The Art of Loving

The renowned psychoanalyst Erich Fromm has helped millions of men and women achieve rich, productive lives by developing their hidden capacities for love. In this astonishly frank and candid book, he explores the ways in which this extraordinary emotion can alter the whole course of your life. Most of us are unable to develop our capacities for love on the only level that rea...

The renowned psychoanalyst Erich Fromm has helped millions of men and women achieve rich, productive lives by developing their hidden capacities for love. In this astonishly frank and candid book, he explores the ways in which this extraordinary emotion can alter the whole course of your life. Most of us are unable to develop our capacities for love on the only level that really counts––a love that is compounded of maturity, self–knowledge, and courage. Learning to love, like other arts, demands practice and concentration. Even more than any other art it demands genuine insight and understanding. In this startling book, Fromm discusses love in all its aspects; not only romantic love, so surrounded by conceptions, but also love of parents for children, brotherly love, erotic love, self–love, and love of God.

艾里希·弗洛姆，著名德裔美籍心理学家、精神分析学家、哲学家。1900年生于德国法兰克福犹太人家庭，1922年获德国海德堡大学哲学博士学位，是二十年代“法兰克福学派”重要成员。纳粹上台后，他于1934年赴美，在从事心理咨询工作的同时，在哥伦比亚大学等学术机构讲学，并先后执教于墨西哥国立大学、密歇根州立大学等高校。1980年弗洛姆病逝于瑞士洛伽诺。

弗洛姆的研究植根于弗洛伊德的精神分析学说和马克思主义哲学理论。他认为人是各自所在的产物，在现代工业化社会，人变得越来越自我疏离，这种孤立感导致人们潜意识下渴望与他人结合、联系。

弗洛姆以深入浅出、平易近人的文笔，创造了大量学术著作和普及性作品，其中影响最大的有《爱的艺术》、《逃避自由》、《健全的社会》、《精神分析的危机》等。