I was reading some Erich Fromm earlier and he was writing about how he felt that most people are disengaged from an activity or aliveness and unconsciously depressed become consumers, retail therapy and all that, however a big part of what being active and alive involved he suggested was feeling and he suggested that most people live lives devoid of feeling, that instead of actually feeling they have a thought about feeling, these thoughts usually a product of suggestion, advertising, which was having neare hypnotic effects on people.
He described what was widespread then, which was like at a time when ads and marketing werent a patch on what they are today, as pseudo-feelings, no matter how much people may believe they were feeling they were instead thinking, then believing they had experienced feelings when all they had really done was think about what it would be like to experience feelings and usually in response to some sort of conditioning or suggestion.
Do you actually think that this is the case or do you think that what Fromm is describing is someone who is NT and is trying to develop more as an NF?
I believe that this phenomenon which Fromm describes is often refered to as cerebration or over thinking which can involve all kinds of feedback loops in terms of unhappy or depressive thoughts, resulting in negative feeling states, which in turn lead to further negative thoughts and that CBT was developed in response to it.
He described what was widespread then, which was like at a time when ads and marketing werent a patch on what they are today, as pseudo-feelings, no matter how much people may believe they were feeling they were instead thinking, then believing they had experienced feelings when all they had really done was think about what it would be like to experience feelings and usually in response to some sort of conditioning or suggestion.
Do you actually think that this is the case or do you think that what Fromm is describing is someone who is NT and is trying to develop more as an NF?
I believe that this phenomenon which Fromm describes is often refered to as cerebration or over thinking which can involve all kinds of feedback loops in terms of unhappy or depressive thoughts, resulting in negative feeling states, which in turn lead to further negative thoughts and that CBT was developed in response to it.