Question: Which man was older, Tim O'Brien or Erich Fromm?

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Erich-Fromm-Preis: The Erich-Fromm-Preis is a German prize bestowed upon people who have advanced Humanism through their scientific, social, sociopolitical or journalistic engagement.  The prize is named after Erich Fromm, a Jewish German-American philosopher, psychoanalyst and psychologist.  The price is conferred yearly since 1995, and since 2006, it is endowed with 10'000 €.

Marx's Concept of Man: Marx's Concept of Man is a 1961 book about Karl Marx by the psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, in which the author portrayed Marx as a humanist and existentialist thinker.  The work sold widely thanks to the popularity of Marx's early writings, which was a product of the existentialism of the 1940s.

Erich Fromm: Erich Seligmann Fromm (] ; March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980) was a German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist.  He was one of Founders of The William Allison White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology in New York City and was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.

Escape from Freedom: Escape from Freedom, sometimes known as The Fear of Freedom outside North America, is a book by the Frankfurt-born psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, first published in the United States by Farrar & Rinehart in 1941.  In the book, Fromm explores humanity's shifting relationship with freedom, with particular regard to the personal consequences of its absence.  His special emphasis is the psychosocial conditions that facilitated the rise of Nazism.

The Art of Listening: The Art of Listening is a 1994 book on psychology by psychoanalyst Erich Fromm.  In this work, Fromm elucidates his therapeutic method of dealing with the psychological sufferings of people in contemporary society.  Fromm's work contains a great deal of clinical reflections of the psychoanalyst.  In "The Art of Listening", Fromm studies the communication between analyst and analysand in which the analyst offers himself as a human being specially trained in the "art of listening."  The art of therapy is the art of listening.

Social character: The social character is the central basic concept of the analytic social psychology of Erich Fromm.  It describes the formation of the shared character structure of the people of a society or a social class according to their way of life and the socially typical expectations and functional requirements regarding socially adaptive behavior.  Social character is essentially adaptive to the dominant mode of production in a society.  According to Fromm, the concept integrates Marx's theory concerning how the mode of production determines ideology with Freud's concept of character.

Clara Thompson: Clara Mabel Thompson (October 3, 1893 in Providence, Rhode Island – December 20, 1958) studied medicine at Johns Hopkins University and in her last year she was introduced to psychoanalysis.  In the future years she developed as a psychoanalyst working with people like William Alanson White, Adolf Meyer, Harry Stack Sullivan, Joseph Cheesman Thompson, and Sándor Ferenczi.  In the early 1940s Thompson founded the William Alanson White Psychiatric Foundation in New York together with Erich Fromm, Harry Stack Sullivan, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, David Rioch and Janet Rioch (see www.wawhite.org).  She worked there until her death on December 20, 1958

Freud: His Life and His Mind: Freud: His Life and His Mind is a 1947 biography of Sigmund Freud by Helen Walker Puner.  The book was reprinted in 1959 with a new foreword by the psychoanalyst Erich Fromm.  The work was praised by Fromm, but has also received criticism from scholars.

The Art of Loving: The Art of Loving is a 1956 book by psychoanalyst and social philosopher Erich Fromm, which was published as part of the "World Perspectives Series" edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen.  In this work, Fromm develops his perspective on human nature, from his earlier work, "Escape from Freedom" and "" – principles which he revisits in many of his other major works.

Tim O'Brien (author): William Timothy "Tim" O'Brien (born October 1, 1946) is an American novelist.  He best known for his "The Things They Carried" (1990), a collection of linked short stories.  These semi-autobiographical stories were inspired by O'Brien's experiences in the Vietnam War.  In 2010 the "New York Times" described O'Brien's book as a Vietnam classic.  In addition, he is known for his war novel, "Going After Cacciato" (1978), also about wartime Vietnam, and later novels about postwar lives of veterans.

Supporting paragraphs: Tim O'Brien (author) Erich Fromm
Answer: Erich Seligmann Fromm