Receptive ExploitativeHoardingMarketingProductive 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 orientationsE r i c h 6 F r o m m1900 - 1980Biography8Erich 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 first involved a friend of the family's: Maybe she was 25 years of age; she was beautiful, attractive, and in addition a painter. Fromm remembered having heard that she was in an engagement that soon deteriorated. She was almost invariably in the company of her widowed father who happened to be an old, uninteresting, and rather unattractive man, or perhaps Erich’s judgment was somewhat biased by jealousy. One day he heard the shocking news: her father had died, and immediately afterwards, she had killed herself and left a will which stipulated that she wanted to be buried with her father. As you can imagine, this news hit the 12 year old Erich hard, and he found himself asking what many of us might ask: why? Later he began finding some answers -- partial ones, admittedly -- in Freud. The second event was even larger: World War I. At the tender age of 14, he saw the extremes of nationalism. All around him, he heard the message: Germans, or more precisely, Christian Germans, are great; The English and their allies are cheap mercenaries. The hatred; the "war hysteria," frighte...
