Analysis On The Thought Of Fromm’s "Escape From The Freedom"

"Escape from the freedom" is the core of Fromm’s academic system.The main content of "escape from the freedom" contains following fiveaspects. At first, the psychological mechanism of escaping freedom formsin human history.As human get rid of natural bondage,our ability of usingreason to control natural is stronger and stronger, the degree of ourfreedom seem to higher and higher. At the same time, individual’sloneliness, anxiety and insecurity have been deepened. When human historycame into the capitalist society, the contradiction reached incompatiblelimit, and society appeared the psychological tendency of escapingfreedom and giving up themselves. Investigate the cause of phenomenon,because, in the whole course of human history, human only realize negativefreedom of getting rid of external bondage,people want to escape negativefreedom of full of internal contradiction,and realize positive freedom.Secondly, the psychological mechanism of escaping freedom results inthree escaping forms, namely the authoritarianism,desire of destructionand automatic adaptability. These forms are different ways, but givingup individual integrity is their common feature, people is trying to setup some new relationship between themselves and others or organization,soas to get rid of insufferable loneliness and insecurity. But because ofthe rational mature,human have already known that they are independent,so people only just take various ways to evade the problem but not reallysolve the problem.Thirdly, the phenomenon of escaping freedom also has special socialreason. As individuation and loneliness increase together,the innercontradiction of negative freedom gets the maximum in capitalist society,the reason is that aspects of social alienation produce, includingeconomy,politics and culture ect.And,alienation of economic life leds to entrepreneurs, senior white-collar workers and workers become gearsof a big economic machine; Democratic election is only a meaningless term.voters are fooled dolls, and those candidates are also used tools by bigcorporations; In cultural life, no matter family education, schooleducation or social education, we just know the official facts andknowledge according with some political ideology and social moral needs,we are molded into a kind of people, not the unique personal.Fourthly, to eliminate alienation, realize positive freedom, we willwork hard to achieve overall revolution in individual and society. As forindividual, to learn to love and creative work. Inner qualities of lovingcontain giving, care, respect, understanding and responsibility, love isthe psychological foundation to realize positive freedom; Creative workis to make the job itself into a demand. The realization of the positivefreedom also need social revolution to do guarantee.In short, socialrevolution is to establish a new democratic socialism country that peoplebecome important participants and managers of national economiclife,guarantee the people’s democratic rights, and make the people becomethe nation’s true master, at the same time, attempt to establish the humanharmony cultural system.Finally, the "escape from the freedom" thought has importanttheoretical value.It reveals the essence of alienation, explores a newway of researching freedom and sures the individual’s value. At the sametime,it’s able to help us to reflect on modern materialistic society lifeand improve our mental consciousness. But the theory also has somelimitations, it don’t see the fundamental economic cause of the phenomenonof "escape from the freedom", the method that he attempts to achievepositive freedom though changing individual’s thought is worth weighingdeliberately, and Fromm’s some measures of changing social haven’tfeasibility.