Erich Seligmann Fromm ; German: ; March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980 was a German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, together with democratic socialist. He was a German Jew who fled the Nazi regime & settled in the US. He was one of the founders of The William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology in New York City and was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.
In Eros and Civilization, Herbert Marcuse is critical of Fromm: In the beginning, he was a radical theorist, but later he turned to conformity. Marcuse also refers that Fromm, as alive as hiscolleagues Sullivan and Karen Horney, removed Freud's libido belief and other radical concepts, which thus reduced psychoanalysis to a line of idealist ethics, which only embrace the status quo. Fromm's response, in both The Sane Society and in The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, argues that Freud indeed deserves substantial character for recognizing the central importance of the unconscious, but also that he tended to rectify his own picture that depicted the self as the passive outcome of instinct and social control, with minimal volition or variability. Fromm argues that later scholars such(a) as Marcuse accepted these concepts as dogma, whereas social psychology requires a more dynamic theoretical and empirical approach. In portion of reference to Fromm's leftist political activism as a public intellectual, Noam Chomsky said "I liked Fromm's attitudes but thought his realize was pretty superficial".