A Cultivable Art.

This article focuses on the book "The Art of Loving," by Erich Fromm. Erich Fromm offers a book which sees "love" as a sense of one-ness with others, responsibility for them, concern for them, it is the only mature passion. Sexual happiness is a fine by-product of love, but is not the cause of love, nor a condition necessary for love. As Fromm sees it, the typical love is brotherly or neighborly love. That is love is caring for others. Fromm makes an ingenious distinction between two ways of reliving anxiety by communion with others. One is orgiastic, and the other is conformity to the mores. Orgies include drug induced trances, sexual orgasms, and various types of hypnotic or self-induced intense excitements.