THE PHENOMENON OF «MASS CONSCIOUSNESS» IN E. FROMM'S PHILOSOPHY

Habriielian A.

doi:10.31435/rsglobal_ws/31072019/6596

Habriielian A. Master of Religious Studies, Ukraine, Kyiv, Dragomanov National Pedagogical University Applicant of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31435/rsglobal_ws/31072019/6596

Keywords: Mass Consciousness, Humanistic Radicalism, Erich Fromm, destructiveness, aggressiveness, conformism, psychoanalysis, social unconscious, society, existence, personality, humanistic ethics

Abstract

In this article, the author considered the concept of «Mass Consciousness» in the philosophy of Erich Fromm. The phenomenon of «Mass Consciousness» was studied from the standpoint of E. Fromm’s «Humanistic Radicalism», and was analyzed in comparison with classical Freudian psychoanalysis and other prominent thinkers of the twentieth century. It was found that according to Erich Fromm's social psychoanalysis, aggression is the result of social exclusion, mass consciousness, and conformism. The prevention of these phenomena can only be realized by a healthy humanistic society, in which faith, hope, love, understanding, sanity, mutual respect, empathy that cannot be explained by human instincts.

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