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Erich Fromm (Born March 23, 1900, Frankfurt am Main, Germany—died March 18, 1980, Muralto, Switzerland) is well known not only as a psychoanalyst and social psychologist but also as an important representative of 20th century humanism. Erich Fromm’s humanistic psychoanalysis looks at people from the perspective of psychology, history, and anthropology. Influenced by Freud and Horney, Fromm developed a more culturally oriented theory than Freud and a much broader theory than Horney. Fromm believed that humans have been torn away from their prehistoric union with nature and left with no powerful instincts to adapt to a changing world. But because humans have acquired the ability to reason, they can think about their isolated condition—a situation Fromm called the human dilemma. The strength of Fromm’s theory is his lucid writings on a broad range of human issues. As a scientific theory, however, Fromm’s theory rates very low on its ability to generate research and to lend itself to falsification; it rates low on usefulness to the practitioner, internal consistency, and parsimony. Because it is quite broad in scope, Fromm’s theory rates high on organizing existing knowledge. Fromm describes three ways in which we tend to escape from freedom:-
1. Authoritarianism
Freedom is achieved by merging oneself with others, that happens by becoming a part of the authoritarian system. This includes, either being submissive and compliant to the power of others. Being passive about someone 's authority over you. Or being the authority yourself and imposing your system over others and leading them on a path. Either way, you elude your separate identity. Extreme version of authoritarianism was referred to as Masochism or Sadism by Fromm, each compelled to play their descrete role, with Sadist 's evident power over the Masochist, he isn 't free to choose his actions either.
2. Destructiveness
Authoritarians tend to eliminate themselves in the face of their agonizing

Citations: 1- http://psychemdb.blogspot.com/2012/01/erich-fromms-psychoanalytic-theory.html 2- http://allpsych.com/personalitysynopsis/fromm.html 3- http://www.drrogerwalsh.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Theories-of-Personality-Psychopathology-Fromm-Allport-Murray-goldstein-Maslow-Murphy-Lewin-Gestalt-Lacan-Cattell-Skinner-Ken-Wilber.pdf 4- http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072316799/student_view0/part2/chapter7/chapter_outline.html