FROMM'S ORIENTATIONS TEST
How well does each word apply to you? 5 (very well), 4, 3, 2, 1 (not at all).
You will need to sum down for the first four orientations and sum across some of the rows, then sum down and divide by two for the last orientation. The chart should make it clear.
Tender____Captivating_____ Orderly_____Witty_____Sum_____Gullible_____Arrogant_____Stubborn_____Indifferent_____
Sum_____Optimistic_____Gracious_____Reserved_____Curious_____ Sum_____Cowardly_____
Conceited_____ Suspicious_____ Unprincipled_____ Sum_____Idealistic_____
Assertive_____Economical_____Youthful_____Sum_____
Submissive_____Exploitative_____Unimaginative_____
Opportunistic_____ Sum_____Sentimental_____ Seducing_____ Obsessive_____
Silly_____Sum_____Tolerant_____Steady_____Selfconfident____Loyal_____Sum_____
Wishful_____ Rash_____ Cold_____ Tactless_____ Sum_____Sensitive_____
Proud_____Careful_____ Open-minded____Sum_____Unrealistic_____Aggressive_____Stingy_____
Childish_____ Sum_____Devoted_____ Active_____ Practical_____ Purposeful_____
Sum_____Sum down_____ Sum down_____ Sum down_____ Sum down_____ Sum down &
divide by two_____ Receptive Exploitative Hoarding Marketing Productive
Scores from 12 to 24 are low, 25 to 36 low medium, 37 to 48 high medium, and 49 to 60 high. Please do not take your scores too seriously: the reliability and validity of this test are unknown! This is presented only to give you a better sense of Fromm's orientations
Erich Fromm 1900 - 1980
Biography
8Erich Fromm was born in 1900 in Frankfurt, Germany. His father was a business man and, according to Erich, rather moody. His mother was frequently depressed. His childhood was not very happy.
8Like Jung, Erich came from a very religious family, in his case orthodox Jews. Fromm himself later became what he called an atheistic mystic.
8In his autobiography, Beyond the Chains of Illusion, Fromm talks about two events in his early adolescence that started him along his path.
The book Night opens in the town of Signet where Elie Wiesel, the author ,
Freud was born into a family that practiced Orthodox Judaism they were above all religious to their core. In his youth, Freud read and learned from the ancient Hebrew Scriptures.
Carl Gustav Jung was born on July 26th, 1875 in Kesswil, Switzerland, the only son of Johannes Paul Achilles Jung, a Swiss Reformed Church Evangelical minister. He was a strange, melancholic child with no brothers or sisters until he was nine years old. The family was steeped in religion, as he had eight uncles in the clergy as well as his maternal grandfather, Samuel Preiswerk, a respected pastor in Basel.
Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet Transylvania on September 30, 1928. Prior to being taken under the Nazi 's rule, he decided to pursue Religious studies,as his father did. He grew up with his parents and three sisters. in the year 1944, when Elie was 15 years old,
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20th 1889 in a small town called Braunau in Austria, close to the German border. His father Alois was 51 when Adolf was born, he was known for being short-tempered and brutal to Adolf. It was because of Adolf’s stepbrother who went to jail for a theft. Alois was determined to prevent it with his second child. Hitler’s dad’s past was potential embarrassment for the future nazi leader because his mother was a cook that worked for a Jewish family. Alois was a civil servant which was a respected job at that time.
Nietzsche, Friedrich (Wilhelm) (1844-1900), German philosopher, poet, and classical philologist, who was one of the most provocative and influential thinkers of the 19th century. “In addition to the influence of Greek culture, particularly the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle, Nietzsche was influenced by German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, by the theory of evolution, and by his friendship with German composer Richard Wagner. Nietzsche's first major work, Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste de Musik (The Birth of Tragedy), appeared in 1872”(Morrison). His most prolific period as an author was the 1880s.”During the decade he wrote Also sprach Zarathustra (Parts I-III, 1883-1884; Part IV, 1885; translated as Thus Spoke Zarathustra); Jenseits von Gut und Böse (1886; Beyond Good and Evil); Zur Genealogie de Moral (1887; On the Genealogy of Morals); Der Antichrist (1888; The Antichrist); and Ecce Homo (completed 1888, published 1908).”(muohio.edu) Nietzsche's last major work, The Will to Power (Der Wille zur Macht), was published in 1901. According to Nietzsche, the masses (whom he termed the herd or mob) conform to tradition, whereas his ideal overman is secure, independent, and highly individualistic.” The overman feels deeply, but his passions are rationally controlled. Concentrating on the real world, rather than on the rewards of the next world promised by religion, the overman affirms life, including the suffering and pain that accompany human existence. Nietzsche's overman is a creator of values, a creator of a "master morality" that reflects the strength and independence of one who is liberated from all values, except those that he deems valid”(muohio.edu).
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), born in Frieburg, Moravia which is known as the Chezch Republic. Having a stern father and a big family was the foundation for one of his well known theories of the Oedipus complex.
While many people automatically assume that Hitler is German because of his dictatorship there, he is actually from Austria. He was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria on April 20th, 1889. His father was Alois Hitler, and his mother was Klara Hitler. He had six siblings, yet only two survived to adulthood. Hitler’s father passed away when he was only thirteen, leaving his mother to care for him and his siblings. Times quickly became rough at home, and Hitler dropped out of school at the age of sixteen. Just a few short years later his mother passed away from breast cancer. Hitler then moved to Vienna where he sold post cards of his artwork to get by. Hitler submitted his artwork to the Vienna Academy of Arts multiple times, only to be rejected. During his years in Vienna is when it is believed that he picked up his anti-Semite opinions.
He was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau-am-Inn, Austria, of German descent. His father Alois was the illegitimate son of Maria Anna Schicklgruber. In middle age Alois took the name Hitler from his paternal grandfather. After two wives had died Alois married his foster daughter, Klara Poelzl, a Bavarian, 23 years younger than he. She became Adolf's mother.
The Famous and Brilliant, Albert Einstein, was born in Germany in 1879. Einstein was born into a Jewish family, and grew up in Munich, Germany, where his father and uncle collectively ran a company that produced electrical equipment. Later in his childhood, Einstein’s family moved to Italy, then to Switzerland not long after. In 1896, Einstein renounced his German citizenship so that he would be able to avoid the Obligatory military service.
The son of a Protestant Minister, Jung also had ties to western religion. Ties that showed themselves in his beliefs and writings (Microsoft Encarta 96 Encyclopedia). Jung cited the importance of the unconscious as a religious channel in his psycho...
Carl Jung was the son of Johann Jung and Emilie Jung. Jung’s mother came from a protestant family (Smith, 1996). On both sides of Jung’s
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