Escape from Freedom

Erich Fromm

1941

We see that the process of growing human freedom has the same dialectic character that we have noticed in the process of individual growth. On the one hand it is a process of growing strength and integration, mastery of nature, growing power of human reason, and growing solidarity with other human beings. But on the other hand this growing…

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Erich Fromm

1900–1980

Social psychologist Erich Fromm was born in Frankfurt am Main to Orthodox parents. He studied law at Frankfurt University, as well as sociology and philosophy at the University of Heidelberg. Fromm was introduced to psychoanalysis in 1924; he practiced in Berlin, where he was involved with the Institute for Social Research, later known as the Frankfurt School. When the Nazis came to power, Fromm moved to New York and taught psychology at several American universities until 1950, when he relocated to Mexico. Always politically active, Fromm was a member of the American Socialist Party and spoke out against the nuclear arms race and the Vietnam War.

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