Greatness And Limitations Of Freud's Thought

Erich Fromm, renowned psychoanalyst, presents in this book a highly stimulating and accessible critique of Sigmund Freud's contributions to modern thought. As the title suggests, Fromm's is a wholeheartedly balanced view, inspired by great admiration for Freud's achievements but with a clear understanding of the preconceptions which blinkered his vision - notably those stemming from the bourgeois materialism of his society, his certainty of the inferiority of women and his inability to conceive of psychical phenomena for which physiological roots could not be demonstrated. The book is a fitting conclusion to a brilliant and valuable career. It punctuates the eloquent, loving, far-reaching message Erich Fromm brought to our generation.