Erich Fromm Biography

Erich Fromm, Psychologist
Born asErich Seligmann Fromm
Occup.Psychologist
FromUSA
SpousesHenny Gurland (1930–1933)
Frieda Reichmann (1934–1950)
Annis Freeman (1951–1960)
BornMarch 23, 1900
Frankfurt am Main, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, Germany
DiedMarch 18, 1980
Muralto, Locarno, Ticino, Switzerland
CauseHeart failure
Aged79 years
Erich Fromm was born on March 23, 1900, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Orthodox Jewish parents, Naphtali as well as Rosa Fromm. He was elevated in a household that valued the relevance of education as well as intellectual quests. Throughout his life, Fromm would integrate his social and spiritual heritage with his psychoanalytic concepts, and his early direct exposure to faith and philosophy aided shape his future academic interests.

Fromm studied regulation briefly at the University of Frankfurt before going after a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Heidelberg in 1922. It was throughout this time that he met participants of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research, that would later on apply considerable impact on his job. In 1925, Fromm's attraction with psychoanalysis led him to Berlin, where he trained under famous psychoanalyst Hanns Sachs.

His journey to the United States started in 1934, culminating in a teaching placement at Columbia University, where he worked alongside esteemed psychologist Karen Horney, with whom Fromm became specifically close. His work there noted the start of a lengthy as well as fruitful job in psychiatry as well as social psychology.

Fromm's job spanned years, touching on various areas of competence, consisting of authoritarianism, the function of love in human life, and also the effects of capitalism on self-actualization. His initial book, "Escape from Freedom" (1941), looked into the reasons behind the increase of totalitarian routines, especially in Germany. The book, highlighting people' tendency to look for haven responsible frameworks, developed Fromm as a considerable intellectual figure of his time.

Fromm's humanistic point of view concerned the center in "Man for Himself" (1947), where he posited that humans might rise above their second-nature drives and also talked about the role of love in human life thoroughly. This emphasis on love caused one of his best-known jobs, "The Art of Loving" (1956), which continues to be a prominent exam of love and also connections today.

In action to the social modifications during the 1960s, Fromm released "The Revolution of Hope" (1968), a phone call to activity for extreme humanism to replace the technological as well as worldly worths common in society. He continued his critique of social systems in "Social Character in a Mexican Village" (1970), based on his fieldwork in Mexico.

Throughout his notable job, Erich Fromm left an extensive impact on areas as varied as sociology, psychology, principles, and also political theory. He was the recipient of numerous awards, consisting of the Sigmund Freud Award (1965) from the City of Vienna as well as the Humanist of the Year Award (1970) from the American Humanist Association.

Erich Fromm was married three times, initially to Frieda Reichman, then to Henny Gurland, and lastly to Annis Freeman. Fromm died in Muralto, Switzerland, on March 18, 1980, leaving behind a tradition of insight, understanding, and expect humanity.

Our collection contains 41 quotes who is written / told by Erich, under the main topics: Death - Dreams - Mom - Society.

Related authors: Philo (Philosopher), Karen Horney (Psychologist), Harry Stack Sullivan (Psychologist), Sigmund Freud (Psychologist), Lawrence Taylor (Athlete), Abraham Maslow (Psychologist)

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41 Famous quotes by Erich Fromm

Small: Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much
"Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much"
Small: Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others
"Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others"
Small: Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of al
"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"
Small: The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robo
"The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots"
Small: Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says I need you because I love you.
"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"
Small: Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to
"Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted"
Small: If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a sy
"If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism"
Small: The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal
"The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal"
Small: Authority is not a quality one person has, in the sense that he has property or physical qualities.
"Authority is not a quality one person "has," in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him"
Small: The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love
"The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent"
Small: The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically gi
"The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man"
Small: As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask
"As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask"
Small: The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science
"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science"
Small: Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either
"Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either"
Small: Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought
"Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought"
Small: Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning a
"Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies"
Small: What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular an
"What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal"
Small: We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to
"We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them"
Small: We all dream we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep min
"We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake"
Small: To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate
"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime"
Small: To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable
"To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable"
Small: There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which p
"There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue"
Small: There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself
"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself"
Small: The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have
"The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have"
Small: Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies
"Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies"
Small: Mans main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most importan
"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality"
Small: Mans biological weakness is the condition of human culture
"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture"
Small: Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve
"Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve"
Small: Man always dies before he is fully born
"Man always dies before he is fully born"
Small: Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separa
"Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self"
Small: Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence
"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence"
Small: Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can exp
"Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market"
Small: Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requi
"Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality"
Small: Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ev
"Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction"
Small: Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties
"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties"
Small: Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand
"Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world"
Small: In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is tha
"In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead"
Small: In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two
"In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two"
Small: If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
"If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?"
Small: One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often
"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often"
Small: Mothers love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved
"Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved"