The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Episode 133: Erich Fromm on Love as an Art

Feb 8, 2016 · 1 hr 52 min · 107.6 MB

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On Fromm's The Art of Loving (1956). What is love, really? This psychoanalyst of the Frankfurt school thinks that real love is not something one "falls" into, but is an art, an activity, and doing it well requires a disciplined openness and psychological health.

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