Freud and soon later Marx became the guiding lights of his work. In 1927, Fromm published his first psychoanalytical work, in Imago, Zeitschrift fur Anwendung der Psychoanalyis auf die Natur und ...

For Erich Fromm, and more recently in the work of Gabor Maté, being or becoming “normal” itself is seen as a negatively conformist aim of institutional psychotherapy.

Because Sigmund Freud invented psychoanalysis, there was no old couchman around to analyze him and get him started on the right track—so he analyzed himself. Now Erich Fromm, one of the most ...

Freud believed that the mother-son Oedipus complex was inevitable. Fromm thinks that there is a way to avoid the father-son Oedipus complex: let parents be less domineering, and let them have more ...

Freud thought every life was blighted by the childhood Oedipus complex; Fromm sees nothing worse in childhood than a healthy rebellion against parental authority.