Erich Fromm  (1900–1980) LINKS International Erich Fromm Society Web site http://www.erich-fromm.de/ With minor navigation around the International Erich Fromm Society Web site, interested readers will discover Fromm’s autobiographical comments, a chronology of his life, and an extensive collection of Fromm’s essays. TPCN—Great Quotations by Erich Fromm http://www.cyber-nation.com/victory/quotations/authors/quotes_fromm_erich.html This site presents Erich Fromm’s opinions on creativity, existence, identity, and more. Erich Fromm http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/fromm.html Dr. C. George Boeree provides interested readers with an explanation and critical analysis of Fromm’s personality theory. The Two Voices of Erich Fromm http://www.maccoby.com/Articles/TwoVoices.html Michael Maccoby’s discussion of Fromm’s theories and of his personal experiences with Fromm are adapted from a lecture given at the Erich Fromm International Symposium, Washington, D.C., and were later published in Society Magazine. Illuminations: Kellner http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/kell8.htm “Erich Fromm is one of the few members of the Frankfurt School who seriously engaged himself with theorizing the problems of gender and the differences between men and women,” Douglas Kellner asserts in his lecture “Erich Fromm, Feminism, and the Frankfurt School.” BIOGRAPHY Fromm was born in Frankfurt, Germany, into the family of a wine merchant. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg, and completed further post-graduate study at the University of Munich, the Institute of the German Psychoanalytic Society, and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Berlin. In 1934, he immigrated to the United States, where he enjoyed a distinguished and prolific career as a psychoanalyst, philosopher, and writer. He lectured at numerous universities throughout the United States and Mexico and was an adjunct professor of psychology at New York University (1962–1980), where he founded the Institute of Psychology. He authored and edited more than thirty-five books, among them The Art of Loving: An Enquiry into the Nature of Love (1956, reissued 1974). Though his family had produced several rabbis, he gave up his religious convictions and practices because he “just didn’t want to participate in any division of the human race, whether religious or political.” Fromm helped organize the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE) in 1957. As a psychologist, he resisted the Freudian model in which the unconscious dominates, focusing instead on the importance of social and economic factors in human behavior.