The Research On Fromm's "Escape From Freedom" Thought And Its Present Age Significance

Since from the ancient Greek and the ancient Roman, the human society has been developed for several millenniums and the freedom is always the human's valuable goal for pursuing as well as the attentive topic in this process, people's reverent desire for dreaming of and pursuing the freedom becomes the power to push forward the human society to advance and progress unceasingly. But in 1930's, the Germanic nationality sang the elegy for the freedom, they gave it up, choosing Hitler's despotic and dictatorial ruling. Why did the history process become so differently? Was the desire for pursuing it wrong? Or was the way wrong? Facing this paradox, the western scholars did some research on it and proposed their own answers from different angles. Among them, the representative of the new Freudianism, the social psychologist, the important member of the Frankfurt school of thought—Erich Fromm, who was from the USA, found another way to view the historical phenomenon—"Escape from Freedom" focusing on the angle of the social psychology. He discussed the intricate psychic mechanism of the human's loneliness and freedom as well as the question why and how the modern people escaped from the freedom in the process which the natural state changed into the capitalism modern society emphatically, in order to form the bright and rich characteristic "Escape from Freedom" thought. The article adopted the angle of the modernity to explain "Escape from Freedom" thought again, combining the freedom and the modernity together to explain the significant and pathological psychology phenomenon in the modern society and thus discuss the question how to pick and choose the freedom reality and the modernity. Through this series of theoretical elaboration and construction, we wanted to explain the important significance about the "Escape from Freedom" thought during the process of finding "the road of political development with Chinese characteristics" and building a harmonious society for modern China in the background of the opening of the Seventeenth Congress.According to the above main train of thought, we set up the frame of this article as following: Chapter 1 is the introduction. At first it mainly elaborated the research significance of this selected topic, and then analyzed the research on the present situation about Fromm and the "Escape from Freedom" thought in China, finally explained the author's theoretical innovation and the research way.Chapter 2, it explained and analyzed the main content of the Fromm thought—"Escape from Freedom", then formed the relational vein between the freedom and the modernity.Chapter 3, it analyzed the relationship between Fromm's thought and Marxism.Chapter 4, it discussed the theoretical values of the "Escape from Freedom" thought as well as the important significance during the process of finding "the road of political development with Chinese characteristics" and building a harmonious society for modern China in the background of the opening of the Seventeenth Congress.