About this title: This distinguished 1973 work by the esteemed psychoanalyst and social philosopher Erich Fromm reads between behaviorism and instinctivism to dissect the psychology behind human immorality.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780030075964ISBN:0030075963
Description: Good in GOOD. jacket. First Edition. MAY HAVE COVER WEAR, SPINE CREASES, HIGHLIGHTING, UNDERLINING & PAGES YELLOWED FROM AGE. FASTER SERVICE FROM US! ! ! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
ISBN-13:9780030075964ISBN:0030075963
Description: Fair. 0030075963 Condition: ACCEPTABLE. (Book has a combination of the following characteristics: former library book, heavy cover wear, name written inside cover, considerable underlining/highlighting, remainder mark, pages tanning / curling, etc. Overall, the book is in rough shape and should only be purchased as a reading copy. This is a blanket description. Please email us if you require a specific, detailed description of the book condition. We will typically respond within one week of ... read more
Edition: 1st
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, N. Y.
Date Published: 1976
Description: Cover Art. Very Good. No Jacket. Trade Paperback. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. The cover has creases on the back...Price stamped on the first page...Very small amount of underling....The book may have minor flaws that may have gone unnoticed...... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Holt McDougal
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780030075964ISBN:0030075963
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Light edge and corner wear on dj. No marks. Tight binding. Some rubbing on dj. 521 p. Audience: General/trade; General/trade. read more
Description: Very Good in lightly worn and price-clipped jacket. 0030075963. NY: Holt, [1973]. 1st Edition. xvi+[4]+521+[3]pp. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering. A very good copy in lightly worn and price-clipped dust jacket. 2 pounds 2.0 ounces = 968 grams. 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.6 inches = 23 x 15.5 x 4cm. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Holt Rinehart And Winston Inc, New York
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780030075964ISBN:0030075963
Description: Good. EX-LIBRARY. EXPECTED MARKINGS AND ATTACHMENTS. BLACK CLOTH COVER, SPINE ENDS LIGHTLY BUMPED. INTERIOR PAGES HAVE SLIGHT STAINING AND LIGHT FINGERING TO MARGINS. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Fawcett Columbine, New York
Date Published: 1975
Description: Very Good. 4 x 7. In very good, clean and unmarked condition; pages lightly tanning, cover shows light wear. The famous psychoanalyst discusses the haunting problem of man's lust for cruelty. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart & Winston
Date Published: 1973
Description: Good. Dust cover is rubbed and torn. Underlining on less than 10 pages. Name embossed on blank front paper. Binding/corners are fine.. read more
Edition: Revised and Revised ed.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780805016048ISBN:080501604X
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. clean text, tight binding, minor shelf wear to cover/corners, nice reading copy, help support independent booksellers! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 240 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Holt, Reinhart, and Winston, New York
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780030075964ISBN:0030075963
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Cover slightly rubbed with corners and spine bumped and slightly worn. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Fawcett Publications, Inc., Greenwich CT
Date Published: 1975
Description: Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Wraps are scuffed with light wear, creasing along spine edge. Pages are clean & text is free from markings. All pages secure in binding. read more
Description: ISBN: 0030075963, 1973, Holt, Rihenart, Winston, 521 pp. Hardcover. Third Printing from 1974. Very good book in good dust jacket. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780030075964ISBN:0030075963
Description: Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Jacket scuffed with light edgewear. Boards have minor shelfwear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. read more
"My FIRST reading of this book was when it was first published in 1973. And now I read it again. I had read other books by Erich Fromm and was reading different approaches to Psychology. It is said that Fromm was a pioneer in theoretical works with "deep insight" into the the human psyche. As you can see by the title, he explores the dark side of the huiman psyche with quotes, references, comparisons, and rebuttals of the works of others. In the last part of this text, he discusses, "Malignant Aggression: Adolph Hitler, A Clinical Case of Necrophilia". Hitler's story falls into the very dark side of human psychology. The end pages of Fromm's analysis of Hitler bear the warning of "the fallacy which prevents people from recognizing potential Hitlers before they have shown their true faces." This is followed by a brief epilogue entitled, THE AMBIGUITY OF HOPE. Then finally, he places as an appendix, Freud's Theory of Aggresiveness and Destructiveness. Fromm actually makes psychology understandable, even this dark side."
"During the summer between college and my first graduate school I worked as a security guard for Chicago's Womens' Athletic Club on Ontario and Michigan Avenues in the Gold Coast area. The job had been obtained for me, and others of our friends, by Mike and Tom Miley whose mother, Helen, was working as the business manager there. After graduating from seminary she was kind enough to employ me again until I found more regular work.
The position at the club was a peach. My duties consisted of guarding the service entrance, the most onerous part of which was having to arrive before the other workers did early in the morning. Other than saying "hello" to folks as they came in, there really wasn't much to do but go off to Stuart Brent books around the corner during the lunch break. Very occasionally I'd be given some stupid paperwork, but mostly I just read while sitting in an exceptionally uncomfortable chair near the time cards and service elevator and just under the service stairway. I must have read a hundred books that summer, often more than one in an eight-hour day.
Once in a while I would listen to the radio--most memorably for WFMT's multipart lecture by Erich Fromm on human aggressiveness, a series which led to the purchase of his book on the subject."
"I feel like I should actually fill out the "what i learned part" for this book because it really has taught me so much and had I read this earlier in life I may have gone ahead and done research for the social sciences. Apart from a very lucid and clear overview of the debate about human nature in the biological and sociological sciences, there is a lot of critical insight into Freud and his unsuccessful but important failure to reconcile all his theories with his desire to save the human race from total destruction. In this book is also a huge clinical study of Hitler, as well as other members of the SS and Stalin. (Hitler used his diploma as toilet paper when he was really drunk the night he graduated.) There is also a lot of information about necrophilia and necro-dreams which are always about tombs or finding limbs floating in bathtubs with with feces or like defecating so hard that world explodes, very undecorously. There is really so much information in this book. Animal behavior studies about chimps where they cant decide if they should follow their mate in the forest, or grab the bunch of bananas that was placed their by observers and how people observed the chimp running back and forth unable to decide what to do to the motto of the Falangist troops in Spain which was "Long Live Death" and the scary scary though that technology is running its own course now and we are not a part of it. There was also this part about how zoo's make animals lethargic and depressed and how in zoos or cages crowding at a water hole makes animals extremely aggressive whereas in the wild there is much more "crowding" at watering holes but minimal violence and then yup, Fromm goes all the way and suggests that humans in urban civilization have been living in zoos, or at least in contaminated soil so that many people do not develop properly. If you have dreams where you crawl into a tomb and then puncture a robotic cable and blood starts shooting out all over the place it probably symbolizes that machinery is sucking the life out of man and even though we're all more or less clones at this point anyway pretty soon we might be robots all together. I want to read some Ray Kurzweil next so I can get in on the cyborg revolution."
"This a book showing that human is more violent than animal. The more "civilized", the more violent he becomes. When reading this book, I remember a National Geographic episode showing the most dangerous cat variety. Can you imagine that tiger and lion are second to house-cat? House cat kills anything, while tiger and lion merely kill their food. Just like human, don't you think?"
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