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The Art of Loving

By: Erich Fromm
Narrated by: Nathan McMillan
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The renowned psychoanalyst and social philosopher Erich Fromm has helped millions of men and women achieve rich, productive lives by developing their hidden capacities for love. In this astonishingly frank and candid book, he explores the ways in which this extraordinary emotion can alter the whole course of your life.

Most of us are unable to develop our capacities for love on the only level that really counts — a love that is compounded of maturity, self-knowledge, and courage. Learning to love, like other arts, demands practice and concentration. Even more than any other art, it demands genuine insight and understanding.

In this classic work, Fromm explores love in all its aspects - not only romantic love, steeped in false conceptions and lofty expectations, but also love of parents, children, brotherly love, erotic love, self-love, and the love of God.

©2006 Erich Fromm (P)2020 Erich Fromm Love, Dating & Attraction Psychology Relationships Psychology & Mental Health
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I have asked for this audio book from Audible several of times for near a decade now. Its a book I wish to re-read often, but don't get to due to my limited time to read eyeball to page.

One of my favorite Fromm books, The Art of Loving is one that has one gem of insight after another, so that you can end up highlighting the whole book. In plain English, I saw an explanations for why I instinctively knew that orientations such as domination and submission aren't really love as such, as one example. This book clearly elucidates why love can either form a strong foundation for the human's personality and actions in the world, or how they can become malformed and misdirect one's energies.

Very progressive and deeply insightful for a book written in the 1950's before some of these concepts such as that of having a male and female archetype and orientation in every person (I'm guessing) may have been generally accepted. There are two sentences about homo-sexuality that I believe are misdirected, but beyond that the insights of this book are brilliant.

Thank you Audible for getting this book into my library! Now I can re-read / listen to this book to my heart's content!

The reader is pretty decent. Perhaps better than decent. I am in that overly critical stage that happens when you get an audio book that you've been waiting a long time for.

Finally! I've been asking for this book for YEARS

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This book provided a fair perspective of what love might be if you did not have God at the center. I thought it provided interesting insight on how consumerism in modern effects affect our reality of love and believe that it hits very closely to a faith-based center of love. Although this book is close it puts the individual at the center of one's capability to love and for someone who is naturally loving this may seem a possibility but as someone who suffers from selfishness pride and other short fallings find this very improbable to truly love without God at the center. I would recommend starting with the origin of love the Bible and other works however if you're looking for a secular view or to understand a secular view this is a good starting point.

A point of view of love

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a great book that addresses the ailments of the human condition while exploring its cure...not for shallow thinkers or slow learners...and even for the swift a manuscript due to be read a minimum of three times

what is love?!?!?

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So hard to listen to, there where no expression, it was like hearing a robot. I know it’s not fiction, but you need expressions to listen.

The horrible and emotionless reading.

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A great read. There is so much real life wisdom in this book, so much to ponder about it.

Very real and informative

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