“The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die - although it is the tragic fate of most individuals to di...”
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<p><b><i>The Sane Society </i>is a continuation and extension of the brilliant psychiatric concepts Erich Fromm first formulated in <i>Escape from Freedom</i>; it is also, in many ways, an answer to Freud's <i>Civilization and its Discontents</i>.</b><br><br> Fromm examines man's escape into overconformity and the danger of robotism in contemporary industrial society: modern humanity has, he maintains, been alienated from the world of their own creation. Here Fromm offers a complete and systematic exploration of his "humanistic psychoanalysis." In so doing, he counters the profound pessimism for our future that Freud expressed and sets forth the goals of a society in which the emphasis is on each person and on the social measures designed to further function as a responsible individual.</p>
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