To live is to dream and to die is to awaken.
Erich Fromm Quotes
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
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| Birth: | 23rd March, 1900 |
| Death: | 18th March, 1980 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Philosopher, Psychoanalyst, Psychologist, Sociologist |
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Erich Seligmann Fromm was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He was a German-born American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, author, and humanistic philosopher. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Heidelberg in 1922. In 1934, he moved to USA. In 1946, he co-founded the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology. He taught as a professor of psychology at Michigan State University from 1957 to 1961 and as an adjunct professor of psychology at the graduate division of Arts and Sciences at New York University after 1962. Beginning with his first seminal work of 1941, Escape from Freedom. His second important work, Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics. Fromm's most popular book was The Art of Loving, an international bestseller first published in 1956.
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