Fromm's Theory Of Freedom

Free, one of the most important issues that people concerned since ancient times.What is freedom, man is not free, how to achieve freedom. These questions are the most important questions that have been answered by philosophers and thinkers. And for these problems, different philosophers and philosophical schools have different views. Fromm, as a famous thinker and philosopher in twentieth Century, was a scholar who cared about the social reality, actively participated in and promoted the reform of the society. In Fromm's opinion, freedom is the highest aim and pursuit of all human activities. In the theory of freedom, Fromm by integration of theory of Marx's theory of alienation and Freud's psychological analysis, reveals the human pursuit and longing for freedom but escape, the psychological cause of the fear of freedom, explores the escape the psychological mechanism of freedom. Fromm from modern social psychological and personality structure of which faces to the modern people to escape the dilemma of freedom for careful and deep analysis and study, and want to through the analysis to find the elimination of the ills of modern society and the ways. In today's China, due to the rapid development of social economy, we also face the psychological dilemma of Fromm's escape from freedom. This paper hopes to provide some useful references for the analysis of Fromm's theory of freedom. This paper consists of five parts.The first part introduces the background of the formation of Fromm's theory of freedom. First of all, Fromm's theory of freedom has a profound social and historical background. The twentieth century totalitarianism, especially the rise of Nazism, great influence in the formation of Fromm's theory of freedom. People's fanatical following and worship of the Nazi and the centralization of power gave Fromm a deep thought on the relationship between man and freedom. In Fromm's view, the social psychology of escaping from freedom is the soil of Nazi and totalitarian. Secondly,the formation of Fromm's theory of freedom also has a profound ideological origins.On the one hand, Fromm accepted Freud's theory of subconscious mind and the influence of psychological factors on social phenomenon. On the other hand, heaccepted and developed Marx's theory of social criticism, especially the alienation theory. Fromm was born and raised in a Judeo Christian religious tradition of family,childhood influenced by Judeo Christian religion that has produced important influence on Fromm.The second part introduces Fromm's concept of freedom. Firstly, explain the meaning of Fromm's freedom. In Fromm's opinion, freedom is the inherent attribute of man. Different from the traditional theory to discuss freedom, Fromm to specific life in a certain social reality of human objects to discuss freedom, thus the "freedom" and "history of the people" connected together. Secondly, freedom is the essence of human. The generation of freedom includes three stages: the natural state, the initial bond and the independent individual. In the natural state, man and nature are one. In the origin of the link, people are in the nation, the city and the country as a whole, and the existence of. Modern man is a free individual, it is a personal, independent person.The third part introduces Fromm's escape from freedom mechanism. In order to get rid of the feeling of loneliness, the modern people are eager to make the link and the natural state, which makes the modern people have the psychological mechanism of escaping from freedom. Authoritarian personality, escape from freedom mechanism of core, and in emotion and the world view of authoritarian personality is a kind of sadism, masochism. In Fromm view, although human nature can change with the environment and history, but the changes in human performance is limited. The distortion and repression of human nature by authoritarian personality makes people lose their due affection, attitude and outlook on the world.The fourth part introduces the idea of Fromm's perfect society. In order to solve the dilemma of modern people to escape from freedom, Fromm put forward to completely change the authority of the society, the establishment of a sound society to help people become free people. Sound society is a humanitarian society, the normal development of individual power is its primary purpose. To this end, we must carry out a comprehensive reform of the existing authoritarian society. The fundamental principle that people get along with in the perfect society is love. Under the principle of love, the individual can establish a harmonious relationship with others and theoutside world under the premise of ensuring the normal development of their own personality.The fifth part is the analysis of Fromm's theory of freedom. Fromm's theory of freedom has its unique theoretical and practical significance. In theory, Fromm's theory of freedom gives us a new perspective on the problem of freedom. Fromm inherited and developed Freud's psychoanalysis and Marx's theory of social criticism,and the combination of the two creative, formed his unique theory of freedom. At present, our country is in the key period of the development of industrialization, many of the problems we are facing is to be solved by Fromm's theory of freedom. So Fromm's freedom theory has important reference value for us to treat and solve the contemporary social problems and to build a harmonious society. Of course, there are some deficiencies in Fromm's theory of freedom.