He would later describe his family as “highly neurotic.”
He began looking for answers to his questions in the writings of thinkers including Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx.
In 1924, he began studyingpsychoanalysisat the University of Frankfurt before moving to the Berlin Institute of Psychoanalysis.
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The marriage dissolved after four years.
Career
Fromm helped found the Frankfurt Psychoanalytic Institute, where he lectured from 1929 to 1932.
He remarried again in 1953 and continued to teach in Mexico.
He also taught at other schools, including Michigan State University and New York University.
Mans 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.
Fromm also had a major influence onhumanistic psychology.
He believed life was a contradiction since humans are both a part of nature and separate from it.
Beyond the Chains of Illusion, 1962.
Selected Publications
Fromm, E. (1947)Man for Himself.
An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics.New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston; 1947.
Fromm, E.Beyond the Chains of Illusion: My Encounter with Marx and Freud.
New York: Simon and Schuster; 1962.
Funk, R.Important dates in Erich Fromms life.
The International Erich Fromm Society.
Smith, M. K.Erich Fromm: Alienation, being and education.
Updated May 29, 2012.
The International Erich Fromm Society.Original writings since 1970.
