by Erich Fromm · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475090450
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«El miedo a la libertad» is the essay by psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, published by Alfaguara in paperback (281 pages, in Spanish).
Erich Fromm analyzes the paradox of modern freedom: a conquest experienced as a burden that awakens the desire to escape. He points to two escape routes: the political, with fascism, and the sociocultural, with the standardization of the individual. The resulting anguish drives submission and conformism, keys to understanding totalitarianism.
Originally published in 1941 as Escape from Freedom, the essay appeared in Spanish with a preface and translation by Gino Germani.
A reference work for readers interested in social psychology, philosophy and the analysis of totalitarianism.
Erich Seligmann Fromm was a German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was a German Jew who fled the Nazi regime and settled in the United States. He was one of the founders of The William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology in New York City and was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.
