Quotes from book
To Have or to Be?

To Have or to Be?
Erich Fromm

To Have or to Be? is a 1976 book by psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, in which he differentiates between having and being. It was originally published in the World Perspectives book series edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen for Harper & Row publishing firm.

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“His concept of the anal character as one that has not reached maturity is in fact a sharp criticism of bourgeois society of the nineteenth century, in which the qualities of the anal character constituted the norm for moral behavior.”

Erich Fromm book To Have or to Be?

"To Have or to Be?" (2005) page 68

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