Until his death in 1980, Erich Fromm was one of the world's leading psychoanalysts - yet some of his key works still remain unavailable in English. This book is one of Fromm's most important books on his understanding and practice of psychoanalysis, based on Freud's essential insight into the unconscious and is now available for the first time in the English language. Fromm replaces Freud's mechanistic-materialistic philosophy with a humanistic one, presenting a revision of psychoanalysis which is both humanistic and dialectical. Erich Fromm was a practising psychoanalyst, a social scientist and the author of "Escape from Freedom", "The Art of Loving" and "To Have or to Be?" Rainer Funk was Erich Fromm's last assistant.
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In famous psychoanalyst Fromm's view, the normal person in our society suffers chronic low-grade schizophrenia marked by a fear of feeling deeply, loneliness, anxiety, alienation and lack of creative activity. In these scholarly essays, many written between 1968 and 1970, Fromm identifies false consciousness, obsessional business and sexual promiscuity as ways people try to block out full self-awareness. He scathingly attacks radical neo-Freudian Herbert Marcuse, guru of the '60s counterculture, arguing that Marcuse's proposal to revive Freud's polymorphous sexuality represents a return to a childish, sybaritic existence. Fromm finds much to admire, however, in the thought of Wilhelm Reich and R. D. Laing. In one interesting paper, he interprets sadism as a form of intense personal relatedness involving one person's need to dominate and control another. In another essay, he holds that mystical experience need not be narcissistic and presents psychoanalysis as an avenue to enlightenment.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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