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Erich Fromm was born in Frankfurt, Germany on 23rd March, 1900. The son of a Jewish wine trader, Fromm graduated from the University of Frankfurt in 1919. He studied sociology under Alfred Weber at Heidelberg and received his Ph.D. doctorate in 1922. Two years later Fromm joined with Frieda Reichmann, his future wife, to open the Therapeutikum in Heidelberg. Influenced by the ideas of Sigmund Freud, Fromm began writing on psychology.

In 1929 Fromm, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Karl Landauer and Heinrich Meng, established the South German Institute for Psychoanalysis in Frankfurt. After completing his psychoanalytic training Fromm opened his own practice in Berlin. In 1933 Karen Horney invited Fromm to lecture in Chicago.

An opponent of Adolf Hitler, Fromm emigrated to the United States in 1934. For the next five years he was employed at the Institute for Social Research in New York. After leaving the institute in 1939 Fromm taught at several universities and wrote books on psychology and politics including Escape from Freedom (1941), Man for Himself (1947), and Psychoanalysis and Religion (1951).

In The Sane Society (1955), Fromm argued for communitarian socialism. An active member of the Socialist Party, Fromm also published The Art of Loving (1956), Sigmund Freud's Mission (1959), Marx's Concept of Man (1961), The Dogma of Christ (1963) and The Heart of Man (1964, The Revolution of Hope (1968), The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973) and To Have Or to Be? (1976). Erich Fromm died on 18th March, 1980.

 

 

 

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