How could Fromm’s relatedness need explain Steve’s relationships with women? How does this compare with the Freudian explanation?
What will be an ideal response?
Fromm’s relatedness need suggests that humans have a drive for union with other humans. This need can be met only through genuine love. Steve is attempting to fulfill this need but will be unable to do so because his relationships with women are not genuine love relationships. Genuine love relationships, according to Fromm include feelings of caring, responsibility, respect and knowledge.
According to the Freudian explanation Steve would be fixated at the phallic stage of development which would have been caused by an unresolved Oedipus Complex.
While both Fromm’s and Freud’s theories can be considered psychodynamic, they differ in that Fromm’s is more humanistic. Fromm also emphasized social and cultural influences on personality more than did Freud, who emphasized more psychosexual influences.
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