Escape from Freedom

Erich Fromm is an outstanding thinker of the 20th century and one of the founders of neo-Freudianism. Fromm’s works are widely popular around the world—while he was still alive, his key writings on ethical and socio-psychological issues of human nature underwent dozens of reprints in million-copy print runs. In his famous work “Escape from Freedom,” Erich Fromm tried to understand why, despite the abundance of material goods and democratic achievements, people increasingly feel tempted to give up their freedom in favor of political dictatorship… turning into a small cog in a machine: not a free person, but a well-fed and well-dressed automaton.”