The relationship between man and society has long attracted philosophers who have sought to determine which of the elements of this binary opposition is primary. Is the individual antisocial by nature, as S. Freud argued, or, on the contrary, is man a social animal, as K. Marx believed? An attempt to reconcile these opposing points of view was made by the founder of “humanistic psychoanalysis” Erich Fromm. Society is infected with the depersonalization of the individual: mass culture, mass art, mass politics are determined by the totality of all living conditions of modern industrial society. This disease can be cured only through the acquisition of positive freedom, freedom not in itself, not destructive, but “freedom for something”, through the transition from the state of “having” to the state of “being”. And only a society whose members have positive freedom can be called healthy.The text of the book was translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence program. For the most part, the translation of the text is of very high quality, but in some cases, due to the imperfection of the technology, there may be incorrect phrase translations in the text, as well as single words and expressions may not be translated.