Man for himself. Forgotten language. Fromm E.

Erich Fromm (1900–1980) is the largest thinker of the twentieth century, one of the great cohort of “philosophers from psychology” and the spiritual leader of the Frankfurt sociological school.

In the work “Man for himself”, Erich Fromm considers the purpose of a person in the modern world, which freed him from heavy physical labor. Developing material culture and accumulating knowledge, we could not answer the main question of being: what is a person, how he should live and where he can direct the enormous energy that is enclosed in him?

to another The work of the collection, the “forgotten language”, the author puts forward his own, completely original theory of dreams and the methodology of their interpretation. According to his theory, the dreams are a kind of “memory of the ancestors”, the universal language of symbols, preserved in our memory since ancient times, a language united for all cultures and peoples throughout the history of mankind, having studied which, we will be able to know the very friendly and friend friend.