Dante and the being mode
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Dante and the being mode
When Erich Fromm meets Dante's Divine Comedy
In his 1976 book 'To Have or to Be', the German-American psychoanalyst and philosopher Erich Fromm introduced the distinction between two fundamental human orientations towards the world and the self: the 'having' mode and the 'being' mode.
In the 'having' mode, individuals focus on posses…
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