A biography of erich fromm and his theory on irrationality of mass behavior

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A place for enthusiasts. He was also attributed as a social behaviorist, a philosopher and a Marxist.

Igor Shafarevich

The single child of a wine merchant, Fromm was reportedly a somewhat intolerable, phobic child. The fact that his mother was afflicted with depression and his father was characteristically a temperamental man did not really create an ideal childhood situation for him.

Although he was given a conservative and pluralistic upbringing and education, Fromm eventually turned out to be a rebel, forsaking his religion to become an atheist.

He completely debunked religion as the basis of strife, discord and inequality. Religion spewed hatred and since he belonged to an insecure era caught in between the First World War and the coming Second World Warhe felt it best to give up religion in favor of more humanitarian and realistic philosophies.

He started out with sociology and found his true calling in psychology.

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It is perhaps ironically noteworthy that when he was a young boy he considered many Jewish intellectuals as his exemplars. Some of them were the neo-Kantian Hermann Cohen the free thinking non-interventionist, the eminent Talmudist Rabbi Nehemia Nobel who was proficient in psychoanalytic literature as well, and Rabbi Salman Baruch Rabinkow, a Jewish mystic with a compelling approval for socialism.

Thus predictably his first job was as a rabbi. After finishing his graduation in legal theory from the University of Frankfurt inFromm enrolled himself in sociology at the Heidelberg University.

Under the tutelage of the eminent sociologist Alfred Webber he earned his PhD in the year Sometime in the middle of the s Fromm changed his academic direction towards psychology. An opportunity to undertake training in psychoanalysis came to him through contact with Frieda Reichmann, who eventually became his wife in However, the marriage turned out to be an unsuccessful one.

It was not just because Frieda was ten years older than him, but also because she had once been his psychoanalyst thereby making spontaneity and innocence absent from their married relationship. Despite their divorce Fromm and Frieda maintained a cordial personal and professional relationship.

In the year he joined Columbia University and also did a stint at lecturing in Yale University and Bennington College between the years to While Horney explicated psychoanalytical theories to Fromm, the latter enlightened her on various sociological models.

This isolation from society and its people, along with the uncertainties and doubts involved, enables to illuminate the manner and ways in which the general public seek the sanctuary and incentives of totalitarian societies like fascism.

Escape from Freedom is perceived as one of the origins of political psychology. Fromm arrived in U. He recognized an inconsistency between his initial theories before and after the First World War.

In his pre-WWI theories Freud explains human urges as a struggle between needs and suppression. According to Freud both these impulses merge and clash inside the individual. Eros signifies all the life affirming qualities like love, sexuality, imagination, pride, and progeneration.

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Thanatos on the other hand refers to the life denying negative impulses of violence, brutality, annihilation and death. Fromm accused Freud and other neo-Freudians of never admitting the inconsistencies in the two hypotheses.

Fromm believed that the Freudian explanation of the human consciousness as conflicts of two extremes was confined and restricting. Fromm denounced him as a misogynist bound by his inability to reason beyond the patriarchal norms of his time.

Nevertheless Fromm held Freud and his achievements in great reverence because despite the numerous loopholes in his theories Fromm maintained that Freud together with the likes of Albert Einstein and Karl Marx was among the harbingers of the modern era.

His book called The Sane Society which came out in was inspired by the early teachings of Marx. He considered the latter as mechanizing and life denying whose ultimate consequence was a worldwide case of isolation.

He endorsed the early teachings of Marx and became known as one of the forefathers of socialist humanism, propagating his philosophies to Western societies.

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