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Finally, Fromm comes to love for God, the religious form of love. According to Fromm, the type of gods and the way in which they are loved or worshiped depends on the level of maturity that people have reached, which applies both at the level of society and at the level of the individual. [citation needed]
According to Fromm, the awareness of a disunited human existence is a source of guilt and shame, and the solution to this existential dichotomy is found in the development of one's uniquely human powers of love and reason. However, Fromm distinguished his concept of love from unreflective popular notions as well as Freudian paradoxical love ...
Fromm along with Freud believed that the most important aspect in one's character was not a single character trait, but rather, the total character organization from where many single character traits follow. [3] These character traits can be understood as a syndrome resulting from a particular character orientation. [3]
According to Simonian-Sotiriadis, dialectical thinking is “seeing things from multiple perspectives, to improve your sense of psychological balance." Really, it's all in the words.
Fromm proposed a re-evaluation of self-love in more positive sense, arguing that in order to be able to truly love another person, a person first needs to love oneself in the way of respecting oneself and knowing oneself (e.g. being realistic and honest about one's strengths and weaknesses). [14] [15]
Saying "I love you" could just mean "I think you are great" to one person, and "I am feeling so full of love for you, and I hope you will be in my life for a very long time" to another, she says.
The study surveyed hundreds of participants online about how they experienced 27 different types of love, such as romantic love, sexual love, parental love, and love for friends, strangers, nature ...
While Fromm provided for the possibility that religion could be a positive influence in an individual's life, perhaps facilitating happiness and comfort, his critique serves mainly to condemn, at a very basic level, most religious orders, especially those orders most commonly practiced in Western culture. Accordingly, Fromm's thesis is rejected ...