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Between 1974 and 1976, while working on the book To Have Or to Be? at his home in Locarno, Switzerland, the aged Erich Fromm wrote far more manuscript and chapters than were actually used in the book, which was published in 1976. Some of these chapters are contained in the present volume. They deal entirely with the "steps toward being" that the individual can take in order to learn the Art of Being. How can we realize and actualize Love, Reason, and meaningful, productive work? Fromm here offers the Art of Being, a way of living based on authentic self-awareness that comes only through honest self-analysis. Wisely, he warns of the pitfalls of our attaining enlightenment without effort, or believing that life can be lived without pain. The tantalizing "spiritual smorgasbord" offered by our consumer-oriented world, Fromm maintains, only feeds our illusions of "easy awareness." Confronting the psycho-Gurus who preach these shortcuts to enlightenment, Fromm offers another way to self-awareness and well-being, one based on psychoanalysis and self-awareness through meditation. If the Art of Being - the art of functioning as a whole person - can be considered the supreme goal of life, a breakthrough occurs when we move from narcissistic selfishness and egotism - from having - to psychological and spiritual happiness - being. The Art of Being will be one of the most important works in the Fromm canon for years to come.

L'art de vivre

Nous vivons dans un monde de violence.
Et nous ne pouvons que nous interroger sur ce besoin de cruauté propre à l'homme. Erich Fromm dissèque ici tous les aspects de cette destructivité en faisant appel à toutes les disciplines qui peuvent jeter une lumière nouvelle sur la question : la neurophysiologie, la préhistoire, l'anthropologie, la psychologie animale, la psychanalyse. Fromm va au-delà de la controverse entre les instinctivistes, tel Lorenz, qui voient dans la destructivité humaine l'héritage de nos ancêtres animaux, et les behavioristes, tel Skinner, pour qui il n'y a pas de traits humains innés, ceux-ci résultant du seul conditionnement social.
Fromm distingue plusieurs types d'agressivité : une agressivité défensive que l'homme partage avec l'animal et qui assure sa survie. Et une agressivité maligne - qu'il appelle destructivité -, qui incite l'homme à tuer sans but social ni nécessité biologique et qui est spécifiquement humaine et non instinctive. Faisant partie du caractère de l'homme, elle serait l'une de ses passions, comme l'amour, l'ambition, l'avidité.
La destructivité est vue à travers les rêves et associations des patients de Fromm et à travers l'étude de personnages tels que Staline - remarquable exemple de sadisme -, Himmler - sadique bureaucrate -, Hitler enfin, en qui Fromm voit un nécrophile ; la nécrophilie étant l'une des formes de l'agressivité maligne. Cette étude du caractère de Hitler représente certainement l'une des plus originales et brillantes contributions à la connaissance du Führer.
La Passion de détruire demeure un ouvrage de référence pour tous ceux qui, comme Erich Fromm, souhaitent, à travers un nouvel humanisme, susciter une évolution positive et défendre la dignité de l'homme.

La passion de détruire - NE

The fiftieth Anniversary Edition of the groundbreaking international bestseller that has shown millions of readers how to achieve rich, productive lives by developing their hidden capacities for loveMost people are unable to love on the only level that truly matters: love that is compounded of maturity, self-knowledge, and courage. As with every art, love demands practice and concentration, as well as genuine insight and understanding.In his classic work, The Art of Loving, renowned psychoanalyst and social philosopher Erich Fromm explores love in all its aspects—not only romantic love, steeped in false conceptions and lofty expectations, but also brotherly love, erotic love, self-love, the love of God, and the love of parents for their children.

L'art d'aimer

In this provocative book, the distinguished author writes to break the deadlock in the struggle between the instinctivism of Konrad Lorenz and behavior psychologist B.F. Skinner.

La passion de détruire: Anatomie de la destructivité humaine

To Have Or to Be? is one of the seminal books of the second half of the 20th century. Nothing less than a manifesto for a new social and psychological revolution to save our threatened planet, this book is a summary of the penetrating thought of Eric Fromm. His thesis is that two modes of existence struggle for the spirit of humankind: the having mode, which concentrates on material possessions, power, and aggression, and is the basis of the universal evils of greed, envy, and violence; and the being mode, which is based on love, the pleasure of sharing, and in productive activity. To Have Or to Be? is a brilliant program for socioeconomic change.>

Avoir ou être?

Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis, Erich Fromm, D. T. Suzuki, and De Martino. Approximately one third of this book is a long discussion by Suzuki that gives a Buddhist analysis of the mind, its levels, and the methodology of extending awareness beyond the merely discursive level of thought. In producing this analysis, Suzuki gives a theoretical explanation for many of the swordsmanship teaching stories in Zen and Japanese Culture that otherwise would seem to involve mental telepathy, extrasensory perception, etc.

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