Erich Fromm On The Fear Of Freedom

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The frightened individual seeks for somebody or something to tie his selfto; he cannot bear to be his own individual self any longer, and he tries frantically to get rid of it and to feel security again by the elimination of this burden: the self.

In The Fear of Freedom , Erich Fromm warns that the price of community is indeed high, and it is the individual who pays. Heleaves a vastly increased understanding of the human character in relation to soci...