This paper relates that psychoanalyst Erich Fromm was born in 1900 in German, in 1933 came to the United States, became a
citizen and held various positions in U. S. psychoanalytical institutions and universities. The author points out that Fromm's theory of personality is a unique blend of Sigmund Freud, Fromm's mentor, who postulated that the character was
determined by biology and Karl Marx, who believed people as determined by their society, especially by their economic systems. The paper relates that Fromm introduced the notion of what he called humanity's essential freedom, which allowed people to transcend the determinisms that Freud and Marx attributed to human family and human economic life as inevitable.