[FRA:] Fromm in the Garden of Eden

[Ralph Dumain]

Thanks to both responders.

You'd think that a whole book devoted to Biblical interpretation would 
have what I was looking for, but as far as I can determine, the 
treatment of Adam & Eve's transgression and expulsion from Eden is only 
cursorily treated in///You Shall Be As Gods/.

Fromm repeats his basic ideas in many of his writings. I read them all 
40 years ago or more so my memory of what I read where has vanished. The 
most complete account should include:

(1) break from unity with nature
(2) consciousness of nakedness, self-consciousness
(3) must move forward, not regress.
(4) Expulsion necessary for progress, to become human.

The aforementioned book deals with most of these points, but leaves out 
(2), and it says more about God's anger than about unity with nature.  I 
seem to remember seeing a complete interpretation by Fromm somewhere. 
I'm not seeing it in /Psychonalysis and Religion/, /The Forgotten 
Language/, or . . . . I think I checked /The Dogma of Christ/, but I 
can't remember.

On 10/8/2013 4:22 PM, Lev Lafayette wrote:
> On Wed, October 9, 2013 2:41 am, Ralph Dumain wrote:
>> I've looked through some of Erich Fromm's writings on religion, but I
>> haven't nailed what I'm looking for.  I need Fromm's most complete
>> analysis of the myth of Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit and
>> getting expelled from Eden. His interpretation is summarized in various
>> places, but I can't remember where I read his treatment.
> "You Shall Be As Gods: A Radical Interpretation of the Old Testament and
> Its Tradition" is what you're looking for.
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