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    The Dogma of Christ: and Other Essays on Religion, Psychology and Culture

    By Erich Fromm

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    The essays in this fascinating volume examine present-day psychological and cultural problems with the keen insight and humanistic sympathies characteristic of Erich Fromm’s work.
     
    The Dogma of Christ and Other Essays provides some of the sharpest critical insights into how the contemporary world of human destructiveness and violence can no longer separate religion, psychology and politics. The book brilliantly summarizes Fromm’s ideas on how culture and society shape our behavior.


    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateDec 9, 2014
    ISBN9781497693920
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    Erich Fromm

    Erich Fromm (1900–1980) was a bestselling psychoanalyst and social philosopher whose views about alienation, love, and sanity in society—discussed in his books such as Escape from Freedom, The Art of Loving, The Sane Society, and To Have or To Be?—helped shape the landscape of psychology in the mid-twentieth century. Fromm was born in Frankfurt, Germany, to Jewish parents, and studied at the universities of Frankfurt, Heidelberg (where in 1922 he earned his doctorate in sociology), and Munich. In the 1930s he was one of the most influential figures at the Frankfurt Institute of Social Research. In 1934, as the Nazis rose to power, he moved to the United States. He practiced psychoanalysis in both New York and Mexico City before moving to Switzerland in 1974, where he continued his work until his death.

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      This is a collection of essays with ideas that I've mostly seen from him in other books like "Escape from Freedom," "The Art of Loving," and "The Forgotten Language." The titular essay was interesting, but something I had previously studied so not very compelling. He tracks how Christianity changed from a rebellious apocalyptic religion into a population control mechanism perpetuated by the religious elite. Probably the most interesting essays are "Sex and Character," which discusses the characterological differences between men and women stemming from their sexual differences, and "Psychoanalysis: Science or Party Line?" in which he discusses the internal petty politics that led to the breakup of Freud's supergroup of psychiatrists.