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Erich Fromm, The Art of Being. Foreword by Rainer Funk, 144 pages, hardcover, index, $16.95. New York: The Continuum Publishing Co.
Erich Fromm, The Revision of Psychoanalysis. Hardcover, $28.95. Boulder, CO.: Westview Press. Edited by Rainer Funk.
ERICH FROMM WAS BORN AT THE BEGINNING of the 20th Century and died eight decades later. The William Alanson White Institute—of which he was a co-founder—honored him in a memorial issue of Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Vol. 17, October, 1981). Included in the memorial publication was a dedication, tributes and commentaries, in which he was praised for his indomitable humanism and his faith in man's inherent capability of self-determination. Reference was also made to his eloquence as a speaker, teacher and writer, his quest for reason, and his love and dedication to life. At the same time, questions were raised about his not formally addressing himself to particular clinical issues, the technical aspects of treatment and case presentations. Fromm's books for the most part have avoided routine technical analytic concerns.
For the record, Fromm had been a member of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Society and was trained there. For the first ten years of his professional life he had been an orthodox Freudian analyst. As he matured professionally, he modified his views, but he was never happy with any particular label.
The Art of Being along with the powerful Revision of Psychoanalysis were posthumously published in the United States in 1992. All the material has been selected and thoughtfully edited by Rainer Funk.