Sigmund Freud's Mission: An Analysis of His Personality and Influence

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Harper, 1959 - Psychology - 120 pages
In this book Erich Fromm repeats a number of criticisms of Freud that he has made in the past, as well as adding some new interpretations. The first six chapters are devoted to an evaluation of Freud's personality and are entitled: Freud's Passion for Truth and His Courage; His Relationship to His Mother; Self-Confidence and Insecurity; Freud's Relationship to Women; Love; His Dependence on Men; His Relationship to his Father; Freud's Authoritarianism. The last four chapters are more general, and explain the title of the book. The chapter headings are: Freud, the World Reformer; The Quasi-Political Character of the Psychoanalytic Movement; Freud's Religious and Political Convictions; Summary and Conclusions.

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FREUDS PASSION FOR TRUTH AND HIS COURAGE
1
HIS RELATIONSHIP TO HIS MOTHER SELF CONFIDENCE AND INSECURITY
10
FREUDS RELATIONSHIP TO WOMEN Love
19
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Psychologist and philosopher Erich Fromm was born in Frankfurt, Germany on March 23, 1900. He received a Ph.D in sociology from the University of Heidelberg in 1922 and finished his psychoanalytical training at the Psychoanalytical Institute in Berlin in 1930. He started his own clinical practice and joined the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research. In 1934, he moved to New York and became a professor at Columbia University. In 1950, he moved to Mexico City and became a professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, where he created a psychoanalytic section at the medical school. He retired from there in 1965 and moved to Muralto, Switzerland in 1974. Throughout his life, Fromm maintained a clinical practice and wrote books. His writings were notable for both their social and political commentary and their philosophical and psychological underpinnings. He became known for linking human personality types with socioeconomic and political structures. His most popular book, The Art of Loving, was first published in 1956 and became an international bestseller. He died on March 18, 1980.

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