Personality Theory

6. HUMAN DILEMMA

12. ROOTEDNESS
• WE ALSO NEED ROOTS
• WE NEED TO FEEL AT HOME IN THE UNIVERSE
• THE SIMPLEST VERSION IS TO MAINTAIN OUR TIES TO OUR MOTHER

14. A SENSE OF IDENTITY
•‘MAN MAY BE DEFINED AS THE ANIMAL THAT
CAN SAY I’
•WE NEED TO HAVE A SENSE
OF IDENTITY

15. A FRAME OF ORIENTATION
• OUR NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD AND OUR PLACE IN IT
• OUR SOCIETY AND ESPECIALLY THE RELIGIOUS ASPECTS OF OUR CULTURE OFTEN ATTEMPT TO
PROVIDE US WITH THIS UNDERSTANDING LIKE OUR MYTH PHILOSOPHIES ETC
• REALLY 3 NEEDS-
1. A FRAME OF ORIENTATION-ALMOST ANYTHING WILL DO (EVEN A BAD ONE IS BETTER THAN NONE)
2. WE WANT TO HAVE A GOOD FRAME OF ORIENTATION
3. WE DON’T JUST WANT A COLD PHILOSOPHY OR MATERIAL SCIENCE

17. THE BURDEN OF FREEDOM
•HUMAN BEING-THE FREAK OF THE UNIVERSE
•HISTORICALLY PEOPLE GAINED MORE POLITICAL FREEDOM
•THEY BEGAN TO EXPERIENCE MORE ISOLATION
•AS A RESULT FREEDOM BECOMES A BURDEN
•FEEL ALONE IN THE WORLD

18. MECHANISMS OF ESCAPE

19. AUTHORITATIVE
• We seek to avoid freedom by fusing ourselves with others
by becoming a part of an authoritarian system
• Two ways to approach-1-to submit the power of others
becoming passive and complaint
2-to become an authority yourself
• The extreme version is masochism and sadism

20. DESTRUCTIVENESS
• IT IS THE ESCAPE FROM FREEDOM THAT ACCOUNTS FOR MUCH OF THE
INDISCRIMINATE NASTINESS OF LIFE
• E.G.- HUMILIATION, CRIME TERRORISM ETC
• THE MOST OBVIOUS KIND OF SELF-DESTRUCTION IS SUICIDE

21. AUTOMATON CONFORMITY
•THE PERSON WHO USES AUTOMATON CONFORMITY IS LIKE
A SOCIAL CHAMELEON
•HE TAKES ON THE COLORING OF HIS SURROUNDING
•SINCE HE LOOKS LIKE A MILLION OTHER PEOPLE, HE LONGER
FEELS ALONE

22. FAMILIES
SYMBIOTIC
•SYMBIOSIS-WHO CANNOT
LIVE WITHOUT EACH OTHER
•ACTIVE AND PASSIVE
•SOME MEMBERS OF THE
FAMILY ARE ‘SWALLOWED
UP’ BY OTHER MEMBERS
WITHDRAWING
•WITHDRAWAL AS A FAMILY
STYLE HAS COME TO
DOMINATE SOME SOCIETIES
•TWO TYPES
PURITANICAL &INFANTILE

26. Orientation Society Family Escape from freedom
Receptive Peasant s Symbiotic (passive) Authoritarian (masochistic)
Exploitative Aristrocratic s Symbioic (active) Authoritarian (sadistic)
Hoarding Bourgeosis s Withrawing (puritanical) Perfectionist to distructive
Marketing Modern s Withdrawing (infantile) Automation conformist
Productive Humanistic
Communitarian
Socialism
Loving and reasoning Freedom and responsibility
Acknowledged and
accepted