When Fromm was 12-14 years old, he was deeply saddened and thought about two things: the suicide of his neighbor, an older female painter. and later the outbreak of World War 1
In Germany, nationalism was awakened. and violent expressions of hatred towards enemy nations Fromm later developed into a humanist thinker and pacifist.
Eric Fromm Loves reading and learning. During his youth he learned from many Jewish religious scholars. Some are socialist humanists and progressives.
He graduated with a Ph.D.sociology Went to study at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and developed myself into a psychoanalyst and teacher of psychoanalysis. He was inspired by the work of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud (1896-1939). Pioneers of that era
and it awakened in Fromm a strong power of freedom. He read and admired Karl Marx (1818-1883), especially the work of a very young man. Fromm supportssocialismI have always believed that Marx analyzed society more deeply than Freud.
Georg Grimm’s writings on Buddhism helped him renounce his belief in a personal god and turn to Zen Buddhism. with criticism of religion in general
Fromm, together with his wife Frieda Reichmann, a psychoanalyst, openedpsychotherapy centerHe lived in Heidelberg from 1924 to 1928, and later in Berlin in 1930. He also worked at the Institute for Social Research with scholars of the Critical Theory (Frankfert) school.
This group of theorists critically analyzed the ideas of Karl Marx. It is suggested that the traditional analysis that economics determines thought, consciousness, and social change is a “normative” interpretation.economy It is a one-sided determinant.
In fact, ideas, ideology, consciousness, and culture are matters that play a high role in social change. They applied Freud’s ideas to Marxism as well.
After Fromm contracted tuberculosis in 1931, he went to the Swiss sanatorium Davos and later separated from Frieda. When symptoms improve He immigrated to the United States as a university professor and researcher. To avoid returning to Germany under the rule of Hitler and the Nazis.
Members of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research also moved to New York. But Fromm clashed with other academics in the academy because Freud believed that conflicts in the mind and mind came from natural factors. Neglecting to look at social and cultural factors, Fromm later resigned from the Institute for Social Research.
Fromm’s book on escape from freedom English version Published in 1941, Fromm became a writer. Academics who are more accepted Criticizes the German people’s support for Hitler’s Nazi government. and people tend to believe in authoritarian governments
Because people are influenced by (psychological) society to want to obey. Do the same things rather than thinking on your own. He is both a famous and popular writer and speaker. Working alivePsychotherapistin New York, as a teacher and researcher at a university
In 1941, Fromm married Henny Gurland, a newspaper photographer who had fled the Nazis to the United States. Fromm moved his family to Mexico in 1950, believing the climate would ease his wife’s arthritis pain.
In Mexico, Fromm began training a group of doctors to becomepsychoanalystand works as a full-time professor at the University of Mexico.
Henny’s death in 1952 forced him to accept his limitations. or his own failures But he chose to be a lover of life and live a creative life. both for yourself and others
He supports humanist democratic socialism. Even though he supports ideas through books, articles, lectures, rather than joining the movement with any organization.
Later, Fromm had an affair with Annis Freeman, an American woman, widowed after her husband’s death. Annis is a very charming woman. sensual No career ambitions But it’s a good partner. She has a similar social background to him. Fromm is a good person to talk to and exchange with. She moved with him to Mexico from 1956 to 1973.
Fromm periodically travels to lecture in the United States, and he joins American political campaigns such as the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the peace movement. Against the US government who sent American soldiers to the Vietnam War
The birth of the processintellectualyoung people, both in civil rights anti-war women’s equal rightsDuring the 1950s and 1960s, progressive Western intellectuals, including Fromm, hoped that society could be changed for the better. During this period he wrote several books.
In 1974, Fromm and his wife moved from Mexico to Switzerland. In his 60s and 80s, he wrote and published many books. and continued to open his own psychoanalytic clinic. Fromm lived happily with his last wife for 27 years. He died in 1980 at the age of 80.
Fromm is the author of approximately 40 books and numerous articles. It is a work of social psychology and critical analysis of society and politics in an interdisciplinary way.
Later scholars viewed Fromm more as a social psychologist and interdisciplinary social scientist than a psychoanalyst. He criticized the modern industrial system both in Western capitalist countries and in Soviet Russia.
and propose to createHumanist socialismthat takes social equality and individual freedom into consideration together It is horizontal democratic socialism. that allows people to manage themselves in the form of cooperatives, communities, and various forms of people’s organizations
To liberate people from being oppressed into believing in false idolatry. Both economically and mentally.
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