THE ART OF

LOVING
BY ERICH FROMM
MISTAKES TO THE LOVE
1) It is more difficult to be loved than you love.
2) Change the function for the object.
- The object (person) is the best and the most desirable in the market.
- The function is the marriage and its purpose.
3) Stay in love.

THEORY PRACTICE

INTUITION ART
You just do it!
SEPARATENESS
• Absence of love.

• Be independent beings:
experience the loneliless

• Death (volition): born

without wanting to and die
against our wishes.

• Embarrassment.
HOW THE WORLD
PREVENT IT?
• SOCIAL PROBLEMS: ALCOHOLISM,
S UI C I DE, DRUGS , S EXUALI T Y ( T HE
R E S U LT O F T H E F A I L U R E O F T H E U N I Ó N
GROUP)
• R E S I G N AT I O N : R O U T I N E A N D
P R E F A B R I C AT E D .
• AT TA C H M E N T T O T H E M AT E R I A L
 Psychic:
- Psychologically there is the
INDEPENTENT same kind of relationship.

Passive: submission, masochism

SYMBIOTIC - Direct, guide and protect.
UNION - My air I breathe.
(TOGETHER) - He is everything, I am
nothing.
DEPENDENT

Active: domission, sadism

- Dominite, explode, hurt and
humilliate.
 Preserve own integrity MATURE
and individuality. LOVE

Energy use for the

ACTIVITY achievement of
purposes outside.

ACTIONS PASSIONS

- Actives (To give) - Passives (To receive)

- Free, master of his - Driven by motivations.
affection. - Imperceptible
- No compulsion. - E.g. Envy, jealousy,
- E.g. the love. ambition.