Fromm Evades The Study Of The Mechanism Of Free Psychology

Erich Fromm,a German-born Jew of American nationality and famous philosopher of the 20 th century,devoted his life to the study of Freudian theory.His core idea is the doctrine of freedom and escape from freedom.His views can be found in works such as Man for Himself,Escape from Freedom,The Sane Society and The Art of Loving.This paper uses Escape from Freedom as the main analytical resource,combining with Fromm's other monographs and papers to discuss the philosopher's escape freedom mechanism.The paper is divided into four parts,which are the introduction and the other three chapters.The psychological mechanism of escaping from freedom appeared in 1930 s and 1940 s.Fromm,who was living in Germany,was profoundly aware of the nationalist wave of the Nazi party led by Hitler during this period.The latent social tragedy and unpredictable future of human beings were hidden in this kind of undercurrent thoughts.Fromm with Jewish identity had a deeper understanding of the hardships that the Jewish people might have to face.Freedom,the human pursuit of a better state of life,in fact,was probably the disaster that people need to escape from.It was under the circumstance that Fromm,based on Freud and Jung's theory of psychoanalysis,analyzed the reasons why people escape from freedom thoroughly,and formed his own theory of social psychology about escaping from freedom.The introduction mainly refers to three aspects of the paper.Initially,the relationship between Fromm's ethnic identity and his academic research and ideology is analyzed.As a son of Rabbi,Fromm had long been aware of the particularity of his ethnic group.The relatively well-off family enabled him to have a comprehensive and good education,which laid a solid theoretical foundation for his academic studies in the United States.Furthermore,the academic history of the concept of freedom and the idea of escaping from freedom is studied,the current status of research on Fromm's escape freedom mechanism at home and abroad is discussed,and it is pointed out that there is still some space for the extension of those themes in current research.Finally,the innovation of the paper and the application of theoretical discourse are explained.The first chapter,Individual and Individuality—The Pedigree of Freedom,discusses the pedigree of freedom and escape from freedom from the concept of individual and individuality,and indicates that early in the writings of ancient Greek sages(especially Plato)there was a discussion on human's free will.By outlining the pedigree of freedom,we can basically reach such a conclusion that for ancient Greece,freedom is related to the divinity of the universe,and man,after bravely uttering the word "I," in form,got rid of the relationship with nature(the universe).Beginning in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries,with the renewal of human cognition by the Freudian theory,however,freedom is no longer an individual's private narrative,but a diagnosis of the symptoms of the whole era.Fromm carried out his own psychological research in this sense.The second chapter,The Religious Dimension and the Ideological Dimension of Freedom from the Perspective of Fromm's Theory,explores the genesis principle of Fromm's social psychology,and it is from the angle of religion that philosophers discovered the way and possibility of escape from freedom.The reason why Fromm chose Martin Luther's religious reform to analyze the relationship between religion and freedom is that in addition to daily life,religion is an important clue for the western world to get a glimpse of its action secrets.The third chapter,The Reasons for Escape from Freedom and How to Make It Possible,focuses on the specific context and the analysis on the core element of the mechanism of escape from freedom.Particularly,several important terms about escape mechanism in Fromm's theory are analyzed and studied,and the way of Fromm's escape from freedom is also determined.Finally,taking Hitler's political career and childhood trauma as an example,we analyze the relationship between escape from freedom and personal will,and point out that history is a synthesis of many factors,and there is no rule to follow.Hitler's existence is entirely accidental.But this accident caused a worldwide disaster.