PSY 3303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Necrophilia, Escape From Freedom, Consumerism
2 Dec 2016
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Lecture 13, 14, & 15 erich fromm: psychoanalytic and humanistic social psychology. Fromm wanted to understand the laws that governed the life of the individual and the laws of society. Freud pictured humans as determined primarily by their biological instincts and the forces of repression exerted by their own egos. Fromm adopted freud"s conviction that most of what is real is not conscious, and most of what is conscious is not real. Marx depicted humans as determined by the structure of their society and the forces of repression exerted by economic and political constraints and pressures. Present day sense of insignificance in the face of powerful corporations, massive bureaucracies, and trans-human technologies. Fromm adopted marx"s conviction that humans are not free, and cannot be free, so long as they accept uncritically external control by social customs and institutions. Your freedom will emerge when you begin to mindfully question. Social or liberal freedoms vs. personal or existential freedom.
