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The assumption that the problem of love is the problem of an , not the problem of a . People think that to is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by- is difficult.

Erich Fromm

The assumption that the problem of love is the problem of an , not the problem of a . People think that to is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by- is difficult.

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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.