The rule of love and the implications for sustainable development policy in Africa

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION1

Research Aim1

Research Objectives1

Research Question(s)1

Literature Review2

Research methods3

Overview of the Africa social structure4

Discussion and Analysis4

Anticipated Problems4

Anticipated Timetable5

REFERENCES6

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

Research Aim

This research aim is to put light on the implication of Eric Fromm theory of love on the sustainable development policy in Africa.

Research Objectives

The researcher did extensive study on the existing research and set the following objectives for this research.

Brief description of rule of love by.

Implications of rule of love in Africa.

Impact of rule of love on the sustainable development in Africa.

Implication of rule of love in Africa.

Research Question(s)

The research aims to answer the following question

What is rule of love?

How Eric Fromm rule of love impacts the development in Africa?

How sustainable development in Africa can be achieved through application of the Eric Fromm rule of love?

How rule of love can be helpful in sustainable development in Africa?

Literature Review

According to the definition given by Eric, love is a phenomenon. Love is basically associated with the human needs. The human being needs relations, care and respect. If these needs are fulfilled only then the human gets inner satisfaction. Love is basically the inner feeling with which one feels satisfaction. Love in actual terms means satisfaction. The rule of love and Fromm theory can be applied to overcome the crises in Africa.

It is interesting to note that at the same time Fromm's interest in the authoritarian character was growing alongside his de-emphasis on the primacy of sexual needs in human character development, his interest was increasing on the subject and theory of love.

Following his call for an analysis of love, Fromm classified two different (passive and active) types of pseudo-love called “symbiosis” (p. 518) which he initially defined as “a basic inability to be independent” (p. 518). After examining some contemporary examples of “sadistic” and “masochistic” pseudo-love, Fromm wrote, “It appears from what has been said that love cannot be separated from 137 freedom and independence” (p. 518). With this last statement, Fromm was clearly attaching the notions of love and freedom together as a cohesive premise from which sadomasochistic behaviors and tendencies could be explored. (Fromm 1997)

In Fromm's next publication, Escape from freedom we find his first explicit existential critique of Freud's death instinct and the beginning outline of a new existential-humanistic theoretical framework for sadomasochism. One outstanding feature of Fromm's critique of Freud's death instinct ...