Abstract: . . .  meaning of both fabricated and made is intended and welcome: whoever relies on fabricated or made ability cor- responds to the postmodern I-am-me oriented person displaying an extreme pre- occupation with „doing,“ „making,“ or „acting,“ yet his or her modes of expression additionally have the semblance of the „fabricated“ or the „made,“ the suggested, the synthetic, the artificial, the simulated. Whoever counts on „fabricated“ ability has „fabricated“ feelings as well. He or she impresses with a „fabricated“ person- ality; his or her experience of relationship is directed by „fabricated“ interactions, and the children's upbringing is not that of the father or the mother but that „fabri- cated“ by child-rearing manuals (and carried out by the parents). The conflict between „fabricated“ and human possibilities for constructing re- ality today mainly results from pressures to conform to a capitalist economic sys- tem, which offers and sells realities (in the guise of lifestyles, eventful experi- ences, and means of coping) in the intention of making the use of human powers superfluous by suggesting the total superiority of fabricated and appropriated re- ality. The more successful it is, the more likely it is that postmodern persons will try to live according to an I-am-me orientation and will try to use „fabricated“ real- ity to conceal their weak points. Such an economy has succeeded in determining the fate of the human being: bound in networks, bound umbilically, and bound and fed . . .
. . .  the promotion of the productiveness of per- sons with an I-am-me orientation by psychotherapists, social workers, and educators is the phasing out of auxiliary egos, auxiliary superegos, and auxil- iary ego ideals. This process can only be carried out gradually and 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  . . .
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