Erich Fromm (Frankfurt, 1900 - Switzerland 1980). He began studying law but quickly moved to the University of Heidelberg to study sociology and later to Berlin to study psychoanalysis cursas. In 1930 he was invited by Max Horkheimer to head the Department of Psychology of the Institute of Sociology at Frankfurt. And in 1934, after the Nazi climbing, flees to America.
In 1943 he was one of the founding members of the New York branch of the Washington School of Psychiatry, after which he worked with the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology. In the early sixties he held a professorship at Michigan State University. He retired in 1965 and moved to Switzerland where he died.
Erich Fromm is considered one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, especially for his ability to combine the depth and simplicity in an accessible and transparent style. His theory comes from the mixture of the religious roots of his family and the combination of Freud, the unconscious, and Marx the social determinism.
Fromm added to the equation the idea of ​​freedom.
During the 40 Fromm developed an important editorial work, publishing several books considered classics then about the authoritarian tendencies of contemporary society. He is the author of The love of life, the human condition, The Art of Listening or the have to be between 20 works published editions Paidós.