[FRA:] Fromm in the Garden of Eden

[Ralph Dumain]

As it turns out, there is a significant treatment in /Escape from 
Freedom/, I imagine Fromm's first in English. Not surprising I would 
remember his treatment, as I read this book several times as a teenager. 
So, here is my list of significant references.

Fromm, Erich. /Escape from Freedom/. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1941. 
In Britain: /The Fear of Freedom/ 
<http://realsociology.edublogs.org/files/2013/09/erich-fromm-the-fear-of-freedom-escape-from-freedom-29wevxr.pdf>, 
1942; see pp. 27-28.

__________. /Psychoanalysis and Religion/ [1950] (New York: Bantam 
Books, 1967), pp. 41-42.

__________. /The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the 
Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths /(New York: Grove Press, 
1957 [1951]), pp. 234-235.

__________. /Marx's Concept of Man/ (New York: Frederick Ungar 
Publishing Company, 1961), Chapter 6, Marx's Concept of Socialism 
<http://www.marxists.org/archive/fromm/works/1961/man/ch06.htm>.

__________. /You Shall Be as Gods: A Radical Interpretation of the Old 
Testament and Its Traditions 
<http://www.scribd.com/doc/18368300/Fromm-Erich-You-Shall-Be-as-Gods-A-Radical-Interpretation-of-the-Old-Testament-and-Its-Traditions>/. 
New York: Fawcett Premier / Ballantine, 1966. See pp. 21-23, 57-58, 96-98.

    Summary: Naomi Sherer reviews...
    <http://salmonriver.com/Books/fromm.htm>/You Shall Be As Gods
    <http://salmonriver.com/Books/fromm.htm>/by Eric Fromm
    <http://salmonriver.com/Books/fromm.htm>.

__________. "On Disobedience 
<http://eqi.org/fromm.htm#On%20Disobedience>" [excerpt] (1984).




On 10/10/2013 8:24 PM, Ralph Dumain wrote:
> 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.
>>
>