num_pages: 384
description: The Sane Society is a continuation and extension of the brilliant psychiatric concepts Erich Fromm first formulated in Escape from Freedom ; it is also, in many ways, an answer to Freud's Civilization and its Discontents .Fromm examines man's escape into overconformity and the danger of robotism in contemporary industrial modern humanity has, he maintains, been alienated from the world of their own creation. Here Fromm offers a complete and systematic exploration of his "humanistic psychoanalysis." In so doing, he counters the profound pessimism for our future that Freud expressed and sets forth the goals of a society in which the emphasis is on each person and on the social measures designed to further function as a responsible individual.
language: English
title: The Sane Society
titlecomplete: The Sane Society
genres: Social Science, Politics, Philosophy, Psychology, Nonfiction, Science, Social, Sociology, Society, Psychoanalysis
ratings_count: 2487
publisher: Holt Paperbacks