Sublime

Die Überwindung von Traumata, Missbrauch, Abhängigkeit, geringer Selbstachtung und Depressionen wird zu Erlösungsprogrammen und speist eine hungrige und gierige Selbstverbesserungsmaschinerie,18 weil die klinische Psychologie in all ihren Varianten – den kommerzialisierten und den wissenschaftlichen – die emotionale Veranlagung des Individuums in e

psychoanalyst Erich Fromm

In Adlerian psychology, there are aspects that are antithetical to normal social thinking. It denies aetiology, denies trauma and adopts teleology. It treats people’s problems as interpersonal relationship problems. And the not-seeking of recognition and the separation of tasks, too, are probably antithetical to normal social thinking.

“Man's life cannot "be lived" by repeating the pattern of his species; he must live. Man is the only animal that can be bored, that can be discontented, that can feel evicted from paradise. Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape. He cannot go back to the prehuman state of

On the other hand, he wouldn’t necessarily be a tyrant—one might speak of the sort of person who disturbs the harmony of a group as self-centred, too. He’s someone who can’t operate in a group, and prefers to act alone. He never stops to reflect on his actions, even when he’s late for appointments or fails to keep his promises. In a word, he is an

The cultural process that gave rise to modern society and modern man was the development of the ego. This development is associated with the acquisition of knowledge and the gaining of power over nature. Man is part of nature like any other animal, fully subject to her laws; but he is also above nature, acting upon and controlling her. He does the

O Eros de um homem, sua capacidade de amar e de se relacionar, deve ser libertado do apego à mãe, deve ser capaz de se estender a uma mulher que seja sua contemporânea; do contrário, ele permanece uma pessoa exigente, dependente, infantil.

Man is a wolf to man.