In To Have or to Be? (1976), psychoanalyst Erich Fromm differentiates between having and being. Fromm writes that modern society has become materialistic and prefers “having” to “being” mentioning the great promise of unlimited happiness, freedom, material abundance, and domination of nature. These hopes reached their highs when the industrial age began. One could feel that there would be
erich fromm: to have or to be? (ebook)
