Beyond the Chains of Illusion: My Encounter with Marx and Freud

by Erich Fromm

Overview

First published in 1962 Beyond the Chains of Illusion is Fromm's landmark book about Marx and Freud. Here he delivers original readings of these hugely influential thinkers and, in doing so, offers us new ways of understanding the individual and society. Perhaps even more revealing than these readings is the insight we get into Fromm's own thought and the political and social contexts in which he formed his ideas. Including a foreword by Fromm's Literary Executor, Rainer Funk, this is unique introduction to Marx and Freud and also to Fromm's life and thought.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781501334481
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/28/2017
Series:	Bloomsbury Revelations
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	870,189
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Erich Fromm (1900–1980) is widely regarded as one of the most important psychoanalytical thinkers of the 20th century. Besides his influence on modern psychology, he was also a key member of the Frankfurt School, and became one of the founders of the socialist humanist movement. He is the author of To Have Or To Be? and Marx's Concept of Man, both published in the Bloomsbury Revelations series.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Rainer Funk

I. Some Personal Antecedents
II. The Common Ground
III. The Concept of Man and His Nature
IV. Human Evolution
V. Human Motivation
VI. The Sick Individual and the Sick Society
VII. The Concept of Mental Health
VIII. Individual and Social Character
IX. The Social Unconscious
X. The Fate of Both Theories
XL. Some Related Ideas
XII. Credo