The Sane Society is a continuation and extension of the brilliant psychiatric concepts Erich Fromm first formulated in Escape from Freedom ; it is also, in many ways, an answer to Freud\'s Civilization and its Discontents .
In so doing, he counters the profound pessimism for our future that Freud expressed and sets forth the goals of a Society in which the emphasis is on each person and on the social measures designed to further function as a responsible individual..
Here Fromm offers a complete and systematic exploration of his humanistic psychoanalysis.
Fromm examines man\'s escape into overconformity and the danger of robotism in contemporary industrial society: modern humanity has, he maintains, been alienated from the world of their own creation.
The Sane Society is a continuation and extension of the brilliant psychiatric concepts Erich Fromm first formulated in Escape from Freedom ; it is also, in many ways, an answer to Freud\'s Civilization and its Discontents
