The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Thursday March 23rd, 2023
Erich Fromm: Meeting the Challenges of the Century by Rene Wadlow
Eric Fromm (1900-1980), the psychoanalyst concerned with the relation between personality and society, whose birth anniversary we mark on 23 March, was born in 1900. Thus his life was marked by the socio-political events of the century he faced, especially those of Germany, his birth place.
Erich Fromm was born into an orthodox Jewish family in Frankfurt am Main. The families of both his mother and father had rabbis and Talmudic scholars, and so he grew up in a household where the significance of religious texts was an important part of life. While Fromm later took a great distance from Orthodox Jewish thought, he continued a critical appreciation of Judaism.
He was interested in the prophets of the Old Testament but especially by the hope of the coming of a Messianic Age – a powerful theme in popular Judaism. The coming of the Messiah would establish a better world in which there would be higher spiritual standards but also a new organization of society. The Messianic ideal is one in which the spiritual and the political cannot be separated from one another.
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Mortal Coil #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“On the mounds the bled,
Rutted, fornicated and bred,
Life and death all mingled here,
With love, innocence and fear,
On the mortal coil they sang”
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Always something; the family edition #58 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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