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...Fromm called on man to assert himself and begin to ask not what's likely (curiosity), but what's possible (concern...
...talk at the Divinity School Forum touched on an array of topics last night, but although he sandwiched quotes from the Talmud and the Buddha with clinical observations, Erich Fromm always returned to one basic theme: all psychiatric problems are moral problems...
Analysis is moral in that it serves to make man "at home in the world," Fromm continued. But this is not at all the same thing as "adjustment," and analysis must deal with religious, philosophical, and political concerns. Psychoanalysis must help men revolt from a social order "which demands that they not be very human," Fromm insisted...
Analysis is thus allied with a religious tradition which opposes idolatry, "the worship of things by man," Fromm said...
Originally, Paul J. Tillich, University Professor, was scheduled to speak along with Fromm. When he was unable to attend the forum, however, the program was changed to that of a panel discussion with Fromm as leader...