The Art of Loving

Things nobody tells you about relationship dynamics when you are young. Whats a head of you emontionaly? I recommend these to my son. Erich Fromm The Art of Loving David schnarch Passionate Marriage: Sex, Love & Intimacy in emotionally committed relationships. And before you get married... Get some new perspective why ... Wolfgang gädecke, Sexuality, Partnership and Marriage : From a Spiritual Perspective

Although I am an avid reader and have been reading on average 1 or 2 books each week for the past 15 years, I don't think I've ever read a book than "changed my life". Looking back, I think the most impactfull book for me was The Art of Loving (1956) by Erich Fromm because it opened up a world of psychology and psychoanalysis and significantly altered my view on how humans think. Among the classic fiction the best so far were: T. Dreiser - The Bulwark, S. Maugham - Of Human Bondage, L. Tolstoy - The Kreutzer Sonata and E. Zola - l'Oeuvre & Germinal.

The Art of Loving by Erich Fromme A description of how love (romantic love, brotherly love, love for God, love for oneself) has to be actively practiced much like any other discipline and what the consequences are for individuals living in a society that by and large does not hold this belief. As a younger person who often gets frustrated with how easy it is to get caught up in his own narcissism and materialism, this book helped me better understand myself and what my core drives are moreso than anything else I’ve encountered to date. Only like 120 pages to boot.

Jacques Neveu, Mathematical Foundations of the Calculus of Probability, Holden-Day, San Francisco. Random variables and the associated probability theory and conditional probability theory are surprisingly relevant, especially now with computing, in the real world. That the set of real valued random variables X such that E[X^2] is finite forms a Hilbert space, e.g., is complete, is astounding. So is the martingale convergence theorem. Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving. Heavily about how what people do is in response to the anxiety they feel from the realization that alone they are vulnerable to the hostile forces of nature and society.