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oS capo aig hot belong to. the. scholars: the Institute at Frankfurt, Germany, although he ! given a series of lectures in the’ early thirties... had already left and -as:f understand, } er ny He must have. been assoctated with the Institute heré.in New: . York between 1935 and 1937. I have reason to believe'that. FROMM'S separation from the Institute was caused by personal = rather than selentific considerations. He and HORKHEIMBR 0 uy, apparently did not get along with each other. | I kmowthat.- up to this very day. the men most closely associated with the = “= Institute ~ HORKHEIMER, POLLOCK, LOWENTHAL and ADORNO, are. =: antagonistic to FROMM, and I also know that FROMM on his. — part does not like and does not speak well of this group. 7 s To be more concrete, I venture to say that FROMKTS oy great success as theoretician, teache® and practitioner of psychoanalysis aroused a good deal of envy and jealousy, — particularly in HORKHEIMER. FROMM is one of the considerable number of scholars who broke with the Institute's group for OF personal reasons (incompatability) and as one of the very few who sticceeded in getting a severance pay from the Institute. + :4.) ; In former years I occasionally saw FROMM and: visited -_ his home. I am quite certain from all I know of him per- f sonally and of his scientific md educational work, that he is a convinced enemy of any form of totalitarianism and never: had any organizational ties with either a Faseist or Communist ©: - Recently I have heard that Mrs. Mpictent Re ser pebaldes nis psychiaties. Bee been