Essays Tagged: "Erich Fromm"

Obedience to authority

an even be assigned a person to marry.The obedience and conformity of cults can also be compared to Erich Fromm's essay. Most of the decisions to comply with the authorities figure in cults destructiv ...

(1 pages) 152 0 1.8 Dec/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Computers are Changing Everything!

is people letting technology overcome their lives and eventually they will be overcome by laziness.Erich Fromm was also aware of this problem when he wrote his essay Work in an Alienated Society by s ...

(7 pages) 260 2 4.8 Jan/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

Title- The Value of Altruism Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand Prompt- Explain how Rostand uses three central characters in her novel to further her theme,

Erich Fromm, a famous American psychologist, once said, "Selfish persons are incapable of loving oth ... rtue can bring.Works CitedRostand, Edmond. Cyrano De Bergerac. New York: Bantam Books, 1998.Fromm , Erich. Man for Himself. Columbia University Press, 1947.

(4 pages) 74 0 3.8 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

"A Martian Sends A Postcard Home" by Craig Raine.

ologists believe that the best way to judge is to defamiliarise, this shouldn't be too difficult as Erich Fromm believed that;Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature ...

(6 pages) 55 0 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Obedience in groups

There is an inevitability to the junction of the individual being part of a group.Work Cited:Fromm, Erich, "Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem" (375-361). Writing and Reading across the ...

(3 pages) 47 0 0.0 Feb/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Personality Essay

that of our siblings. Horney believed the cultures and time period reared different personalities. Fromm believed that historical forces and events influence people and as well as by the kind of soci ...

(2 pages) 42610 0 3.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Erich Fromm

Erich Fromm Erich Fromm, a German-born social psychoanalyst, was born in 1900 in Fr ... mily, children learn to acknowledge their freedom and to take responsibility for themselves. Erich Fromm was interested with why people display a temper. He concluded that some possible reasons ... I believe that a child learns to act from the model behavior there parents show. I am sure that in Erich Fromm's day and age it behavior was a result of society, but I think that in today's society e ...

(3 pages) 15 0 5.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Love and Living Erich Fromm's Utopian Society This paper is 10 pages long not including the abstract and is in APA format

as in Fromm’s opinion the only way to combat the feeling of isolation that man has from nature.Erich Fromm’s Utopian SocietyThe concept of the perfect society has been the focus of many scho ... has been the focus of many scholars and intellectual for countless years. The great psychoanalysis Erich Fromm was no different; Fromm believed that the post war society was flawed. He theorized that ...

(14 pages) 28 0 0.0 Nov/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Obedience Do You Follow or Not?

not guilty. He knew Johnson wasn't guilty and was blackballed by the House and Senate. According to Erich Fromm, "Rational authority is to be found in the relationship between student and teacher" (pa ... t is dangerous for everyone involved. At the right time disobedience is a virtue.BibliographyFromm, Erich. "Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem". 1963Zimbardo, Philip G. "Stanford Prison ...

(5 pages) 23 0 3.0 Sep/2009

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Critique of Psychological Experiments and Subjects

s showed their power and dehumanized the prisoners and prisoners also resisted. He also pointed out Erich Fromm definition of sadisms "the wish for absolute control over another living being" (350) we ...

(8 pages) 33 0 0.0 May/2010

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology