심리상담의 목적

Abstract

This researcher distinguished the relationship with others(love) and the relationship with nature (productive work) on the one hand, and distinguished integrity, activity, and productiveness on the other hand, in order to tell the ideal of life according to E . Fromm. However, in order to summarize the whole, the distinction, especially the second one, should be ignored as much as possible. Ignoring that distinction. it should be noted that, first, the relationship between I and my potential (human god-like potential) and, second, the relationship between I and the world (others and nature). Focusing on these two relationships, this study presented the lessons learned from Fromm with two main points. First, my ‘inner’ as opposed to my ‘outer’ must be understood as my god-like potential. You may encounter cases where you call your desires, ambitions, and obsessions your ‘inner’, but these conventional ‘inner’ have nothing to do with your real insides, and these conventional ‘inner’ have nothing to do with your ideals of life - whether you call them integrity, activity, and productiveness, spontaneity, or freedom. I must be guided by my god-like potential, not by my desires. Second, productiveness - which of course includes love - or the ideal of life can also be defined as unity with the world. Although I am inevitably separated from the world, I must eventually restore unity. But what I should seek is the unity that incluses independece (separation), not unity without independence, such as symbiosis. These two points - along with the distinction between love and work - already appeard in Fromm’s early work, Escape from Freedom, and can be said to form the basis of his thoughts throughout his whole life. From the perspective of this study, the ideal of life revealed by these two points is the unity of mental health and morality, and it can be said that it is the ultimate aims of psychological counseling.