The Long
Insurgency

Dossier · 1927–1929

Erich Fromm

Social psychology enters Marxist research

Chronology

1927–1929

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2 dated events
  1. Fromm begins psychoanalytic practice Reported · Source 1, p. 54; PDF pp. 123–124
  2. Fromm lectures on psychology and sociology Reported · Source 1, p. 55; PDF pp. 125–126

Influence

Fromm’s role helps explain the Institute’s turn toward social psychology. His later American books and their readers need a separate study of reception. The present sources establish the early contribution, rather than a direct line to every later use of psychology on the Left. [1], pp. 54–60