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
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