Freud, admittedly in the name of science, did not believe in non-sexual love.
"Freud constructed a "model of human nature." This model was constructed in the spirit nineteenth-century materialistic thought. Man is conceived as a machine, driven by a relatively constant amount of sexual energy called "libido."
Eric Fromm, writing in his book "Beyond the Chains of Illusion: My Encounter with Marx and Freud."
Eric Fromm, to his credit, was not an unquestioning disciple of Freud, if he was a disciple at all.
Eric Fromm was a psychologist who worked from some of the perspectives of Freud, but who was definitely distinct from him.
Eric Fromm did believe in non-sexual love. But he was not religious and he saw himself as working in a scientific tradition - as did Freud.
I think it is obvious that on this question Freud was also wrong and discovered nothing whatsoever.
"Freud constructed a "model of human nature." This model was constructed in the spirit nineteenth-century materialistic thought. Man is conceived as a machine, driven by a relatively constant amount of sexual energy called "libido."
Eric Fromm, writing in his book "Beyond the Chains of Illusion: My Encounter with Marx and Freud."
Eric Fromm, to his credit, was not an unquestioning disciple of Freud, if he was a disciple at all.
Eric Fromm was a psychologist who worked from some of the perspectives of Freud, but who was definitely distinct from him.
Eric Fromm did believe in non-sexual love. But he was not religious and he saw himself as working in a scientific tradition - as did Freud.
I think it is obvious that on this question Freud was also wrong and discovered nothing whatsoever.