« The individual may also become entirely dependent on the social forms in which he lives, being able to live only by "conforming" to others, only by doing as "everyone"; then his doubt and anxiety will diminish because they will think, feel like millions of others Cinema, radio, television, magazines, advertising, make sure to offer us the models to which we must conform so as not to feel alone »
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Erich Fromm
Alienated society and healthy society |
Erich Fromm
Alienated society and healthy society
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« If I truly love one person, I love everyone else, I love the world, I love life. If I can say to someone: I love you, I must be able to say: in you I love everyone, through you I love the world, in you I love myself too. »
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Erich Fromm
The art of loving |
Erich Fromm
The art of loving
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« Birth is not an act. It's a process. The purpose of life is to be born in a plenary way and its tragedy is that most of us die before we are even born. To live is to be born at every moment. Death occurs when the birth stops. Physiologically, our cellular system is an uninterrupted birth process. Psychologically, many of us, at some point, cease to be born. Some are totally stillborn, they pursue a physiological life while mentally their desire would be the return within the mother, to the earth, to darkness, to death. (...) Many more are making progress on the path of life, but without succeeding in cutting the umbilical cord. They remain symbiotically connected to mother, father, family, race, position, money, gods, etc. They never come to light as fully themselves, so they never succeed in being born fully. The answer to the problem of existence represented by an attempt at regression can take on various forms. But they all have in common the fact that they lead to failure and suffering. »
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Erich Fromm
Zen Buddhism and psychoanalysis |
Erich Fromm
Zen Buddhism and psychoanalysis
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