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  • adjective Of or pertaining to the altruistic social theories of sociologist Erich Fromm (1900-1980).

Etymologies

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Fromm +‎ -ian

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Examples

  • Instead he gives a simple, therapeutic (neo-Freudian, Erich Frommian) message: It doesn't matter what your parents did; you create your own life.

    Out of Our Dreams 2002

  • Instead he gives a simple, therapeutic (neo-Freudian, Erich Frommian) message: It doesn't matter what your parents did; you create your own life.

    Out of Our Dreams 2002

  • Or perhaps it's merely because Coward had always more or less regarded them as figures of fun, as in the affectionate "Louisa," all about one of those prototypical Hollywood females with Frommian malheurs:

    Whipped Cream Mazzocco, Robert 1968

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