ISBN:
9781501351457
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9781501351440
Language:
English
Pages:
ix, 194 Seiten
Series Statement:
Psychoanalytic horizons
Uniform Title:
Das Leben selbst ist eine Kunst
Parallel Title:
Online-Ausgabe Funk, Rainer, author Life itself is an art
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Funk, Rainer, 1943 - Life itself is an art
DDC:
150.195092
Keywords:
Fromm, Erich
;
Psychoanalysts Biography
;
Psychoanalysts Biography
;
Fromm, Erich 1900-1980
;
Lebenskunst
Abstract:
Introduction: direct encounter -- Roads to the unconscious -- The individual as a social being -- How man succeeds -- How society succeeds at the expense of man -- Ways toward direct encounter.
Abstract:
"Erich Fromm (1900-1980) is known to most readers as the author of the international bestseller The Art of Loving (1956). What may be less widely known is that Fromm was a social psychoanalyst whose psychoanalytic theories, developed around a humanistic concept of man and society, have had a profound impact on many fields and disciplines: on social life and societal organization, on politics, on religion, on psychotherapy and, last but not least, on the practice of mindfulness. Rainer Funk was Erich Fromm's last assistant. He wrote his dissertation about Fromm, was designated by Fromm's last will to be his sole literary executor, and is the editor of Fromm's writings. From his very intimate knowledge of Fromm's life and ideas, and his access to an archive that includes 6,000 letters, Funk introduces Fromm's central concepts and examines them in relation to Fromm's lived experiences and to his idea that life itself is an art. The question of "the art of living" runs through all of the chapters, from the Introduction, in which Funk describes meeting Fromm for the first time in 1972, to the last chapter, in which Funk reflects on the impact of Fromm's social-psychoanalytic writings and his efforts to live well"--
Note:
Translation of: Das Leben selbst ist eine Kunst : Einführung in Leben und Werk von Erich Fromm
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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