An Inquiry Into Fromm’s Human Thought

In the "people-oriented" today, human theory has got more and more attention.Fromm as the founder of the school of the humanitarian spirit analysis in twentiethCentury and one of the most influential scholars, renowned at home and abroad. Histheory about human and human nature are longevity in theory circles because of hisunique research perspective and charm. This article mainly revolves around thesources of the theory of Fromm’s human thought, the academic performance of thetheory of Fromm’s human thought and the significance in theory and practice of thetheory of Fromm’s human thought to carry on the elaboration and strive to show thetheory of Fromm’s human thought overall. It can make people achieve aunderstanding of more comprehensive and deeper to the theory of Fromm’s humanthought and so as to bring people more enlightening reflections.The first part mainly discusses the origin of Fromm‘s human thought of theory.Fromm’s thought is based on the criticizing and inheriting to Marx‘s and Freud’sthought. Therefore, under the influence of the times, on the one hand, Frommcritically inherited Freud’s thought, On the other hand, he was deeply attracted byMarx’s thought.He tried to combined Freud’s psychoanalytic theory with Marx’stheory of social criticism, and the common of the ideological basis and the studymethod of the Freud’s theory and Marx’s theory led Fromm to integrate the two ideasis possible.The second part mainly discusses the main content of Fromm’s theory. Frommas a social philosopher, human has not only been the center issue of his focus andstudy, but also the important premise of his human theory upon which to build.Fromm carried on a thorough analysis on the human and the nature with an uniqueperspective, and put forward his theory of overall human nature of multiple levels; theuniversal spiritual crisis and social crisis of the western capitalist society haveexposed the internal contradiction of capitalist society. Fromm with a sharp eyesurveyed the capitalist social, uncovered the root of the capitalist social ills isalienation. In order to seek the Outlet for Western society, Fromm put forward thehumanitarian society conception of total elimination to alienation, and all-round development of human; Fromm pay close attention to people’s spiritual activities insocial production and life,and made thorough exploration to the important role ofpeople’s psychological activity, to make Freud’s individual psychological analysistheory and Marx’ social criticism theory combined, and put forward the new socialpsychological category, social character, social unconsciousness, social narcissism,and it is an important creative psychology to apply it to the analysis to the reality ofcapitalist society,The third part mainly discusses the significance of Fromm‘s human thought.Fromm noted from physiological, psychological, historical and many other aspects toanalysis the human nature, and established his overall theory of human nature ofmultiple levels. But he is not really from the perspective of social mode of production,social relations to take a deep analysis on human nature, and could not get rid of theshackles of human nature of abstract theory; Fromm reveals the origin of alienation incapitalist society based on the theory of human nature, and put forward the conceptionof building humanitarian society. But due to the neglect to the class and themacroscopically revolution, this kind of conception is only a humanitarian Utopia;Fromm focus on psychological factors’ role in social production, but due to the lackof the Marxist doctrine view of practice, and only from social psychological layer toanalysis the nature of human and the survival way is one-sided and unscientific from acertain extent.