@article{Hardeck, author = {Hardeck, J{\"u}rgen}, title = {Fact and Fiction about Erich Fromm's Life and Work}, series = {R. Funk and N. McLaughlin (Eds.), Towards a Human Science. The Relevance of Erich Fromm for Today, Giessen (Psychosozial-Verlag) 2015, pp. 73-90.}, journal = {R. Funk and N. McLaughlin (Eds.), Towards a Human Science. The Relevance of Erich Fromm for Today, Giessen (Psychosozial-Verlag) 2015, pp. 73-90.}, abstract = {Many authors have written about Erich Fromm since Rainer Funk published a German Collected Works of Erich Fromm in 1980/1981. Regrettably, however, there have also been many (intentional?) misunderstandings and misinterpretations as well as conscious distortions by former colleagues of the Institute for Social Research as well as by many practitioners of the school of orthodox psychoanalysis; these have often been adopted uncritically by their disciples and various authors and have continued to exert their influence until to the present day. In my paper I shall discuss some of the main mistakes, that I found, made in biographies on Erich Fromm and in publications about Fromm's role at the Institute for Social Research and histories of his contributions to psychoanalysis.}, language = {en} }