Erich Fromm Quotes about Culture

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Many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that the problem of mental health in a society is only that of the number of 'unadjusted'

Many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that the problem of mental health in a society is only that of the number of 'unadjusted' individuals, and not of a possible unadjustment of the culture itself.

Erich Fromm

Ideas, Numbers, Culture

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Sane Society”, p.12, Open Road Media

The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology.

Erich Fromm

Home, Sick, Culture

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.589, Open Road Media

Finally one arrives at this: the state of sleep has an ambiguous function; in sleep, the lack of contact with the culture brings out the worst and also the best in us.

Erich Fromm

Sleep, Culture, States

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