Erich Fromm

Erich Fromm was a German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, and philosopher.

Born in 1900, he fled Nazi Germany and settled in the United States.

Fromm was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and helped found The William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology in New York City.

His work uniquely blended Freudian and Marxist theories, exploring the interaction between psychology and society.

Fromm held professorships in psychology in the U.S. and Mexico during the mid-20th century.

He argued that human character was shaped by both biological drives (as per Freud) and social and economic systems (as per Marx).