Character orientation

Under a character orientation, the common direction of the instinctual or passionate strivings of a man is to be understood, which makes it possible to describe his character structure uniformly. Here are several traits or characteristics combine to orientation. According to Erich Fromm, inter alia, be the following character orientations are distinguished: authoritarian, necrophiliac and narcissistic character orientation, marketing orientation, productive and non-productive orientation. In contrast to character orientation is expressed in a single trait is not necessarily a uniform basic orientation of the character from. The distinction between character orientation and trait also applies to the individual character as the social character by Erich Fromm.

• Psychoanalysis