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Escape from Freedom is a book by psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, first published in the United States by Farrar & Rinehart in 1941 with the title Escape from Freedom and a year later as The Fear of Freedom in UK by Routledge & Kegan Paul.
- Erich Fromm
- 1941
Escape From Freedom is Erich Fromm’s attempt at a synthesis of the two. The book explores themes of freedom and alienation, with a particular focus on deconstruction of the psychosocial conditions that facilitated the rise of Nazism. Suppression and Sublimation:
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It is surprising to see freedom identified as a problem, isn’t it? And why would we want to “escape from freedom”? We usually think that freedom must be something unequivocally good. All over the world people are fighting for their freedom. Being imprisoned, losing one’s freedom, is a heavy punishment that we reserve only for the worst offenders in...
Fromm identifies three ways in which many people try to escape from that unwanted and threatening freedom. One is authoritarianism, the attempt to give up one’s individuality and to become part of a collective, an authoritarian system that will tell us what to do. This can happen in two ways: we can either submit to the power of others, becoming pa...
So let us see how we cope with our freedom in our own lives. Do we cherish it? Do we make the best use of it? Or do we hide behind the power and the authority of others, behind violence and destructiveness, or behind mass culture, in the attempt to disappear and to get rid of that freedom that scares us? Of course, it is hard to look at our own pro...
How does freedom become a problem and a source of anxiety? Erich Fromm explores three ways of escaping from freedom: authoritarianism, destructiveness and automaton conformity.
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Sep 15, 1994 · Religion and fascism were overtly obvious ways to escape the hells of freedom and all of the anxieties that come along with it, but Fromm also investigates how the 'modern man,' with all his freedom, conforms to more hidden forms of authority.
- Erich Fromm
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Escape from Freedom. Erich Fromm. Macmillan, 1994 - Fiction - 301 pages. If humanity cannot live with the dangers and responsibilities inherent in freedom, it will probably turn to...
Mar 26, 2013 · The classic study of the psychological appeal of fascism by a New York Times–bestselling author. The pursuit of freedom has indelibly marked Western culture since...
