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The fruitful philosophical thought of Erich Fromm reaching into the onto¬logical secrets of man’s native guaranteed essence by duality of possession and being in their dialectic opposition is important and yet sufficiently unexplored source of value paradigms of the social work science. Fromm’s thought opens up for the humanities of social work the issues of human totality and to him immanent existential teleology the aspects of which are practically met on a daily basis by social workers without them being aware of it. In that context social work (spontaneous through professional one) presents a particular type of prevailing/existing asceticism (self-abnegation) in which historical- civili¬zation roots have settled the principles of activity self-creation, inter-humanitarian sharing, commonness, mutuality, solidarity and love as pivotal bases of existential sense and joy.
The theory of Erich Fromm considers man on special type of social character which makes him to look upon other man as wares, and to run away from freedom and love. This kind of society degenerated man's humane potentials and with many mechanisms, turned him away from the so-called productive orientation. While speaking about man Erich Fromm certainly has woman in mind too. His whole work shows the way he describes man-woman relationships and a place he attributes to love. In the socalled productive love he found the only 'sound' reply to question of human existence, for such a love fulfills basic human need for outer personal union and yet remain two, enriching their personalities at the same time. Erich Fromm did not consider man-woman relationships in social production, education and politics, but he did consider personal, marital, and family spheres. Since the focus of Fromm's theory is man, it is society that must be adapted to him, and reality of modern capitalism with people considered as wares, automate without their own thoughts and emotions, inclined to possession and quantification, must be changed.
Erich Fromm combined doctoral training in social psychology with decades of active psychoanalytic practice and teaching. His work emphasized ethics, insight, strength of character and ways to mitigate the darker side of human nature. Fromm's books, including Man for Himself (1947), The Sane Society (1955), The Art of Loving (1956), The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973) and To Have or To Be? (1976), were widely popular during his lifetime and remain applicable today. The Clinical Erich Fromm: Personal Accounts and Papers (2009), part of a series on Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies, fills a historical gap concerning Fromm's practice as a psychoanalyst. The book was meticulously edited by Funk who worked closely with Fromm and is >sole proprietor< of the Fromm archives in Tuebingen, Germany. Twenty-three notable contributors include Ralph Crowley, Marianne Horney Eckardt, Charles Feldstein, Anne Gourevich, Gérard Khoury, Michael Maccoby, Salvador Millán.