Study On Erich Fromm’s Thought Of The Sane Society

Erich Fromm was a famous psychologist and philosopher and sociologist, is alsoa Western Marxist and Franck school main representative figure and the founder ofthe Freudians in the2oth century. He made a great contribution to the theorists,especially in sane society thoughts. The reason why the thoughts could causewide-attention and research enthusiasm is that it alert all the people to pay attention toour living-word. Although the objects that were the modern Western capitalistsociety’s many problems was criticized by Erich Fromm, he gave us a newperspective that could determine whether our society was sane. This article willchoose the thought as the object of study and try to do a complete exploration, inorder to to reveal its inner thoughts and realistic value.This paper made an overall analysis of Fromm’s perfect Society and its basiccontent from the perspective of social background, theoretical origin, theoretical basisand theoretical structure. On this basis, this paper analyzed the theoreticalimagination and the realization approach related to Fromm’s perfect Society from thefour dimensions of humanity, social character, social mind and affection. In Fromm’sview, Modern capitalism that represented prosperity was in fact a morbid societywherein humanity alienation, alienation of social personality and psychology andemotive alienation were the fundamental source of this morbidity. Thus, in order tocorrect the morbid society, we have to understand the way that humanity, socialcharacter, social mind and affection were alienated and the representation of them. Bythose explorations, we could learn what a sane society should possess. In this paper,Fromm provided us with a reasonable approach to build a sane society from the four aspects I mentioned above.Judging from the overall theoretical characteristics, the sane social thought ofFromm has some features, which is the striking Utopian color on the targets，theethicality on the value orientation, the subjective theory of revolution on the way ofrealization, and the abstract criticalness on the theoretical approaches. Fromm’sbiggest theoretical contribution was he used Freudian psychoanalysis for his sanesocial thought. He combined Freud psychoanalysis theory and the Social Theory ofMarxism to analysis the alienation in modern capitalist society and classify it intofour cases. Thus he revealed the ills of modern western society and provided newperspective to cognize the changes of capitalism accurately. Otherwise he creativelyproposed Freudian Marxism. All of this promoted the diversified development ofcontemporary foreign Marxism. Of course, Fromm’s Social sane thoughts have itstheoretical limitations. The idealism in theory; Exaggerating and emphasizing socialrole of the psychological factors and then denying the fundamental laws of history.His critical approach was limited in Epistemological field and ignored the practice ofMarxism Horizon critique. The approach cause him fall into misunderstanding ofSubjective Reflections on the Revolution.