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
men order giving
The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for all men, of giving a satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
loving-nature society way
Society must be organized in such a way that mans social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes one with it.
religious sadness men
Having lost religious faith and the humanistic values bound up with it, he [man] concentrated on technical and material values and lost the capacity for deep emotional experiences, for the joy and sadness that accompany them.
women different equal
Women are equal because they are not different any more.
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.
life power men
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
love oneness erotic
Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness.
philosophy life-and-death people
People seek a new orientation, a new philosophy, one which is centered on the priorities of life-physically and spiritually-and not on the priorities of death.
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.
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.
men saint human-nature
Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.
men heaven vision
Modern man, if he dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store in the world, showing new things and gadgets, and himself having plenty of money with which to buy them.
sadism instinct sexuality
When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.
civilization way becoming
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.