The Criticism Of Escaping From Freedom To The Sane Society

Fromm known is very famous as a psychoanalysis modern Western psychologists and sociologists in the West, he not only inherited and developed Freud’s psychoanalytic theory, but also trying to combine Freud’s theory and Marx’s theory to solve real-life problems, and of course, his main contribution is still in its caring to people, he reveals the morbid mental condition of people in the modern Western society, and put forward their own reform programs.Fromm’s thinking is not accomplished overnight, also has a history of its formation process. Fromm experienced two world wars and was deeply affected, he also found that people has not been real freedom before and after the two wars. His thoughts is mainly derived from the prevalent theory of Freud and Marx’s materialist ideology.The two theories have their strengths, such as Marx’s theory of alienation, materialist doctrines and healthy people’s thoughts Freud’s theory of the unconscious, personality theory and human thoughts, which are later in Fromm’s thinking reflected.Fromm inherited and developed the idea of them, and in his own human study, put forward his own doctrine. Fromm found that people escape to freedom in society. Since people are separated from nature,they feel anxious and worried, and there is an urgent need to look forward to their roots, and in the development of history, as people power has grown, people find that they are increasingly away from their roots the farther.people get a great deal of freedom, but also felt more loneliness, in order to obtain a sense of security, people had to give up part of their freedom to expect to be able to integrate into the world.Fromm discovered this morbid problems and put forward his own reform program.starting from a psychological point he proposed use activities and love to solve this problem, he believed that only in this way we can achieve the true freedom and equality and fraternity in order to achieve a healthy society.Despite Fromm still reflectes the interests of the bourgeoisie, and his social thought is mainly explained from a psychological point of view, but for us, his ideas still have many merits, his description of capitalism is a new content for us to criticize the capitalist society, he’s caring to people and psychology point of view to us have a major revelation. Therefore, we should have a certain degree of understanding to Fromm’s ideas.