Erich Fromm's "the Sane Society" Theory And Its Enlightenments To The Establishment Of Harmonious Society

Erich Fromm is a famous German-American humanism philosopher and psychoanalysis psychologist philosopher,and an important representative figure of Frankfurt School in the 20th century.He devoted all his life to amend Freud's psychoanalysis analysis theory with the westerners' spiritual situation after the two world wars,and was honored as one of the founders of "psychoanalysis sociology".Fromm regarded "humanism psychoanalysis" as the weapon,seeing through the capitalist bizarre and motley social phenomenon,criticizing its various kinds of alienation phenomena,setting up a sane society.The book THE SANE SOCIETY concentrated his view and striving direction,the book analyzed and criticized to the alienation phenomenon of the capitalist social being, and proposed the road leading to the sane society.This article consists of three parts.In the first part,it introduced the society and historical background,and thought source of Erich Fromm's sane society theory.The second part,also the core part of this paper,mainly introduced the basic theory of Fromm's "the sane society",and provides a brief analysis of the problems of this theory.According to Fromm's theory, a sane society is not just the normal operation of a variety of society functions.The third part is also the last part and practical significance of this article.Despite the neglect of Fromm's theory to the development of productive forces,the criticism of capitalism isn't profound enough,but it is for the one-sided emphasis on economic growth to correct the abnormal development concept,to establish the idea of people-oriented instructive; for a correct understanding of contemporary capitalism new changes,so that to be a certain reference of the healthy development of the socialist cause.The most importance is,the sane social theory of Fromm is characterized by attention to the spirit of healthy people,which shows that both the sane and harmonious society or community is not just a question of transforming the objective world,but also transformation of people's subjective world,the building of great importance to social development in the process of subjective psychological and spiritual factors,such as avoiding physical and chemical phenomena caused by the vacuum of belief and emotion,that builds a socialist spiritual civilization and harmonious society an important practical significance.The building of a harmonious society can not be separated from building a harmonious individual. Therefore,our theoretical and practical task is to look into Western theories of social theory,including Erich Fromm one dividing into two,taking analysis,criticism and learn attitude,from Fromm's ideal as a democratic capitalist "the sane society" to the real sane utopian society,that is,a harmonious socialist society.In this paper,the last part of the discussion on the harmonious society is the analysis,criticism and learns from the results of the concrete reality.