Erich Fromm on Alienation, Loneliness, and Humanity

„A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet 'for sale', who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence - briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing - cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society.“

Erich FrommErich Fromm on alienation, loneliness, and preserving humanity in modern society.
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Erich Fromm was a German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, and philosopher known for his humanistic approach to psychology and society.

Erich Fromm describes the loneliness and powerlessness of a person who preserves their humanity in an alienated society.


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Erich Fromm (1900–1980) was a prominent social psychologist and psychoanalyst who explored the links between society, freedom, and human nature. His works center on themes of freedom, social psychology, and humanism.

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"Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He has constructed a complicated social machine to administer the technical machine he built. The more powerful and gigantic the forces are which he unleashes, the more powerless he feels himself as a human being. He is owned by his creations, and has lost ownership of himself." Erich Fromm
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Quote about loneliness by Carl Gustav JungCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know. Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible." Carl Gustav Jung
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Erich Fromm quote image about conformity and the loss of selfCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self." Erich Fromm
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Aldous Huxley quote about mental illness, normality, and societyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society." Aldous Huxley
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