As part of our Psychological Humanities and Ethics Series, join Roger Frie & Susannah Heschel as they discuss Trauma And Silence: Erich Fromm, The Holocaust Correspondence And Historical Responsibility.

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Erich Fromm is popularly known as a public intellectual, psychoanalyst and purveyor of hope. What remains largely unknown is the trauma and tragedy his German-Jewish family endured in the Holocaust. Reading from his family’s unpublished Holocaust letters, the lecture will address the nature of this trauma and the questions of silence and historical responsibility. How might this unspoken chapter in Fromm’s life shape our understanding of his work, particularly his focus on authoritarianism and human destructiveness? What does it mean for me, a grandson of the German generation of perpetrators and enablers, to share this history with you? And how do we relate to the traumatic horrors of the past in the face of our own turbulent reality and the rise of anti-Semitism and racism in the present?

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