Erich Fromm
German-born American psychoanalyst and social psychologist (1900 to 1980); author of Escape from Freedom (1941).
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Modern freedom has made people independent but isolated, anxious and powerless
Freedom, though it has brought him independence and rationality, has made him isolated and, thereby, anxious and powerless.
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Modern freedom has made people independent but isolated, anxious and powerless
Freedom, though it has brought him independence and rationality, has made him isolated and, thereby, anxious and powerless.
Escape from Freedom (Rinehart, 1941) Said c. 1941
Freedom from constraints is not the same as positive freedom to
“Freedom from” is not identical with positive freedom, with “freedom to.”
Escape from Freedom (Rinehart, 1941) Said c. 1941
Positive freedom is the spontaneous activity of the whole, integrated personality
positive freedom consists in the spontaneous activity of the total, integrated personality.
Escape from Freedom (Rinehart, 1941) Said c. 1941
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Human nature, passions and anxieties are a cultural product
Man's nature, his passions, and anxieties are a cultural product
Escape from Freedom (Rinehart, 1941) Said c. 1941
Free speech means something only if we can have thoughts of our own
The right to express our thoughts, however, means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own
Escape from Freedom (Rinehart, 1941) Said c. 1941
Becoming a conforming automaton relieves people of feeling alone and anxious
The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more.
Escape from Freedom (Rinehart, 1941) Said c. 1941
The only productive answer to isolation is solidarity, love and work as a free individual
There is only one possible, productive solution for the relationship of individualized man with the world: his active solidarity with all men and his spontaneous activity, love and work, which unite him again with the world, not by primary ties but as a free and independent individual.
Escape from Freedom (Rinehart, 1941) Said c. 1941
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