activism (20TH CENTURY).
Theory of the German-American psychoanalyst Erich Fromm (1900-1980).
Rarely used in psychology, this is the doctrine that any relationship between thought and reality is characterized by continuous activity on the part of the mind rather than passive sensory receptivity.
Source:
A J Chapman and D M Jones, eds, Models of Man (Leicester, 1980)
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