This book includes two seminal works by Erich Fromm, the greatest thinker of the 20th century, one of the great cohort of “philosophers from psychology” and the spiritual leader of the Frankfurt School of Sociology. “Beyond the illusions that enslave us” is a work in which the great scientist explores the genesis, mythology and basic philosophical aspects of two teachings that had the greatest influence on the formation of the thinking of the intelligentsia of the 20th century - Marxism and Freudianism. Previously published in Russian under the title “From the Captivity of Illusions.” “Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis” is an original attempt to compare the most interesting philosophical systems of the East and West, fully reflecting the specifics of European and Asian mentalities - and having, as Fromm proves, between have much more in common than it seems at first glance.