Abstract: . . .  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  . . .
. . .  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 . . .
. . .  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 . . .
. . .  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  . . .
. . .  an effect consuming energy. 9 A second possibility for more specifically determining productiveness and productive orientation is the use of psychoanalytic concepts to discover which fate the productive powers of growth suffer with which type of nonproductive so- cial character orientation. In the case of the authoritarian character orientation we can say that the authority will lead the human being to project the individual pow- ers that make autonomy and independence possible onto the authority, to make this strong and determining, the individual, however, submissive, dependent, and weak. Here . . .
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