The Art of Loving

Philosophy. Nonfiction. HTML:The landmark bestseller that changed the way we think about love: "Every line is packed with common sense, compassion, and realism" (Fortune). The Art of Loving is a rich and detailed guide to love�??an achievement reached through maturity, practice, concentration, and courage. In the decades since the book's release, its words and lessons continue to resonate. Erich Fromm, a celebrated psychoanalyst and social psychologist, clearly and sincerely encourages the development of our capacity for and understanding of love in all of its facets. He discusses the familiar yet misunderstood romantic love, the all-encompassing brotherly love, spiritual love, and many more. A challenge to traditional Western notions of love, The Art of Loving is a modern classic about taking care of ourselves through relationships with others by the New York Times�??bestselling author of To Have or To Be? and Escape from Freedom. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erich Fromm including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author's estate… (more)

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LibraryThing member Lukerik

"The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety."

This is the first work of contemporary philosophy that I've read and the assumptions are interesting. There's no attempt to define separateness, nor to prove that there is any other source of anxiety, but

when I read that sentence and the argument that follows it, it rang my bell. Whether it's true or not in all its parts is almost irrelevant as it works for me. Lots of stuff just like this in this book. I would recommend it to other humans.

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LibraryThing member FlyingBarney

A timeless classic about the nature of love as an attitude and a way of being.

LibraryThing member yarnspinner

Every Fromm title is a masterpiece. This small book is an insight into the psychology of interpersonal relations, that, is relevant to all of us. To look at love as an art, to understand the dynamic of relations, Fromm takes us through amazing insight about marriage, self-love, love for your

children and what hard work it is.

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LibraryThing member keylawk

Erich Fromm as a love therapist. Blunt statements about the barriers which society erects between its members and any possible achievement of any kind of love -- parental, brotherly, erotic, onanist, divine. They are all problemmatic.

LibraryThing member ReadandFindOut

2.5 stars. This started out with some really interesting insights that I agreed with, but then gradually went downhill. It was just really dated as a whole, and needs to be updated...

LibraryThing member DrT

The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm

I personally enjoyed this little book, it covers various concepts of love, (brotherly, eros, familial etc,) the drive for love, the unconditional love given by a mother, the masculine connection also the self love, Love that is developed, facilitated, sexual

gratification, drug use seeking pleasure, tracing back to God, how love ought to be developed, the social aspect and developmental aspect.

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LibraryThing member Acia

Dated in places but still an important book on the nature of love.

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