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Erich Fromm Quote

The absolutely alienated individual worships at the altar of an idol, and it makes little difference by what names this idol is known.

Erich Fromm

The absolutely alienated individual worships at the altar of an idol, and it makes little difference by what names this idol is known.

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About Erich Fromm

Erich Seligmann Fromm (; German: [fʁɔm]; March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980) was a German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was a German Jew who fled the Nazi regime and settled in the United States. He was one of the founders of The William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology in New York City and was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.