Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which the individual self disappears to a large extent, and where the aim is to belong to the heard. If I am like everybody else, if I have no feeling or thoughts which make me different, if I conform in custom, dress, ideas, to the pattern of the group, I am saved: saved from the frightening experience of aloneness.


The Art of Loving (ed. Open Road Media, 2013) - ISBN: 9781480402003

Erich Fromm Quotes

Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which the individual...

Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which the individual...

Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which the individual...

Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which the individual...