Sep 5, 2025
A note on Anxiety
In The Art of Loving, Erich Fromm maintained that:
The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety. Being separate means being cut off, without any capacity to use my human powers . . .
The awareness of human separation, without reunion by love is the source of shame. It is at the same time the source of guilt and anxiety.
The deepest need of man, then, is the need to overcome his separateness, to leave the prison of his aloneness
