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Fromm, Erich
Geb. Frankfurt am Main 23. 3. 1900, gest. Muralto (bei Locarno) 18. 3. 1980, amerikan.
Psychoanalytiker dt. Herkunft. Zunächst am Frankfurter Institut für Sozialforschung;
emigrierte 1934 in die USA (1940 eingebürgert). Als Kritiker S. Freuds einer der
Hauptvertreter der ›Neopsychoanalyse‹; betonte auf neomarxist. Grundlage die
Bedeutung von soziokulturellen Faktoren.
Werke
Psychoanalyse und Ethik (1947), Die Kunst des Liebens (1956), Sigmund Freuds Sendung
(1959), Anatomie der menschl. Destruktivität (1975).
(c) LexiROM (Meyers Lexikonverlag).
Fromm, Erich (1900-1980)
psychoanalyst, best known for his application of psychoanalytic theory to social and
cultural problems. Born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, he was educated at the Universities
of Heidelberg and Munich and at the Psychoanalytic Institute in Berlin. He emigrated to
the United States in 1934 when the Nazis came to power.
Fromm was recognized as an important leader of contemporary psychoanalysis. According to
his views, specific personality types are related to specific socioeconomic patterns. He
broke away from biologically orientated theories to see human beings as products of their
culture and contributed important theories on mass behaviour and the origins of Fascism.
He also felt that attempts should be made to create harmony between the drives of the
individual and the society in which the individual lives. Fromm's many publications
include The Fear of Freedom (1941), Man for Himself (1947), The Forgotten Language (1951),
The Sane Society (1955), The Art of Loving (1956), Sigmund Freud's Mission (1956), Beyond
the Chains of Illusion (1962), The Heart of Man (1964), and The Anatomy of Human
Destructiveness (1973).
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