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This article presents a research on the reception of Erich Fromm’s ideas in Bulgaria. The criticism of Fromm’s ideas is presented and an attempt is made to evaluate it according to its context – ideological, psychological and philosophical. The author aims at explaining the theoretical and substantive side of the criticism.
>Each society develops a categorization system, which fixes the shape of the consciousness, by means of society’s vital practice and its essential ways to feel, take in and to correspond itself with the world.< This system fixes the shapes of the consciousness and acts like a social filter. Formulation of the conception >social character< – for a reason to safe the society, it should shape its citizen’s wishes in a way that they should wish to do what is in their duty to do.
Social character
(2017)
The paper presents a study of the social character of 16 people with an adapted version of the social character questionnaires developed by Erich Fromm and Michael Maccoby (Fromm & Maccoby 1970b) and Rainer Funk and colleagues (Fromm-Gesellschaft 1995). The difficulties during the analysis of the responses are described and the main cultural differences that are responsible for these difficulties are analyzed.