By Erich Fromm… Is incredible to recap that the first edition was wrote in 1956, and yet it’s so universally up to date!!! Anyway, I have been thinking about this fragment from the Self Love part, because I want to shareit with you all: From this follows that my own self must be as much an object of love as another person. The affirmation of one’s own life, happiness, growth, freedom, is rooted in one’s capacity to love, i.e., in care, respect, responsibility, and knowledge. If an individual is able to love productively, he loves himself too; if he can only love others, he cannot love at all.