Fromm read the Jewish Sabbath as a Freudian penance for original sin

Evidence

Fromm trained as a psychoanalyst, married Frieda Reichmann, and opened his own practice in 1927. In the same year, he published his first extended study in depth-psychology, Der Sabbat' (The Sabbath’). He later claimed to have been a good Freudian all through my student days', and in the essay he came to the conclusion that The Sabbath originally served as a reminder of the killing of the father and the winning of the mother; the commandment not to work served as a penance for original sin and for its repetition through regression to the pre-genital stage.’ — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 213

Categorization

• SHARE: A delightfully specific, borderline-absurd interpretive claim that any Freudian or Jewish-studies colleague would relish.
• CANDY: A provocative, easily-repeated one-liner about how Fromm psychoanalyzed the Sabbath.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 213
• XREF: connects to: Fromm interpreted the Jewish Sabbath through the Freudian father-killing and Oedipal framework. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 213

Broader Connections

• Fromm interpreted the Jewish Sabbath through the Freudian father-killing and Oedipal framework. #expands (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 213