Erich Fromm, being the education sociologist and philosopher, considered the human needs in the plane of economic and political conditions.Outstanding psychologist argued that the formation of personality affects the satisfaction of spiritual needs, often regulated society.
Fromm and Freud, both share the same opinion that the character does not change with age.
person can be productive or unproductive endowed with traits manifested in relation to society.
In the second group of character types (non-productive or unhealthy) Fromm singled receptive, exploiting, store and market identity.
social needs of the person with a receptive character type
receptive type peculiar to the belief that the positive has to come from the outside world to them, and not vice versa.Personality performs passive social role, demanding the attention and care from others.The man constantly feels the need for outside help, in love, in response credulity and sentimentality.Receptive personality often idealistic and optimistic.
social needs of the person with the operating type of character
exploit type peculiar to conquer and rule.On track to meet its needs people are aggressive, they get their way by force or guile.They enjoy the process of seduction, they value their own achievements.What belongs to others, beckoning them with irresistible force.
social needs of the person with the accumulating type of character
acquisitive personality type chronically whole life feels the need to save even without a good reason.The systematic pursuit of the accumulation of wealth and benefits manifested pathological avarice.Emotional poverty combined with the thirst of someone's love, which can not be mutual by definition.Fanatical need for personal neatness often transformed into sheer pedantry.
social needs of the person with a market type of character
Fromm emphasized the fact that the market type of character common to all modern society.Man consciously or subconsciously feels a constant need to strike a balance between price and demand.Every member of society enjoys the same categories of values in business dealings and personal.Thus, the market for the type of character, it is important to present yourself in a society, as an expensive commodity (service).Ability and talent lose value individuality, are exchanged between the client and contractor.
social needs of a person with a productive type of character
Humanistic theory Fromm preparing humanity to the conclusion that the productive character type reveals the meaning of human development.In his writings, the concept of fruitfulness psychologist linked to the need of creativity, active social position, activities and mutual love.According to Fromm's productive over time become the dominant type of character in society.
Social needs - it needs replenishment depends on the current priorities of cultured society at this stage of its development.No one corresponds to a certain type of character in an absolutely pure form.Nevertheless, productive person, according to Fromm, has perfect mental health.Therefore, the conditions in the society should be built so that people could meet the need for social activity, work and interpersonal love.It depends on the psychological health of the individual, his family, the nation and the country.
Fromm interpreted his humanistic psychoanalysis, as a way to rid mankind of loneliness, alienation and isolation.Humanistic theory Fromm has a number of opponents.
