Erich Fromm
Erich Fromm
Erich Seligmann Frommwas a German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth23 March 1900
CountryUnited States of America
sadism instinct sexuality
When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.
death sweet ifs
Death is never sweet, not even if it is suffered for the highest ideal.
love-life life-and-death life-is
Mobilizing the love of life is the only force that can defeat the love for the dead.
powerful father acceptance
When the theory of evolution destroyed the picture of God as the supreme Creator, confidence in God as the all-powerful Father of man fell with it, although many were able to combine a belief in God with the acceptance of the Darwinian theory.
faith real pregnancy
Faith is not a weak form of belief or knowledge; it is not faith in this or that; faith is the conviction about the not yet proven, the knowledge of the real possibility, the awareness of pregnancy.
differences giving joy
The essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic type person and him of great joy is the difference between get and give.
happiness men thrill
Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments.
practice feelings society
Every society by its own practice of living and by the mode of relatedness, of feelings, and perceiving, develops a system of categories which determines the forms of awareness.
responsibility love-is care
Love is the productive form of relatedness to others and to oneself. It implies responsibility, care, respect. If it isn't productive and respectful, it isn't love, but only fear masquerading as love.
life tragedy born
The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.
civilization way becoming
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.
boredom recognition found
Chronic boredom compensated or uncompensated constitutes one of the major psychopathological phenomena in contemporary technotronic society, although it is only recently that it has found some recognition.
political feelings politics
Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter.
sex mean people
What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.