How could Fromm’s concept of the existential dilemmas explain Robert’s experiences with mysticism? Compare this concept with Jung’s archetypes.
What will be an ideal response?
Fromm believed that because human beings have reasoning abilities we will attempt to solve basic insoluble existential dichotomies. One of these dichotomies involves the issues of life and death. This dichotomy suggests that while we all understand that at some time we will die, we also tend to believe that there is life after death. Clearly, this is consistent with Robert’s mystical experiences. It is also similar to Jung’s archetypes in that archetypes are primordial images that we inherit from our ancestors. These inherited archetypes influence our behavior. If people believe in life after death, they can believe that their ancestors continue to exist even though they have died. Potentially, the deceased ancestors could still have an influence on the living, just as the archetypes inherited from ancestors do. More generally, both Fromm’s existential dichotomies and Jung’s archetypes are philosophical or spiritual in nature. On the other hand, the archetypes and the dilemmas are different from each other in numbers (there are more archetypes than dilemmas) and in that archetypes affect a greater range of behaviors in comparison to the existential dichotomies.
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