Erich Fromm

Erich Fromm: Encyclopedia II - Erich Fromm - Life

Erich Fromm started his studies in 1918 at the University of Frankfurt am Main with two semesters of jurisprudence. During the summer semester of 1919, Fromm studied at the University of Heidelberg, where he switched from studying jurisprudence to studying sociology under Alfred Weber (brother of Max Weber), Karl Jaspers, and Heinrich Rickert. Fromm received his Ph.D. in sociology from Heidelberg in 1922, and completed his psychoanalytical training in 1930 at the Psychoanalytical Institute in Berlin. In that same year, he began his own clini ...

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Character structure - On-line Information

Erich Fromm: Encyclopedia - Love

Love has several different meanings in English, from something that gives a little pleasure ("I loved that meal") to something one would die for (patriotism, pairbonding). It can describe an intense feeling of affection, an emotion or an emotional state. In ordinary use, it usually refers to interpersonal love. Probably due to its psychological relevance, love is one of the most common themes in art. Love might best be defined as acting intentionally, in sympathethic response to ot ...

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Love - Cultural views

Love - Religious views

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Erich Fromm: Encyclopedia - Biophilia

Biophilia is the love (philia) of Nature (bio). E. O. Wilson popularized the word in a book of the same name published by Harvard University Press, 1984. He used it to describe what he asserts to be an instinctive bond between human beings and other species. He defined biophilia as “the connections that human beings subconsciously seek with the rest of life”, and argue ...

Erich Fromm: Encyclopedia - American Humanist Association

The American Humanist Association is an American Humanist group serving both secular and religious humanists, but tending to favor secularism. Founded in 1941, the AHA has served its members by initiating social reforms and other programs. Humanists and the American Humanist Association were among the first to advocate for and/or introduce many significant developments in the fields of human rights, the control of population growth, sexual equality, civil liberties, educ ...

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Erich Fromm: Encyclopedia - Johann Jakob Bachofen

The Swiss anthropologist and sociologist Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815 – 1887), is most often connected with his theory of matriarchy, or Mutterrecht, the title of his seminal 1861 book Mother Right: An Investigation of the Religious and Juridical Character of Matriarchy in the Ancient World. This presented a radically new view of the role of women in a broad range of ancient societies. Bachofen assembled documentation meant to demonstrate that motherhood is the source of human society, religion, morality, and decorum an ...

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Johann Jakob Bachofen - External link

Erich Fromm: Encyclopedia - Weimar culture

Weimar Republic refers to the years (1919-1933) in German history. Politically and economically, the nation struggled with the terms and reparations imposed by the Treaty of Versailles (1918) that ended World War I, and endured punishing levels of inflation. 1920s Berlin was at the hectic center of the Weimar Culture. The fourteen years of the Weimar were also marked by explosive intellectual productivity. German artists made significant cultural contributions in the fields of literature, art, architecture, music, dance, drama, and the new medium of the motion picture. Political theorist Ernst Bloc ...

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Weimar culture - Notable Cultural Figures of the Weimar Era

Erich Fromm: Encyclopedia - Abraham Maslow

Abraham Maslow (April 1, 1908 – June 8, 1970) was an American psychologist. He is mostly noted today for his proposal of a hierarchy of human needs. Abraham Maslow - Biography. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Maslow was the first of seven children of Jewish immigrants from Russia. His parents were uneducated, but they insisted that he study law. At first, Abraham acceded to their wishes and enrolled in the City College of New York. However, after three semesters, he transferred to Cornell then back to CCNY.Af ...

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Erich Fromm: Encyclopedia - David Keirsey

Dr. David West Keirsey (* August 31, 1921 in Oklahoma) is an internationally renowned psychologist, a professor emeritus at California State University, Fullerton, and the author of several books. In his most popular publications Please Understand Me (co-authored by Marilyn Bates), and the revised and expanded second volume Please Understand Me II he lays out a system of personality classification known as the Keirsey Temperament Sorter, which links human behavior to 4 temperaments and 16 types. Both volumes of Including:

David Keirsey - Education and professional experience

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Erich Fromm: Encyclopedia - Critical theory Frankfurt School

Critical theory, in sociology and philosophy, is shorthand for critical theory of society or critical social theory, a label used by the Frankfurt School, i.e., members of the Institute for Social Research of the University of Frankfurt, their intellectual and social network, and those influenced by them intellectually, to describe their own work, oriented toward radical social change, in contradistinc ...

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Erich Fromm: Encyclopedia - Cuernavaca

Cuernavaca is the capital city of the state of Morelos in Mexico. The city, whose original name was Cuauhnahuac, is also the municipal seat of the municipality of Cuernavaca. Cuernavaca is located about 85 km. (50 miles) south of Mexico City on the M-95 freeway. It is known as "the city of eternal spring" because of its consistent 27 °C year-round weather. Cuernavaca is truly in the heart of Mexico, and is surrounded by some of the most beautiful and culturally rich regions of the country. Cuernavaca - Tourism. Including:

Erich Fromm: Encyclopedia - Critical thinking

Critical thinking is a mental process of analyzing or evaluating information, particularly statements or propositions that are offered as true. It is a process of reflecting upon the meaning of statements, examining the offered evidence and reasoning, and forming judgments about the facts. Such information may be gathered from observation, experience, reasoning, or communication. Critical thinking has its basis in intellectual values that go beyond subject matter divisions and include: clarity, a ...

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Erich Fromm: Encyclopedia - Personality psychology

Personality psychology is a branch of psychology which studies personality and individual difference processes - that which makes us into a person. One emphasis in personality psychology is on trying to create a coherent picture of a person and all his or her major psychological processes. Another emphasis views personality psychology as the study of individual differences. These two views work together in practice. Personality psychologists are interested in a broad view of the individual's psychological processes. This often leads t ...

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Erich Fromm: Encyclopedia - Albert Ellis

Albert Ellis (born September 27, 1913) is an American cognitive psychologist who in 1955 developed rational-emotive therapy, an approach to psychotherapy holding that inappropriate negative emotions arise not from events themselves, but rather from people's irrational interpretations of these events (the ABC theory of emotions). Ellis founded and recently functioned as the president emeritus of the New York City-based Albert Ellis Institute until its board removed him from all official functions in September 2005. Ellis currently work ...

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Erich Fromm: Encyclopedia II - Psychology of religion - Psychoanalytical studies

Psychology of religion - Sigmund Freud: Oedipus complex illusion. Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) gave explanations of the genesis of religion in his various writings. In Totem and Taboo, he applied the idea of the Oedipus complex (involving unresolved sexual feelings of, for example, a son toward his mother and hostility toward his father) and postulated its emergence in the primordial stage of human development. In Moses and Monotheism, Freud reconstructed biblical history in accord with his ge ...

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