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IN THE ART OF LOVING (a 1956 book that is, disappointingly, much drearier than it sounds), psychoanalyst Erich Fromm identified a “disintegration of love” in Western society. He went on to denounce relationships that “follow the same pattern of exchange which governs the commodity and the labor market.” As Fromm—a member of the Frankfurt School movement seeking to unify the precepts of Marxism and psychoanalysis—saw it, coupling was now largely a matter of investment and profit: People had begun to view themselves as products, commodities whose use they should leverage for maximum personal