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The Essential Fromm

Life Between Having and Being

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The Essential Fromm

By: Erich Fromm, Rainer Funk - editor
Narrated by: Jim Seybert
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Essays on human alienation, mode of existence, consumerism, narcissism, and more from "both a psychologist of penetration and a writer of ability" (Chicago Tribune).

As Erich Fromm points out, ours is "a life between having and being"—between mere having and healthy being, between destructiveness and creativity, between narcissism and productive self-understanding, between passivity and the joy of positive activity.

The alternatives of having and being are basic orientations of our character and determine our behavior. The mostly unpublished and unknown texts featured in The Essential Fromm encapsulate the psychologist's views on the fulfilling life. To put down roots yet remain free is what the late Erich Fromm called the art of being. It is the secret of happiness.

©1993 The Estate of Erich Fromm (P)2024 Tantor Consciousness & Thought Movements Philosophy Happiness
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