Erich Fromm
Erich Fromm (1900–1980) was a German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, philosopher, and humanist thinker. He was born in Frankfurt to a Jewish family and studied sociology, psychology, and philosophy in Heidelberg. He was associated with the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory and was deeply involved in linking psychoanalysis with social theory and humanistic ethics.
Fromm believed that human psychology could not be understood without the context of the society in which a person lived. His best-known work, Escape from Freedom (1941), analyzes how individuals in modern society have turned to authoritarian ideologies to escape the burden of personal freedom. In The Art of Loving, The Healthy Society, and To Have or To Be, he promoted the ideas of authentic love, individual maturity, and ethical humanism.
For Fromm, the ideal was a social transformation that allowed for the development of man as a free, creative, and responsible being. He was also active in political life, advocating peace, prudence, and democratic socialism. After the Nazis came to power, he emigrated to the United States, where he continued his academic and therapeutic career.
He died in Switzerland in 1980, leaving a deep mark on humanistic psychology and social philosophy.
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Revolucija nade: Za humanizaciju tehnike
A humanistic study by Erich Fromm. The author analyzes the dangers of a mechanized society and offers a vision of the humanization of technology, the return of hope, active resistance to alienation, and faith in human potential.
S onu stranu okova iluzije: Moj susret s Marxom i Freudom
In the autobiographical-philosophical work "Beyond the Chains of Illusion", Erich Fromm depicts his own intellectual development through his encounter with the ideas of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud.
S onu stranu okova iluzije: Moj susret s Marxom i Freudom
Fromm synthesizes the ideas of Marx and Freud, demonstrating that both thinkers share a revolutionary vision of human liberation from social illusions and unconscious constraints.
Umijeće ljubavi
A cult work by Erich Fromm. The author does not view love as a mere emotion, but as a skill and art that requires knowledge, effort, maturity, self-discipline, and constant work on one's own personal development.
Veličina i granice Freudove misli
In The Greatness and Limits of Freudian Thought, Erich Fromm analyzes Freud's contribution to understanding man and critically exposes the limitations of his theory, especially its biologic and authoritarian aspects.
Veličina i granice Freudove misli
Fromm critically evaluates Freud's legacy, praising his revolutionary method of uncovering the unconscious while also challenging his mechanistic, patriarchal, and pessimistic view of human nature.
Zdravo društvo
Erich Fromm explores what makes a society psychologically healthy and what makes it sick. The book represents the crowning achievement of Fromm's social and political philosophy, in which he favors a so-called humane, democratic socialism.
Zdravo društvo
In the book Healthy Society, Fromm tried to show that life in a democracy of the XX. century represents another type of escape from freedom. The analysis of this very escape, in which alienation is the central concept, forms a large part of this book.