Concept
Character orientation
In Man for Himself (1947), the relatively stable way in which a person relates to the world, both in acquiring and assimilating things and in relating to other people, which Fromm put in place of Freud's libidinal stages as the basis of character. He described four nonproductive orientations, the receptive, the exploitative, the hoarding and the marketing, and set the productive orientation against them; an actual character blends several, one of them dominant.
Development
1947
Erich Fromm introduced by
In Man for Himself (1947) Fromm classified character by its orientations, the receptive, exploitative, hoarding and marketing, which are nonproductive, and the productive.
Relations
- 1947 introduced by Erich Fromm
In Man for Himself (1947) Fromm classified character by its orientations, the receptive, exploitative, hoarding and marketing, which are nonproductive, and the productive.
- diverges from Psychosexual development
Fromm acknowledged that his receptive, exploitative and hoarding orientations correspond to Freud's oral and anal character types, but grounded character in a person's ways of relating to the world and to others rather than in the stages of libidinal organization.
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References
- Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics1947 Evidence for a relation