Erich Fromm Quotes


Actually, if you take the average American, and studies have shown that, he is really concerned only with private affairs; that is to say, with his health, his money and family affairs.


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Fromm, Erich. Interview by Mike Wallace. The Mike Wallace Interview, American Broadcasting Company, 25 May 1958.

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Erich Fromm
Erich Fromm
  • Born: March 23, 1900
  • Died: March 18, 1980
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Psychologist

Erich Seligmann Fromm was a German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was a German Jew who fled the Nazi regime and settled in the US. He was one of the founders of The William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology in New York City and was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.