PSY 4327 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: False Consciousness, Materialism, Antonio Gramsci

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 4327
• Professor: Kathleen Biard

Document Summary

All the physical and intellectual senses have been replaced by the simple alienation of all these senses; the sense of having. The human being had to be reduced to this absolute poverty in order to be able to give birth to all his inner wealth (marx in fromm in pacyna, 2012, p. 84) Alienation is essentially experiencing the world and oneself passively, receptively as the subject separated from the object (fromm in pacyna, p. 84) The more alienated he is, the more the sense of having and using constitutes his relationship to the world (fromm in. I must work to survive and this situation of must necessarily means that i exist in a state of disconnectedness with myself and my work. The necessity of my work for money, in some ways, destroys me; it is the negation of labor as a creative, vital activity (pacyna, 2012, p. 89)