Productive Orientation
There is a healthy personality as well, which Erich Fromm occasionally refers to as "the person without a mask" . This is the type of person who, without disavowing his or her biological and social nature, does not avoid freedom and responsibility. This person most likely comes out of a family that loves, which prefers reason to rules, and freedom to conformity.
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