Erich Fromm Quotes:
Ocupation: Psychologist
Life: March 23, 1900 - March 18, 1980
Birthday: March 23
Death: March 18
Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which the individual self disappears to a large extent, and where the aim is to belong to the heard. If I am like everybody else, if I have no feeling or thoughts which make me different, if I conform in custom, dress, ideas, to the pattern of the group, I am saved: saved from the frightening experience of aloneness.
source: ERICH FROMM (1956). “THE ART OF LOVING”
topic: Self, Ideas, Feelings, Western Society
