Beyond the Chains of Illusion: My Encounter with Marx and Freud (Bloomsbury Revelations)

La quatrième de couverture indique : "First published in 1962, Beyond the Chains of Illusion is Fromm's landmark book about Marx and Freud. Here he delivers original readings of these hugely influential thinkers and, in doing so, offers us new ways of understanding the individual and society. Perhaps even more revealing than these readings is the insight we get into Fromm's own thought and the political and social contexts in which he formed his ideas. Including a foreword by Fromm's Literary Executor, Rainer Funk, this is a unique introduction to Marx and Freud and also to Fromm's life and thought." La quatrième de couverture indique : "First published in 1962, Beyond the Chains of Illusion is Fromm's landmark book about Marx and Freud. Here he delivers original readings of these hugely influential thinkers and, in doing so, offers us new ways of understanding the individual and society. Perhaps even more revealing than these readings is the insight we get into Fromm's own thought and the political and social contexts in which he formed his ideas. Including a foreword by Fromm's Literary Executor, Rainer Funk, this is a unique introduction to Marx and Freud and also to Fromm's life and thought." Foreword by Rainer Funk -- I. Some Personal Antecedents -- II. The Common Ground -- III. The Concept of Man and His Nature -- IV. Human Evolution -- V. Human Motivation -- VI. The Sick Individual and the Sick Society -- VII. The Concept of Mental Health -- VIII. Individual and Social Character -- IX. The Social Unconscious -- X. The Fate of Both Theories -- XL. Some Related Ideas -- XII. Credo