University:
Purdue University
Course:
PSY 12000 | Elementary Psychology
Academic year:

2022
Views:

167

Pages:

4
Author:

Leilani Contreras

HUMANISTIC PSYCHOANALYSIS ERICH FROMM WHO IS ERICH FROMM? • A native of Frankfurt, Germany and was born on March 23, 1900 • Erich Seligmann Fromm; Pioneer of Political Psychology • The middle child of a middle-class, Orthodox Jewish parents. • Described his childhood to be less than ideal and claimed that he has “very neurotic parents” and he was probably a “neurotic child”. • He saw his father as being moody and his mother as prone to depression. • He grew up in two very distinct worlds, one the traditional Orthodox Jewish world, the other the modern capitalist world. • His family knew a young artist who killed herself immediately after the death of her father • Because of this he developed an interest in Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis • In World War I, he noted the irrationality of the German nationalism and he was sure that the British and French were equally irrational. • Obsessed by the question of how war was possible