Erich Fromm

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Erich Fromm

Full Name: Erich Seligmann Fromm
Nationality: German-born American
Profession: Psychologist, Psychoanalyst, Humanist Philosopher, Social Psychologist
Born: March 23, 1900 – Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Died: March 18, 1980 – Muralto, Switzerland

About Him

Erich Fromm was a renowned psychoanalyst and social philosopher who combined psychology with sociology and humanist thought. He explored how social structures and economic systems affect human behavior, freedom, and mental health. After emigrating from Nazi Germany to the United States in the 1930s, he became a leading figure in critical social psychology and humanistic psychoanalysis.

Key Contributions

  • Humanist Psychology: Fromm emphasized the importance of love, freedom, and individuality in achieving psychological well-being.

  • Influential Works: His best-known books include Escape from Freedom (1941), which examines the tension between individuality and authoritarianism, and The Art of Loving (1956), a classic exploration of love as a skill that can be developed.

  • Social Critique: He critically analyzed modern capitalist society, warning about alienation, consumerism, and the loss of genuine human connection.

  • Legacy: Fromm’s work influenced psychology, philosophy, political theory, and theology, shaping humanistic approaches to mental health and social critique.

Articles by the author

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Erich Fromm

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Erich Fromm

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

Erich Fromm

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.

Erich Fromm

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Erich Fromm

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

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Man always dies before he is fully born.

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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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Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.

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Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

Erich Fromm

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

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In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

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Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.

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Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

Erich Fromm

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

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The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

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The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

Erich Fromm

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

Erich Fromm

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

Erich Fromm