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SO nee ne eT GCL Oe Cena ane dl et le dee a ee ee niet i tie ole ee ' ©. . . . cd ~ NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOUNDATION BUILD THE EARTH NEW SPHERE SEQUOIA SEMINARS FOUNDATION "THE COMMUNITY" : . ~ wt Bet eer oh ee whe ae Me a nt ee ee ERICH FROMM Since both Build the Earth and the National Initia~- tive Foundation leaders assign works by Erich Fromm, the source read his works and critiques extensively and * researched his associations. rea J Erich} From studied sociology and psychology at the Universitie f Munich, Frankfort, and Heidiberg. He was trained in psychoanalysis at the Psychoanalytic Institute in Berlin. Since 1926, he has been engaged in theoretical investigation and consulting psychology and has lectured at Columbia, Yale, Bennington, the William White Institute for Psychiatry, and the New School for Social Research. In 1963, he was a profereor af paysholrgy <t NY! and professor of psychoanalysis at the National University of Mexico where he still lives. Noted humanist philosopher, CORLISS LAMONT, a member of the American Humanist Association, Lists Fromm as a naturalistic humanist and also as a "humanist psychologist" together with ABRAHAM H. MASLOW. In fact Lamont says that Maslow and Fromm provide churches away to "save face" by stating that religious experiences are possibie in a natural- ized and humanized setting and that eventually the churches, which have battled humanism so fiercely, may try to say that Fromm and Maslow's ideas are what they meant all the time. In Lamont's opinion Erich Fromm is one of the contemporary leaders of "humanism." Fromm states that "Marxism is humanism" and has as its goal the full realization of the potential- ities of man. He pleas for Marxist thought to incorporate a "dialectically and humanistically oriented psychoanalysis." He further states that Marxism needs such a theory and that psychoanalysis needa to incorporate genuine Marxist theory. Erich Fromm, (Ed.) “The Application of Humanist Psychoanalysis to Marx's Theory," Socialist . Humanism, Garden City, New York: Anchor Books Edition, 1966, p. 228-245. (Originally published by Doubleday, 1965.) - 9 =