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Erich Fromm, né à Francfort le 23 mars 1900 et mort à Locarno le 18 mars 1980, est un sociologue et psychanalyste américain d'origine allemande.

Il est avec Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse et d'autres, un des premiers représentants de l'École de Francfort. Il a greffé, d'une façon critique et originale qui lui est propre, la thèse freudienne sur la réalité sociale qui s'est fait jour dans l'après-guerre.

Par ailleurs, Erich Fromm fut l'un des premiers penseurs du XXe siècle à parler de l'idée d'un revenu de base inconditionnel. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. mars 1900 – 18. mars 1980
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Erich Fromm Citations

“La raison découle du mélange de la pensée rationnelle et des sentiments. Si les deux fonctions se dissocient, la pensée se détériore en activité intellectuelle schizoïde et les sentiments en passions névrotiques autodestructrices.”

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Erich Fromm: Citations en anglais

“The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.”

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Erich Fromm livre The Art of Loving

Source: The Art of Loving

“if i am what i have, and i lose what i have, who then am i?”

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Variante: If I am what I have, and if I lose what I have, who then am I?

“There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.”

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Erich Fromm livre Psychoanalysis and Religion

Source: Psychoanalysis and Religion

“The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die - although it is the tragic fate of most individuals to die before they are born.”

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Erich Fromm The Sane Society

Source: The Sane Society

“To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness”

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“People do not see that the main question is not : "Am I loved?" which is to a large extent the question : "Am I approved of? Am I protected? Am I admired?" The main question is: "Can I love?”

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Source: Love, Sexuality and Matriarchy: About Gender

“We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent — people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.”

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Source: To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche

“Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with - the love of life”

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Source: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness

“Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.”

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“Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.”

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Source: Man for Himself (1947), Ch. 4 "Problems of Humanistic Ethics"

“Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.”

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Erich Fromm livre The Art of Loving

Source: The Art of Loving (1956), Ch. 2

“To be loved because of one's merit, because one deserves it, always leaves doubt; maybe I did not please the person whom I want to love me, maybe this, or that - there is always a fear that love could disappear.”

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Erich Fromm livre The Art of Loving

Source: The Art of Loving

“There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.”

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Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics

“Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a “standing in,” not a “falling for.” In the most general way, the active character of love can be described by stating that love is primarily giving, not receiving.”

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Erich Fromm livre The Art of Loving

Source: The Art of Loving

“The frightened individual seeks for somebody or something to tie his self
to; he cannot bear to be his own individual self any longer,
and he tries frantically to get rid of it and to feel security again by the elimination of this burden:
the self.”

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Erich Fromm livre Escape from Freedom

Source: Escape from Freedom

“If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.”

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Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics

“The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.”

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Erich Fromm livre Escape from Freedom

Source: Escape from Freedom (1941), Ch. 1

“Human history began with an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience.”

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"Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem" in On Disobedience and Other Essays (1981)

“I must also call your attention to the fact that it is crucial for my viewpoint that human behavior is to a large extent charged with a considerable amount of energy, but that in contrast to Freud I do not consider this energy to be sexual, but the vital energy within any organism which, according to biological laws, gives man the desire to live, and that means to adapt himself to the social necessities of his society. To go back to what I consider to be the misunderstanding, it has never been my position that society only deforms or manifests that which is already there. If we make the distinction between human necessities in general and human desires in particular then indeed, society creates particular desires which, however, follow the general laws of the necessities rooted in human nature.”

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Human Nature and Social Theory (1969)

“His concept of the anal character as one that has not reached maturity is in fact a sharp criticism of bourgeois society of the nineteenth century, in which the qualities of the anal character constituted the norm for moral behavior.”

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Erich Fromm livre To Have or to Be?

"To Have or to Be?" (2005) page 68

“All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual.”

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Erich Fromm livre The Art of Loving

Source: The Art of Loving (1956), Ch. 2

“Psychoanalysis, which interprets the human being as a socialized being, and the psychic apparatus as essentially developed and determined through the relationship of the individual to society, must consider it a duty to participate in the investigation of sociological problems to the extent the human being or his/her psyche plays any part at all.”

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"Psychoanalyse und Soziologie" (1929); published as "Psychoanalysis and Sociology" as translated by Mark Ritter, in Critical Theory and Society : A Reader (1989) edited by S. E. Bronner and D. M. Kellner

“The same polarity of the male and female principle exists in nature; not only, as is obvious in animals and plants, but in the polarity of the two fundamental functions, that of receiving and penetrating. It is the polarity of earth and rain, of the river and the ocean, of night and day, of darkness and light, of matter and spirit.”

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Erich Fromm livre The Art of Loving

Source: The Art of Loving (1956), Ch. 2

“Even good deeds by the enemy are considered a sign of particular devilishness, meant to deceive us and the world, while our bad deeds are necessary and justified by our noble goals which they serve.”

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Erich Fromm livre The Art of Loving

The Art of Loving (1956)
Contexte: The lack of objectivity, as far as foreign nations are concerned, is notorious. From one day to another, another nation is made out to be utterly depraved and fiendish, while one’s own nation stands for everything that is good and noble. Every action of the enemy is judged by one standard — every action of oneself by another. Even good deeds by the enemy are considered a sign of particular devilishness, meant to deceive us and the world, while our bad deeds are necessary and justified by our noble goals which they serve.

“Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.”

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Erich Fromm livre Escape from Freedom

Source: Escape from Freedom (1941), Ch. 4

“I believe that the man choosing progress can find a new unity through the full development of all his human forces, which are produced in three orientations. These can be presented separately or together: biophilia, love for humanity and nature, and independence and freedom.”

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Credo (1965)

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