Erich Fromm

Erich Fromm

(Theory of Social Psychology)

Erich Fromm was born in Frankfurt, Germany on March 23, 1900. He studied psychology and sociology at the University of Heidelberg, Frankfurt, and Munich. After obtaining his Ph.D. from Heidelberg in 1922, he studied psychoanalysis at the Institute in Munich and Berlin's famous psychoanalysis that time. In 1933 he moved to the United States and taught at the Chicago Institute for psychoanalysis and conduct private practice in New York City. He has taught at several universities and institutes in this country and in Mexico. Finally, Fromm lived in Switzerland and died in Muralto, Switzerland on March 18, 1980.

Fromm is strongly influenced by the writings of Karl Marx, especially by her first, The Philosophical economic manuscriptsyang written in 1944. Fromm ulisan basic theme is people who feel lonely and isolated because he is separated dri nature and other people. Kedaan isolation is not found in all animal species, it is a situation unique to humans.