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
differences brotherhood identity
If I perceive in another person mainly the surface, I perceive mainly the differences,that which separates us. If I penetrate to the core, i perceive our identity, the fact of our brotherhood. This relatedness from center to center - instead of that from periphery to periphery - is 'central relatedness'.
giving-up mean self
Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty.... Well-being means, finally, to drop one's Ego, to give up greed, to cease chasing after preservation and the aggrandizement of the Ego, to be and to experience one's self in the act of being, not in having, preserving, coveting, using.
best-love someone-you-love moments
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
effort greed needs
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
letting-go spiritual courage
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
ideas numbers culture
Many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that the problem of mental health in a society is only that of the number of 'unadjusted' individuals, and not of a possible unadjustment of the culture itself.
follows immature love loved mature
Infantile love follows the principle: ""I love because I am loved."" Mature love follows the principle: ""I am loved because I love."" Immature love says: ""I love you because I need you."" Mature love says: ""I need you because I love you.
abolition human return socialism
Socialism is the abolition of human self-alienation, the return of man as a real human being.
himself psychic task tolerate
The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
mean judging understanding
Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.
art effort art-of-loving
Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.
love romantic judging
Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.
people doe sanity
That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
mean doe license
Freedom does not mean license.