“Chronic boredom — compensated or uncompensated — constitutes one of the major psychopathological phenomena in contemporary technotronic society, although it is only recently that it has found some recognition.”

— Erich Fromm

Source: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973), p. 273

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German social psychologist and psychoanalyst 1900–1980

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