Abstract: . . .  should not Page 16 16 overtax the persons involved, yet a clear and challenging concept must be proposed, with the goal that I-am-me oriented persons themselves assume responsibility for their strong and weak egos, their personal ideals, and the accepted norms as well as discontinue utilizing the responsibility of the therapist, the social worker, or educator and exercising control over these. The last word belongs to Erich Fromm: „Productiveness is man's ability to use his powers and to realize the potentialities inherent in him .“ (E. Fromm, Man for Him- self , p. 84) Copyright © 2006 by Dr. Rainer Funk, Ursrainer Ring 24, D-72076 Tübingen Tel. 07071-600004, Fax -600049; E-Mail: frommfunk[at-symbol] aol.com Translated from German by Dr. Jo Van Vliet, Tübingen  . . .
. . .  competencies. The human subject is no longer able or capable but the personal computer or the software or the management system. Page 9 9 plementation of human abilities: in the area of the individual personality and in the area of social existence. Digital technology and the electronic media have also made totally new developments in psychotechnics and sociotechnics possi- ble. Following the widespread collapse of traditional systems of order these offer, so to speak, the urgently required „operating systems“ and „software“ for person- ality development and the organization of social life. Courses in personality development and similar programs in management assist in the optimization of self-perception and personal willpower, the refine- ment of social competencies, the improvement of perception and communication, the ability to resolve conflicts, the capacity to learn, and the appropriation of lead- ership qualities. What psychotechnics achieves in the area of personality development is what . . .
. . .  the projection of his or her own powers onto the authority. To do the same with an I-am-me oriented person would be senseless, and would probably even lead to a reinforcement of this mindset. What productiveness means concretely depends on the type of nonproductiveness preponderant in a society. What, then, do productiveness and strengthening of the productive orienta- tion mean for the social character orientation that is I-am-me directed and becom- ing all the more dominant? My reflections on psychodynamics and on the psy- choanalysis of the I-am-me orientation suggest the following summary. The general goal is always to counter the I-am-me orientation assisted by „made“ ability with an experience of the ego assisted by human ability and to recognize and gradually reduce the dependency on „made“ ability. This does not require the rejection of „fabricated“ or „made“ ability but its implementation for the preserva- tion and multiplication—and not the replacement—of human ability. Whoever . . .
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