The Dogma of Christ (1963)

by Erich Fromm

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When he was 26, the great psychoanalyst and philosopher Erich Fromm abandoned Judaism, though he himself was descended from a long line of rabbis and the product of a devout Jewish upbringing. The title essay of this collection was first published in 1930, just four years after he made that first, decisive split. It was to point towards the future Fromm's work, presenting the view that an understanding of basic human needs is essential to the understanding of society and mankind itself. The following essays too, show a man who would eventually establish himself as a major thinker, producing some of that era's most influential and astute political works.… (more)

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This is a collection of essays with ideas that I've mostly seen from him in other books like "Escape from Freedom," "The Art of Loving," and "The Forgotten Language." The titular essay was interesting, but something I had previously studied so not very compelling. He tracks how Christianity changed from a rebellious apocalyptic religion into a population control mechanism perpetuated by the religious elite. Probably the most interesting essays are "Sex and Character," which discusses the characterological differences between men and women stemming from their sexual differences, and "Psychoanalysis: Science or Party Line?" in which he discusses the internal petty politics that led to the breakup of Freud's supergroup of psychiatrists. (

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The Dogma of Christ and Other Essays on Religion, Psychology and Culture

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1963

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It is one of the essential accomplishments of psychoanalysis that it has done away with the false distinction between social psychology and individual psychology. On the one hand, Freud emphasized that there is no individual psychology of man isolated
from his social environment, because an isolated man does not exist. Freud knew no homo psychologicus, no psychological Robinson Crusoe, like the economic man of classical economic theory.

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When he was 26, the great psychoanalyst and philosopher Erich Fromm abandoned Judaism, though he himself was descended from a long line of rabbis and the product of a devout Jewish upbringing. The title essay of this collection was first published in 1930, just four years after he made that first, decisive split. It was to point towards the future Fromm's work, presenting the view that an understanding of basic human needs is essential to the understanding of society and mankind itself. The following essays too, show a man who would eventually establish himself as a major thinker, producing some of that era's most influential and astute political works.

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