From Love to the Productive Love. Fromm's Love Thought [从爱到>创造性的爱< - 弗罗姆爱的思想研究], Master thesis, Marxist Theory and Ideological and Political Education, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China 2007.

  • E•弗罗姆(Erich Fromm,1900-1980)是著名的西方马克思主义思想家、法兰克福学派的重要代表人物之一,他站在人本主义立场上,寻找人的主体性解放道路。他综合弗洛伊德的精神分析学说和马克思的劳动异化批判理论,提出自己关于爱的思想。在弗罗姆看来,爱是一种需要,也是一种情感,一种性格倾向。而>创造性的爱<是对人们处境问题的真正解决,是人与自然、他人、自己建立联系的最健康的途径。创造性的爱也是对人的生存困境的解答,是消除异化,实现人类解放的根本途径,是具有创造性倾向和成熟人格的一种能力。掌握爱的艺术,既需要掌握理论,又要亲身实践并终身为此努力。研究弗罗姆爱的思想,学习>创造性的爱<的理论,掌握>爱的艺术<,对促进我国道德建设,构建和谐社会,引导国人、尤其是青年人树立正确的爱情观大有裨益。
  • The love is extremely important in our life, it is the most basic emotion, and it is also the strength of maintains human, national, the family and society. It is not one kind of pleasant sensation, also is not the opportunity question, but is the love that needs the knowledge, diligent, and study. Fromm likes taking in person’s life one kind of positive initiative strength, he thought only this kind of strength to be able to break through him the wall which isolates with the compatriot. He stressed, here said the love is >the productive love<. The so-called productive love, is refers to this kind of love is a person’s potential fully obtains the development the result. This kind of love has to the life concern and the respect emotion experience. It is productive, is one kind of supreme art. Chapter 1, Loves outline. Formerly discussed when loved, the people often focus to the person and the nature, will like merely considering as will be person’s one kind of natural disposition, Instinct. Fromm thought the love is to the human survival question reply. He in >the art of loving< center mentioned, any about the theory which loves, must take person’s theory, human’s survival theory as the beginning. He is precisely embarks from him about the human nature theory, elaborated >the love< has great significance, the person forever faces is overcoming sparsely leaves the feeling, how realizes and the other people fuses, how surmounted the individual life, how found identically. Solves these questions methods to have very many, but most ideal most perfect solution, lies in the love. Fromm criticized has inherited Freud’s theory, also was following the essence which Marx’s person this thought exploration loved. He believed that, can cause the person truly to overcome the separation, only has the productive activity. He thought: >All forms productive work workers all can merge into one organic whole with his object, the person unifies in the production process oneself with the world.< Thus realizes, human’s essential strength object which Marx said. Fromm will like dividing into two kinds of forms, one kind will be not the mature form, namely paragenesis union. Another kind is and the paragenesis form opposite >the mature love<. He thought the mature love is maintains under own dignity and the individuality condition union. The love is person’s one kind of initiative ability, is one kind of break through causes these barriers ability which the person and the person separates, one kind him with other people relation ability. While makes one overcome lonely and separation, likes acknowledging the person own value, maintains own dignity. Fromm further analyzes the essence which loves, thought loves the achievement one kind of initiative ability, its activity should be positive >gives< but should not be negative >accepts<. Chapter 2, Loves transformation. The people are extremely long for to the love, but modern people’s love is not the true love. Therefore, in the modern society person’s love had all sorts of problems, the main performance for the modern people to three kinds of misunderstandings which loves. The modern people majority the question which loves regards as mainly is the question which loves; Likes regarding as is about the object question; Also often >falls into< loves when the river at first experience and exists in the love the lasting condition confuses. Fromm pointed out that, in the modern society also has two kind of false loves. One kind is: Loves is >the nature satisfies< the idea, it is popular after the First World War in the age; another kind is: The love is >the cooperation group< the spirit, it will be the 20th century 50’s later fashionably gets up. At the same time, we also may see some different types in the modern society the morbid state love. The love is the Oedipus complex shift; the love is loves the father complex the shift; idolatry love; sad love; Take projects the mechanism as the foundation love. This all sorts of undeserved kindness, the false love, the metamorphosis love causes the productive love to change urgent and is feasible. Chapter 3, >the productive love< basic connotation. Fromm has made the analysis critique to modern people’s disposition tendency, he proposed normal, is mature, the health disposition tendency, namely productive disposition tendency. The productivity is one kind of basic life manner, is the person in all domains to the object response way, including to other people, to oneself, to thing psychological response way. It cares about the person unique on potential the realization. The productivity is the person utilizes his strength ability, is the realization intrinsic to his on potential ability. According to Fromm’s theory, the true health person is a person which has the productive disposition, deeply loves the life, deeply loves the other people and own and maintains the self-independent person, is person which decides its life style by the life existence. The psychologically healthy person can go loves and creates, can get rid to the family and the natural incest dependence, has the self-identical feeling, can experience own for the main body and own strength inventor, can get rid to the family and the natural incest dependence, has the self-identical feeling, can experience own for the main body and own strength inventor, can grasp oneself intrinsic and the external reality, also is can objectively regard the world and oneself. The love is one kind of initiative thinking activity. Its initiative characteristic manifests is, loves mainly is gives, but is not accepts. A person can give the most precious thing is his life vigor, his happiness and sorrow, he, his understanding, knowledge, wisdom and sense of humor. He has promoted own life feeling, also has promoted another person’s life feeling. Besides gives this fundamental factor, the productive thought also includes some fundamental factors, is the care, the responsibility, the respect and the understanding. Chapter 4, how to cultivates >the productive love<. Loves the main body is a person, must cultivate the person which has the creative love, must first start from the main body. Should unify the cultivation productive love with the cultivation productive disposition; Must fully transfer person’s initiative, positively moves the ability in the person which strengthens loves; Guides the people correctly to process the spouse with to like oneself s relations, with likes in oneself unification in the spouse, achieves the perfect productive love. Fromm believed that, the productive love cultivation and the implementation need to have the certain moral standard to perform to instruct. These moral standards will indicate to the people, how artificial has realized own basic human nature to be supposed to cultivate the love. But cultivates likes having to carry on the radical transformation to the present social system. He thought the western society the structure is disadvantageous to the productive love development. Fromm also pointed out that, the productive love only can depend on oneself practices by oneself, experiences. Because the love is one kind of individual experience, each person only can obtains this kind of experience through oneself and for oneself. Grasps art which loves, carries on practice which loves, except exercises outside the condition which the discipline, the centralism, the patience, the interest and so on all art all must have, but also needs some essential special conditions: First wants >to overcome from loves<, it secondary has >objective and the reason<, again secondary has the belief, finally also must have the positive activity. Chapter 5, commentary on the thought of Fromm. About the productive love principle, about the theory which loves, is in a Fromm entire theory unimportance constituent. In some kind of significance, Fromm about the theory which loves is its overall theory concentration. His critique thought is enlightens the benighted, makes people awaken to the truth. But we have no alternative but soberly to see, his theory also has many insufficiencies. Even if Fromm when studies person’s consciousness, the social disposition, then regards as important cultural society’s factor, but he still regarded as the psychological power the final cause which the society developed, thus was contradictory the solution society, the treatment capitalist society illness key, turned over to it was a love, turned over to it is the spirit, these are completely wrong. Fromm calls self persisted the materialism may also say the main body and the object are inseparable; Criticizes Freud but not to give up he Freud principle the basic standpoint; Attempts to close up the Marxism actually to have bases on the humanitarianism; At the same time the advocation scientific rationality retains the religious mysticism; The hope works loose the capitalism shackles to be possible not to be willing to destroy its politics economic structure; The pursue socialism actually tries hard to cause it to back up from the science to the fantasy. Regardless of were Freud, or Fromm all once spent many painstaking care in to seek consciousness to have >the way and the method<, seeks hid in >the surface<, >falsely< behind power spiritual motive, sought has >was unconscious< in the individual disposition will, >is dependent< fortuitousness. These beneficial explorations, especially Fromm surmounted Freud’s many original opinion. [Author's translation]

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