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  <name><![CDATA[Erich Fromm]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Correct date of birth - March 23, 1900

Fromm's theory is a rather unique blend of Freud and Marx. Freud, of course, emphasized the unconscious, biological drives, repression, and so on. In other words, Freud postulated that our characters were determined by biology. Marx, on the other hand, saw people as determined by their society, and most especially by their economic systems.

He added to this mix of two deterministic systems something quite foreign to them: The idea of freedom. He allows people to transcend the determinisms that Freud and Marx attribute to them. In fact, Fromm makes freedom the central characteristic of human nature!

There are, Fromm points out, examples where determinism alone operates. A good example of nearly pure biological determinism, ala Freud, is animals (at least simple ones). Animals don't worry about freedom -- their instincts take care of everything. Woodchucks, for example, don't need career counseling to decide what they are going to be when they grow up: They are going to be woodchucks!]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Spinoza, Eckhart, Kierkegaard, Marx, Freud, Alfred Weber]]></influences>  <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Frankfurt am Main</hometown>  <born_at>12/13/1901</born_at>  <died_at>03/18/1980</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Art of Loving: An Enquiry into the Nature of Love]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Escape from Freedom]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Sane Society]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Art of Being]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Marx's Concept of Man]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Psychoanalysis and Religion: The Terry Lectures Series]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales &amp; Myths]]></title>
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