The Art of Loving Erich Fromm's idea that love and relationships must be learned, that in order to acquire them, one must develop one's entire personality.
Love in all its forms is the basis of creative power, active care for life, responsibility for life and respect for life. The practical experience of love takes the form of a purely personal experience, which can only be felt by each person alone and from within. The main condition for achieving this emotion is overcoming one's own narcissism and then gaining the ability to adopt an objective image: to see people and things as they really are. The art of loving depends on the ability to grow, to develop a creative orientation towards the world and towards oneself. The inner process, however, requires a radical social change that allows the merging of man's loving nature with his social existence.