Erich Fromm
1900-1980
Psychoanalyst.

Born in Frankfurt, Germany. PhD 1922 University of Heidelberg.
Left Nazi Germany in 1934 and came to the United States.
Taught at several universities in New York before becoming
professor of psychoanalysis at the National University of Mexico, Cuernavaca in 1951.

"We need to create the conditions that would make the growth of man
... the supreme goal of all social arrangements. Genuine freedom
and independence and the end of all forms of exploitive control
are the conditions for mobilizing the love of life,
which is the only force that can defeat the love for the dead."

Primary Sources:
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973)
Escape From Freedom
Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics
Psychoanalysis and Religion
The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding
of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths
The Sane Society
The Art of Loving
Sigmund Freud's Mission
Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis (with D.T. Suzuki and R. de Martino)
Marx's Concept of Man
The Dogma of Christ and Other Essays on Religion, Psychology and Culture
The Heart of Man
Beyond Chains of Illusion
May Man Prevail
The Nature of Man (with Ramon Xirau)
The Revolution of Hope
Humanist Socialism (ed.)
You Shall Be As Gods: A Radical Interpretation of
the Old Testament and Its Tradition
Social Character in a Mexican Village (with Michael Maccoby)
The Crisis of Psychoanalysis: Essays on Freud, Marx and Social Psychology

Secondary Sources:
See Thomas Merton's Letters to Fromm in Merton's, The Hidden Ground of Love, ed by W. Shannon