Crisis of Western Intellectual Culture in the Light of Psychoanalysis (S. Freud, C.G. Jung, E. Fromm)

Abstract

This article explores the phenomenon of the crisis of the spiritual culture of Western civilization
and how it was reflected in the work of psychoanalysts (Freud, Jung, Fromm). These thinkers belonged
to different branches of psychoanalysis, so as a result they produced three points of view on
the origins of the crisis and its value. For Freud, the crisis was the result of human nature. Jung believed
that the Western myth had exhausted itself and should be replaced. Fromm saw the origins
of the crisis in the socio-economic background: capitalism and Protestantism created a new type of
man. Many of the ideas expressed by the above-mentioned thinkers have not lost their relevance
today.