Erich Fromm's perspective about loneliness and its outcomes in education
| Autor | Sahar Zabihidan - Babak Shamshir |
| Cargo | Ph.D Student of History and Philosophy of Education; Foundations of Education, Psychology and Educational Sciences, Shiraz University, Iran. Email: sahar.zabihidan@gmail.com (Corresponding author) - Associate Prof. of the Dept. of Foundations of Educational Psychology, Shiraz University, Iran. Email: babakshamshiri@yahoo.com. |
| Páginas | 329-357 |
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ERICH FROMM’S PERSPECTIVE ABOUT LONELINESS AND
ITS OUTCOMES IN EDUCATION
Sahar Zabihidan
1
Babak Shamshiri
2
Abstract: For many years, the human
need for the group, social life, and the
impact of this form of life on mental
health and body have been discussed.
This is said to be less about loneliness
and the role played by human beings.
Loneliness is a global issue experienced
by all humans more or less and with their
lives. In other words, many people with
races, cultures, social classes, and at
different ages and times each experience
some kind of loneliness. It is true that
human being is an absolute social being
and we always hear from the benefits of
communication and satisfaction from it,
But this should not be overlooked by the
constructive and positive aspects of
being alone, especially in education
systems; Hence, this article was
conducted with the aim of examining the
opinions and views of Eric Forum on
loneliness and analyzing its
consequences in education. This
1- Ph.D Student o f History and Philosophy of Education; Foundations of Education, Psychology and
Educational Sciences, Shiraz University, Iran. Email: sahar.zabihidan@gmail.com (Corresponding author)
2- Associate Prof. of the Dept. of Foundations of Educational Psychology, Shiraz University, Iran. Email:
babakshamshiri@yahoo.com
research is part of qualitative research,
which is done by analytical-deductive
method. Findings indicate that Any
social person with extensive
communication does not necessarily
have mental health; On the other hand,
loneliness is not always a sign for
malicious and anti-social characters, In
other words, what is important is the
difference between antisocial people and
a group consciously choosing loneliness.
Therefore, loneliness is an emotional
feeling that in the case of balance, it can
be constructive and lead to self-
knowledge, the development of
reflection thinking, self-consciousness
and if it is to be extreme, there will be
plenty of harm in the community,
especially education systems.
Keywords: Erich Fromm, loneliness,
positive and negative dimensions of
loneliness, education system.
Periódico do Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre Gênero e Direito
Centro de Ciências Jurídicas - Universidade Federal da Paraíba
V. 8 - Nº 03 - Ano 2019
ISSN | 2179-7137 | http://periodicos.ufpb.br/ojs2/index.php/ged/index
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Introduction
During the 20th century, the
human life has undergone rapid and full-
scale changes. It should not be forgotten
that the social and human conditions of
the past centuries have been simpler than
today’s conditions; thus, the issues are
currently more complex and in need of
more concentration. In other words, the
wonderful nature of the social changes is
constantly adding to the complexity and
risks of the individuals’ life conditions in
various communities. These changes
cause degrees of distrust, unrest,
frustration and loneliness in nearly all
individuals. Loneliness is a
psychological and philosophical issue
and a type of psychological harms that
can actually initiate and become the
starting point of other social harms;
therefore, Asher and Paquette 2003,
believe that loneliness can both be a life
experience and a potential harm; so,
loneliness is one of the complex
psychological constructs that have
always been discussed and investigated.
At that time, loneliness was considered
as a positive concept that was interpreted
as an individual’s voluntary withdrawal
from the daily life engagements for
reaching more sublime goals (like
contemplation, meditation and
relationship with the God); but,
nowadays, the psychological texts do not
approach loneliness as a positive feeling,
rather it is envisioned as a state wherein
an individual perceives or experiences
the absence of relationships with the
others and it includes such primary and
important elements like the undesirable
feeling of the loss or absence of a
companion, unpleasant and negative
aspects of the lost relationships and
losing the quality level of the
relationship with the others (De Jong
Gierveled, 1998, cited in Salimi, 2009).
Generally, there are few
persons who have not experienced
loneliness in a period of life even when
it comes to the today’s generation that,
compared with the previous generations,
enjoy increasingly more facilities and
technologies; it is in such a way that
some believe that a person’s loneliness
has taken a variegated manifestation due
to modernism but, anyway, human
beings are afraid of becoming lonely. As
the founder of the humanist psychology,
Erich Fromm realizes modernity as an
inevitable process and a world-inclusive
phenomenon that has presently captured
the entire world because, as he opines,
every society finds itself having given a
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