Sorokin photo, circa 1925

 

 

This photograph appeared in a magazine containing a book review of Sorokin’s  Leaves from a Russian Diary.

— posted by Roger W. Smith

Pitirim A. Sorokin, commentary — Erich Fromm, “War Within Man”

 

Sorokin commentary; Erich Fromm, ‘War Within Man’

 

Posted here (PDF above) is Sorokin’s commentary (pp. 42-43) in

Erich Fromm

War Within Man : A Psychological Enquiry into the Roots of Destructiveness: A Study And Commentary

Philadelphia: Peace Literature Service of the American Friends Service Committee, 1963

Erich Fromm (1900-1980) was a German social psychologist and
psychoanalyst. Fromm belonged to a Neo-Freudian school of psychoanalytical theory.

It is well known that Sorokin had little interest in or sympathy with psychoanalysis and Freudianism.

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith

    April 2023