@article{Lippmann, author = {Lippmann, Paul}, title = {The Greatness and Limitations of Fromm's Thought: On Dreams}, series = {M. Cortina and M. Maccoby (Eds.), A Prophetic Analyst. Erich Fromm's Contribution to Psychoanalysis, Nothvale and London (Jason Aronson Inc.) 1996, pp. 133-150.}, journal = {M. Cortina and M. Maccoby (Eds.), A Prophetic Analyst. Erich Fromm's Contribution to Psychoanalysis, Nothvale and London (Jason Aronson Inc.) 1996, pp. 133-150.}, abstract = {Paul Lippmann continues exploring the strengths and weaknesses of Fromm's work and directs our attention to Fromm's contribution to the under-standing of dreams. As Lippmann observes, at times >the adventure down the royal road had become a lockstep for the faithful on a narrow and rigid path<. Fromm reawakened an interest in exploring the richness and insight potential of dreams by focusing on the experi-ential approach to dream interpretation. To his credit, Fromm seriously engaged Jung's fundamental contribution. Although Fromm steered away from the stereo-type of fixed universal archetypes, he agreed that dreams could give expression to the very best in us. He tried to reconcile Jung's contribution of the dream's expres-sion of intellectual and spiritual insight with Freud's emphasis on the irrational mo-tives expressed in dreams. The result was a more complex, balanced, and clinically useful approach to dreams that anticipated many creative efforts to expand our un-derstanding of these mysterious nighttime visions. Yet, as Lippmann observes, dreams have the Rorschach-like capacity to elicit in would-be interpreters the re-flection of their own interests and motivations, and are influenced by the analyst's theories. Fromm's dream interpretations were often the expression of his own be-liefs, the voice of humanistic conscience, the expression of an irrational mother fixa-tion, or the rebellion against the dehumanizing effect of modern society. In short, he introduced his own creed to dream interpretation.}, language = {en} } @article{Lippmann, author = {Lippmann, Paul}, title = {Dreams, Psychoanalysis and the Emergent Economic Electronic Culture}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 11, (No. 1, 2002), pp. 27-32.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 11, (No. 1, 2002), pp. 27-32.}, abstract = {This article is an attempt to begin to weave together Freud's work - on dreams here envisioned as the original model for virtual reality - and from Fromm's work - on the impact of the market on personality. The contributions of these two psychoanalysts provide a necessary dual foundation for an understanding of emerging aspects of human psychology that are evolving, at the beginning of the 21st Century, alongside the profound influence of the electronically driven global market. It is time for psychoanalysis to engage more fully in the study of cultural forces. While it is easy to disregard dreams, both in the general culture and of late in psychoanalysis itself, dreams and their interpretation have always been central in human living, in the development of religion and in the birth of psychoanalysis as our own secular religion. Dreams, in their disembodiment and in their fluidity of information transformations have served as one model for developments within cyber culture and virtual living. The destruction of nature is seen as an underlying theme in the development of compatible relativist-subjectivist philosophies and in the growth of cyberculture. Thus, Freud's insights into dreams and Fromm's into the marketing personality are both crucial to an understanding of major contemporary forces.}, language = {en} } @article{Lippmann, author = {Lippmann, Paul}, title = {Dreams, Psychoanalysis and Virtuality - An Ancient Mind in Modern World}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 12 (No. 4, December 2003), pp. 227-233.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 12 (No. 4, December 2003), pp. 227-233.}, language = {en} } @misc{Lippmann, author = {Lippmann, Paul}, title = {Review Friedman, L. J.: The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love's Prophet: Erich Fromm: The Opera}, series = {Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Vol. 50 (No. 3, September 2014), pp. 472-477.}, journal = {Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Vol. 50 (No. 3, September 2014), pp. 472-477.}, language = {en} }