If you have to explain it, it ain't working.

Milton Glaser, 1929 – 2020
Erich Fromm biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Erich Fromm

Author Name:

Erich Fromm

Born As:

Erich Pinchas Fromm

Other Names:

Erich Pinchas Fromm

Born:

23 Mar 1900

Died:

18 Mar 1980




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Psychoanalyst                          
Selected Works:

Escape from Freedom - US., Fear of Freedom - UK. - 1941
Man for himself, an inquiry into the psychology of ethics - 1947
Psychoanalysis and Religion - 1950
Forgotten language; an introduction to the understanding of dreams, fairy tales, and myths - 1951
The Sane Society - 1955
The Art of Loving - 1956
Sigmund Freud's mission; an analysis of his personality and influence - 1959
Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism - 1960
May Man Prevail? An inquiry into the facts and fictions of foreign policy - 1961
Marx's Concept of Man - 1961
Beyond the Chains of Illusion: my encounter with Marx and Freud - 1962
The Dogma of Christ and Other Essays on Religion, Psychology and Culture - 1963
The Heart of Man, its genius for good and evil - 1964
Socialist Humanism - 1965
You Shall Be as Gods: a radical interpretation of the Old Testament and its tradition - 1966
The Revolution of Hope, toward a humanized technology - 1968
The Nature of Man - 1968
The Crisis of Psychoanalysis - 1970
Social character in a Mexican village; a sociopsychoanalytic study - Fromm & Maccoby - 1970
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness - 1973
To Have or to Be? - 1976
Greatness and Limitation of Freud's Thought - 1979
On Disobedience and other essays - 1984
The Art of Being - 1993
The Art of Listening - 1994
On Being Human - 1997.                          
                          
                          
Fromm examined the life and work of Sigmund Freud at length. He identified a discrepancy between early and later Freudian theory: namely that prior to World War I, Freud described human drives as a tension between desire and repression, but after the war's conclusion, he framed human drives as a struggle between biologically-universal Life and Death - Eros and Thanatos - instincts. Fromm charged Freud and his followers with never acknowledging the contradictions between the two theories.
He also criticized Freud's dualistic thinking. According to Fromm, Freudian descriptions of human consciousness as struggles between two poles was narrow and limiting. Fromm also condemned him as a misogynist unable to think outside the patriarchal milieu of early 20th century Vienna. However, Fromm expressed a great respect for Freud and his accomplishments, in spite of these failings.