Fromm identified three psychological escape routes from freedom

Evidence

Against the background of a historical sketch of the contradictory process by which the individual had been released from the ties of medieval society, the book combined the social-psychological functionalism found in Fromm’s contribution to the Studies on Authority and the Family with the idea of escaping from what seemed to be a vicious circle. Fromm diagnosed three main methods of flight: authoritarianism, destructiveness and `automaton conformity’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1126

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Fromm’s broader social psychology as foundational to Frankfurt School critical theory; reader’s stated goal of reference-level critical theory synthesis.