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A vast sector of modern advertising... does not appeal to reason but to emotion; like any other kind of hypnoid suggestion, it tries to impress its objects emotionally and then make them submit intellectually.
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The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forced—by what? By a system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and which makes man its appendix.
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Birth: | 23rd March, 1900 |
Death: | 18th March, 1980 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Philosopher, Psychoanalyst, Psychologist, Sociologist |
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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