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Carr finds particularly promising the growth of political consciousness in the world. He isn't bothered by the claims of men like Erich Fromm that the rise of modern society has forged an "alienated" man. "People have more education now, and more culture. There is a breaking down of old class barriers. There are more opportunities now, and people are making more of their opportunities. And these are people who once had nothing at all." The historian is daunted in this faith by neither "teenage rowdyism" nor tribal warfare in Africa. "You have to remember that the African countries...
...What I really am," Dr. Blaine contends, "is a Neo-Freudian." This means that he belongs to a group of personality theorists who accept many of Freud's insights, but reject his pan-sexualism, and place emphasis on the conscious mind and cultural determinants. The Neo-Freudians (Fromm, Herney, Erikson, among others) also believe that a psychiatrist should practice "directive therapy"--the therapist should offer concrete advice to his patient, not remain a passive listener. Blaine uses his theory in "short-term psychotherapy," the usual treatment offered by the Health Services. In the program, the student usually comes in once...
...Divine Spark. "The lonely crowd" is part of the language, and the new burdens on the individual are discussed and decried on all sides. Not only by angry, narrow sociologists (the late C. Wright Mills) or sociology's cheap popularizer (Vance Packard), or a Marxist culture quack (Erich Fromm). Speaking for more serious observers, Protestant Theologian Paul Tillich fears that the pressures on the individual to conform and adjust may mean a drift toward collectivism and "authoritarian democracy," that man may become
...concern for the destiny and infinite worth of man, a vision that there could be a day when men would find there was nothing more important to exchange than "trust for trust," was Marx's core of meaning. Fromm, with similar concern, sees the striving for individual self-realization and brotherhood (though they have become more and more unconscious yearnings) eroded, repressed and misdirected with the help of social forces...
When man gives up the struggle for self, he is on the road to giving up reason, freedom and then sanity. What is frightening and "rotten" for Fromm is not primarily the characteristics of middle, upper or lower classes but the general symptom of avoiding the pain of employing reason-the ease with which we turn the Kremlin into a menagerie of monsters devoid of understandable, recognizable human motivations and the West into the faultless frame of reference by which all else is judged...