of self |
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}A road map/consistent philosophy finding our way through the world.
}expressed nonproductively as striving for irrational goals & productively as movement toward rational goals.
}Object of devotion/final goal focuses people’s energies in a single direction and gives meaning to lives |
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}a feeling of being alone in the world. |
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| Non-Productive Character Orientations |
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}Four nonproductive strategies that fail to move people closer to positive freedom and self-realization (not entirely negative) |
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}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, including love, knowledge, and material objects.
◦Positive: loyalty, acceptance, trust
◦Negative: passivity, submissiveness, and lack of self-confidence |
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}also believe that the source of good lies outside themselves, but they aggressively take what they want rather than passively receiving it
◦Positive: impulsive, proud, charming, self-confident
Negative: egocentric, conceited, arrogant, seducing |
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}try to save what they have already obtained, including their opinions, feelings, and material possessions
◦Positive: orderliness, cleanliness, and punctuality
◦Negative: rigidity, unproductive, obstinacy, compulsivity, lack of creativity |
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}see themselves as commodities and value themselves against the criterion of their ability to sell themselves They have fewer positive qualities than the other orientations because they are essentially empty.
◦Positive: changeability, openmindedness, adaptability, and generosity
◦Negative: aimlessness, opportunism, inconsistency, wastfulness |
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}The human dilemma can only be solved through positive freedom (the spontaneous activity of the integrated personality), and which is achieved when a person becomes reunited with others.
}Successful solution of being both a part of and separate from the world
}Main components: love and work |
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| because humans have acquired the ability to reason, they can think about their isolated condition |
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