Erich Fromm on Alienation and Modern Man

„Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as an investment which must bring him the maximum profit obtainable under existing market conditions.“

Erich FrommErich Fromm describes modern man's alienation from himself, other people, and nature.
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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 examines human alienation and the reduction of life to economic utility.


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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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"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 Fromm
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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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