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From: Paul Carney <[log in to unmask]>
To: G.F. Phillips <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 10 May 2000 08:16
Subject: Re: Healthy Vs. Unhealthy Love
(http://www.lightshifter.com/toxicluv.htm)
>Dear Gerald
>
>I wonder if you have come across Fromm's book "Man For Himself:
>An Enquiry into the Psychology of Ethics."? In it he writes:
>
>"Love is a phenomenon of abundance; its premise is the strength of the
>individual who can give. Love is affirmation and productiveness, "It
>seeketh to create what is loved!" To love another person is only a
>virtue if it springs from this inner strength, but it is a vice if it is
the
>expression of the basic inability to be oneself."
>
>
>Best wishes
>
>Paul
>
>
>Paul Carney
>Senior Lecturer
>School of Health & Social Science
>Coventry University
>Priory St
>Coventry England CV1 5FB
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