Editing Character structure (section)

=== Fromm ===
For [[Erich Fromm]] character develops as the way in which an individual structures modes of assimilation and relatedness. The character types are almost identical to Freud's but Fromm gives them different names: '''''receptive''''', '''''hoarding''''', and '''''exploitative'''''. Fromm adds the ''marketing'' type to describe individuals who continually adapt the self to succeed in the new service economy. For Fromm, character types can be productive or unproductive.  Fromm notes that character structures develop in each individual to enable him or her to interact successfully within a given society and adapt to its mode of production and social norms (see [[social character]]), and may be very counter-productive when used in a different society.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Durkin |first=K. |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/The_Radical_Humanism_of_Erich_Fromm/M3-oBAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=character+structure+is+a+system+of+secondary+traits&pg=PT186&printsec=frontcover |title=The Radical Humanism of Erich Fromm |date=2014-09-04 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-137-42843-1 |language=en}}</ref>

Fromm got his ideas about character structure from two associates/students of Freud, [[Sándor Ferenczi]] and [[Wilhelm Reich]]. It is Reich who really developed the concept from Ferenczi, and added to it an exploration of character structure as it applies to body structure and development as well as mental health<ref>{{Cite news |last=Elkind |first=David |date=1971-04-18 |title=Wilhelm Reich— The Psychoanalyst as Revolutionary |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/04/18/archives/wilhelm-reich-the-psychoanalyst-as-revolutionary-wilhelm-reich.html |access-date=2025-01-12 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>