The Essential Fromm

Essays on human alienation, mode of existence, consumerism, narcissism, and more from “both a psychologist of penetration and a writer of ability” ( Chicago Tribune ). As Erich Fromm points out, ours is “a life between having and being”—between mere having and healthy being , between destructiveness and creativity, between narcissism and productive self-understanding, between passivity and the joy of positive activity. The alternatives of having and being are basic orientations of our character