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The Word of God and the Psychiatrist

  • Sociologists psychiatrists, psychotherapists and psychologists tell us that love – human and divine – is the ultimate practical answer to the individual and social problems of society. But is this not what the Gospel and the theology of St. Thomas tell us, tracing the moral life, natural and supernatural, as a return to God motivated by love? Failure to love is the root of anxiety and frustration; it is the failure to become a human being. We can best learn about human love from the findings of the social scientist among whom Erich FROMM and his The Art of Loving may be taken as representative. For him, the activity of love always implies the basic elements of care, responsibility, respect and knowledge. In marriage love is not the result of sexual happiness but rather sexual happiness is the result of love. This exposition invites comparison with the Thomistic distinction between love of concupiscence and love of friendship for it is only in the love of friendship that the elements of love, enumerated above, can be found.

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Author:J. A. Campbell
Parent Title (English):Dominicana, Vol. 46 (1961), pp. 17-24.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:1961
Release Date:2012/12/13
Format:PDF-scan upon request / PDF-Scan auf Anfrage
IdNo:Campbell_J_A_1961
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Articles / Artikel
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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