Who is Erich Fromm
Erich Seligmann Fromm (; German: [fʁɔm]; March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980) was a German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was a German Jew who fled the Nazi regime and settled in the US. He was one of the founders of The William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology in New York City and was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.Life
Erich Fromm was born on March 23, 1900, at Frankfurt am Main, the only child of Orthodox Jewish parents, Rosa (Krause) and Naphtali Fromm. He started his academic studies in 1918 at the University of Frankfurt am Main with two semesters of jurisprudence. During the summer semester of 1919, Fromm studied at the Univer...
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- Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
- The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
- Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
- Man always dies before he is fully born.
- We all dream we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
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_typeerror_: erich fromm - the sane societyLauorenjauregui: "immature love says: 'i love you because i need you.' mature love says 'i need you because i love you.'" -erich fromm
Rosemariewags: next week in 'solidarity in theory and action': brenda lyshaug's solidarity without sisterhood?, erich fromm's the art of loving, and bell hooks all about love.
Dstorymoon: the normalized madness continues unabated. where are my pocket posies? “just as there is a folie à deux there is a folie à millions. — the fact that millions of people share the same mental pathology does not make these people sane.” ~erich fromm, the sane society (1955)
Gracemw32518098: the real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.,erich fromm,ego, freedom, materialism, poverty,
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