@article{Zepf, author = {Zepf, Siegfried}, title = {Metaphors in psychoanalytic theory - Do we need them?}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 3, 2024), pp. 163-173.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 3, 2024), pp. 163-173.}, abstract = {The author questions Wallerstein's conviction that psychoanalytic concepts are >scientific metaphors.< If one were to adopt his view, psychoanalysis would fall into line with Lakoff and Johnson′s thesis that the conceptual system of our thoughts and actions is basically metaphorically structured. The author rejects both their views by demonstrating how the system inherent in our conceptual structure works, and disproving Lakoff and Johnson's thesis as an assertion. In his view, if psychoanalytic concepts are understood as metaphors without defining their target domains, they lose their cognitive function and allow general metaphors to be understood in a whole variety of ways. The author suspects that this metaphorization of psychoanalytic concepts serves to suggest that psychoanalysis has a unified theory which would guarantee the community's scientific unity, despite the theoretical and therapeutic pluralism that currently prevails.}, language = {en} } @article{Waska, author = {Waska, Robert}, title = {Interpreting with a Modern Kleinian view: Clinical examples of talk therapy and what is said}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 4, 2024), pp. 232-240.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 4, 2024), pp. 232-240.}, abstract = {Case material, disguised for confidentiality, is used to show the way interpretations are made from the Modern Kleinian therapy approach and how these interpretations evolve during the course of a session and throughout treatment. Issues of focus on defense and/or internal phantasy conflict are discussed and the centrality of projective identification and phantasy are then illustrated. In detailed clinical reports, the patient's internal object relational struggles are highlighted, explored, and challenged with supportive interpretation. This includes a focus on transference, countertransference, and containment.}, language = {en} } @article{Usak, author = {Usak, Hale}, title = {On female melancholia in migration: Interpretations from Turkish-Muslim culture with a case vignette}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 4, 2024), pp. 255-269.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 4, 2024), pp. 255-269.}, abstract = {Today, melancholia is no longer used as a separate clinical picture in psychotherapeutic diagnostics. Instead, the symptoms are subsumed under major depression or dysthymia and understood as a disease concept. In both Freud's interpretation and in the artistic, Islamic, poetic, and medical-historical approaches in Turkish culture, melancholia is understood in a richer way than just in terms of a >disease-like disorder.< This article aims to emphasize the broader understanding of melancholia within the Turkish-Islamic context and illuminate intersections with psychoanalysis. Since the Islamic faith occupies an important place in the treatment and popular understanding of mental disorders both historically and to the present day, religious and mystical aspects related to melancholia are also considered in this article. A case vignette of a melancholic migrant woman with Turkish roots is used to trace the psychodynamic movements in her treatment. In order to follow this patient's psychoanalytic process, the theoretical explanations in the first part of the article provide the sensibilization for a deeper understanding of the cultural and religious aspects important to the inner dynamics of this woman.}, language = {en} } @article{Spiers, author = {Spiers, Robbie}, title = {Love, Actually? Theodor Adorno, Erich Fromm, and the Possibility of Love in Capitalist Modernity}, series = {New German Critique, Vol. 51 (No. 3, 2024), pp. 45-68. [Online ISSN 1558-1462] [doi.org/10.17863/CAM.106983]}, journal = {New German Critique, Vol. 51 (No. 3, 2024), pp. 45-68. [Online ISSN 1558-1462] [doi.org/10.17863/CAM.106983]}, abstract = {Love is not regularly associated with the Frankfurt School. Theodor Adorno and Erich Fromm are not regularly associated with each other. Yet, when we bring these Critical Theorists' works together, a rich discussion of love emerges. Love is viewed by both as a dialectical force, bringing two subjects into union while also allowing them to cultivate their individual selves. Fromm and Adorno operate within the same Marxist philosophical tradition, meaning that they share concerns about the increasing commodification of love and the disappearance of genuine, spontaneous relationships between people. The similarities are not endless, however, and important differences between them remain: Fromm, with his optimism and his concern for existential issues, maintains a belief in revolutionary political change and high spiritual ideals that the materialist pessimist Adorno resists as comfortable illusions. Through this philosophical encounter, two faces of Critical Theory emerge, one oriented toward an analysis of the present and the other turned toward hopes for the future.}, language = {en} } @article{Spiegel, author = {Spiegel, Jasmin}, title = {>About false Jews<: Transgenerational posttraumatic identity confusions in Germany}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 3, 2024), pp. 184-192.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 3, 2024), pp. 184-192.}, abstract = {In times of rising group-focused enmity and toxic polarizations between conflicted groups worldwide, a differentiated debate about the transgenerational complexities of German and Jewish posttraumatic entanglements of identity is needed. This article focuses on one specific and limited clinical phenomenon: the >adoption< by a few people in Germany of a Jewish identity that is not present in their own biography. An introduction to the phenomenon from clinical practice is followed by a brief historical and social contextualization, as well as theoretical models of explanation for the adoption of a potentially oppressed minority status. With reference to theories on social trauma and its transgenerational transmission to both victims and perpetrators, the psychoanalytic examination of a single case is used to develop the thesis that posttraumatic Jewish identity confusion and constructions are to be understood not only as an individual variant of >false-self,< but also as a form of transgenerational repercussion of the social trauma of the Shoah.}, language = {en} } @article{Smith, author = {Smith, David Norman}, title = {The Agitator Supplies What the Base Demands: Trumpism Before and After Donald Trump}, series = {Critical Sociology, Vol. 50 (No. 4-5, 2024), pp. 813-843 [Online ISSN 1569-1632] [doi.org/10.1177/08969205231208921]}, journal = {Critical Sociology, Vol. 50 (No. 4-5, 2024), pp. 813-843 [Online ISSN 1569-1632] [doi.org/10.1177/08969205231208921]}, abstract = {The fierce loyalty of Donald Trump's base has long mystified his critics. For 8 years now, they have expressed puzzlement that his followers support him >despite everything< - despite his incendiary rhetoric, his misogyny, his racial prejudices, and his authoritarianism. In this paper, I argue that, in fact, Trump's hectic agitation is precisely what his base wants. My reading of the data - including data I gathered with my collaborator, Eric Hanley, in 2016 - is that Trump owes his demagogic success to the fact that he says what his followers want him to say and acts accordingly. Donald Trump, today's agitator par excellence, supplies what his base demands. Trump, in short, is less an architect of Trumpism than its reflex. However effectively he performs in the public arena, he remains an emissary, personifying a social movement that preceded him and will survive him. And that movement, I will argue, is authoritarian in a very specific sense - driven by a wish for a domineering leader who is loyal to his partisans and hostile to their adversaries. Analytic insight into this phenomenon is drawn, below, from a range of authors, including marketing professionals and critical theorists including Erich Fromm and Theodor W. Adorno.}, language = {en} } @article{Rodrigues, author = {Rodrigues, Fl{\´a}vio}, title = {Educator Perception: The Orientations of Social Character and Professional Identity. Paper to be published 2ß24, 14 pp.}, abstract = {Why study teacher perception? To answer this question, let's consider the teaching profession as a perceptual process. Teaching viewed as a way of experiencing the world, a perception in the mold of Merleau-Ponty. But how can we support this claim without placing the teaching professional in a biological or innate role? Between the purely innate and the purely empirical, we propose the ex-ducere, the act of educating - Ex Ducere: Ex = out; Ducere = to lead - as a central trait of teaching praxis. In this way, we point to a possible teaching orientation of character and a probable teaching identity, productive when inclusive and non-productive when exclusive - in both cases, guided by the act of educating. This trait would emerge from the perception of human fragility itself. These ideas come from a set of studies on the need for relationships. Among them are the studies of Shulz \& Waldinger on relationships and longevity; Erich Fromm on the need for relationships; and Gottlieb on the evolution of behavior, as well as the studies of Neves, Junior \& Murrieta. To confirm the above statement of a type of teaching orientation, this study aims to demonstrate that morphological characteristics, such as human fragility in contact with the environment, forced a type of orientation structure; they caused habits, behaviors, and character orientations to be constituted and developed into sophisticated social instruments. Such devices are refined modes of caring for offspring, increasingly requiring parental involvement over time, which gradually was delegated to a specific type of professional: the educator.}, language = {en} } @article{Pambuccian, author = {Pambuccian, Viktor}, title = {Brouwer Vindicated by Neuroscience}, series = {The Mathematical Intelligence (Springer Nature 2024), Vol. 47, pp. 2-5; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-024-10380-z}, journal = {The Mathematical Intelligence (Springer Nature 2024), Vol. 47, pp. 2-5; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-024-10380-z}, language = {en} } @article{Newman, author = {Newman, Leonard S.}, title = {Of course people can reject democracy: psychological perspectives}, series = {Frontiers in Social Psychology, Vol. 2 (2024), pp. 1-6. [Online ISSN 2813-7876] [frontiersin.org/journals/social-psychology/articles/10.3389/frsps.2024.1461701/full] [doi.org/10.3389/FRSPS.2024.1461701]}, journal = {Frontiers in Social Psychology, Vol. 2 (2024), pp. 1-6. [Online ISSN 2813-7876] [frontiersin.org/journals/social-psychology/articles/10.3389/frsps.2024.1461701/full] [doi.org/10.3389/FRSPS.2024.1461701]}, abstract = {Concerns have been expressed about a worldwide retreat from liberal democracy and a turn toward more authoritarian forms of government. Along with that concern has come surprise: when the cold war ended, it was widely believed that a new historical era was dawning during which alternatives to Western liberalism would wither away. Influential psychological theories also assume that freedom and autonomy are powerful human needs - needs that are thwarted by dictatorships. However, a number of theoretical perspectives and programs of research in psychology lead to the conclusion that in certain circumstances, turns toward authoritarian forms of government and restrictive societies are not only explicable, but also predictable. Fromm's analysis of why people might want to escape from freedom, Baumeister's work on escape-from-self mechanisms, and Schwartz's review of the literature on choice overload all provide ways of understanding why in turbulent times, members of free countries might intentionally seek out - and perhaps even ecstatically embrace - authoritarian forms of government.}, language = {en} } @article{LindebaumLanger, author = {Lindebaum, Dirk and Langer, Susanne}, title = {On the Psycho-emotional Deficitisation of Workers in the Age of Cognitive Enhancement}, series = {Organization, Vol. 31 (No. 4, 2024), pp. 703-719. [Online ISSN 1461-7323] [doi.org/10.1177/13505084221145617]}, journal = {Organization, Vol. 31 (No. 4, 2024), pp. 703-719. [Online ISSN 1461-7323] [doi.org/10.1177/13505084221145617]}, abstract = {Despite being the subject of public and scholarly debates for some time, the topic of cognitive enhancement remains theoretically under-developed in organisation studies. This is because the 'dots' still have to be 'connected' between macro-level phenomena (here, the therapeutic ethos and cognitive capitalism), and micro-level phenomena (in this case, cognitive abilities). In this essay, we use Fromm's notion of social character to theorise dialectally about the interaction between these macro and micro-level phenomena. Doing so enables us to examine how the macro/micro interaction fosters to adoption of cognitive enhancement in the context of work, and what kinds of consequences might emerge from this. We propose the psycho-emotional deficitisation of workers as a central consequence of the aforementioned interaction, and define it as an internalised version of external ideals of what it means to be a productive worker under cognitive capitalism, which over time generates and reinforces the affective experience of being deficient. Our theorising around socially patterned defects of a cognitive kind has crucial ramification for our understanding of technology-mediated affective control at work and how human-technology interactions shape the subjectivities of workers towards greater self-inferiorisation vis-{\`a}-vis the perceived superiority of technology. We close by foreshadowing avenues for future research.}, language = {en} } @article{Leisinger, author = {Leisinger, Klaus M.}, title = {Corporate Responsibility in Difficult Times. Intervention at the 50th Year Congress of the Philosophical Society of T{\"u}rkiye Ankara, October 3rd, 2024, 11 pp-}, language = {en} } @article{Jimenez, author = {Jimenez, Luis}, title = {The relevance of Erich Fromm's social character and Bourdieu's habitus in psychosocial research on gendered work and community after de-industrialisation}, series = {Journal of Psychosocial Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 251-265; DOI: 10.1332/14786737Y2024D000000035}, journal = {Journal of Psychosocial Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 251-265; DOI: 10.1332/14786737Y2024D000000035}, abstract = {This article draws attention to Erich Fromm's concept of social character alongside Pierre Bourdieu's notion of habitus to broaden our understanding of the legacy of neoliberalism within the context of the massive job redundancies taking place in the steel industry in the UK. This includes secondary analysis of my own earlier research on the psychosocial ramifications of the loss of stable work, changing worker-gendered identities, disrupted affect, community engagement and historical memory within a global context of insecure labour (Walkerdine and Jimenez, 2012).}, language = {en} } @article{Ihanus, author = {Ihanus, Juhani}, title = {Martti Siirala and Gaetano Benedetti - Friends in the dialogical and psychotherapeutic sharing of burdens}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 3, 2024), pp. 152-162.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 3, 2024), pp. 152-162.}, abstract = {This article explores the dialogical collaboration and friendship between Martti Siirala and Gaetano Benedetti, particularly in the development of the psychotherapy of schizophrenia and the human psychotherapeutic attitude toward carrying and sharing burdens. Siirala and Benedetti outlined a psychotherapy that considers existential and philosophical dimensions alongside the clinical aspects of illness, without being bound by schools of thought, authorities, or doctrinal systems. The main material in the article is based on documents from the Martti Siirala archive, the most important of which is the German-language correspondence between Siirala and Benedetti after Siirala moved back to Finland from Switzerland at the end of 1957. Benedetti's activities in Basel are also illuminated by descriptions sent to Siirala by nurse Aino K{\"a}rkk{\"a}inen of her experiences in Switzerland in the late 1950s.}, language = {en} } @article{Hoffman, author = {Hoffman, Edward}, title = {How Would Alfred Adler View America's Loneliness Epidemic? Reflections by His Biographer}, series = {The Journal of Individual Psychology, Vol. 80 (No. 4, Winter 2024), pp. 275-285.}, journal = {The Journal of Individual Psychology, Vol. 80 (No. 4, Winter 2024), pp. 275-285.}, abstract = {U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy (2023) has declared that America is experiencing an >epidemic< and >health-care crisis< related to loneliness. Although Alfred Adler is not alive to respond to this dismaying situation, his life and writings offer a vital direction for understanding the nature of this epidemic and reacting appropriately. As Adler's biographer, I focus on four relevant causal factors concerning chronic loneliness among adolescents and young adults today: intrapsychic, familial, pedagogic, and wider societal forces. Relevant interventions are then discussed.}, language = {en} } @article{Halton, author = {Halton, Eugene}, title = {Is God Sustainable?}, series = {Philosophies, Vol. 9, (No. 4, 2024), p. 93. [Online ISSN 2409-9287] [mdpi.com/2409-9287/9/4/93] [doi.org/10.3390/PHILOSOPHIES9040093]}, journal = {Philosophies, Vol. 9, (No. 4, 2024), p. 93. [Online ISSN 2409-9287] [mdpi.com/2409-9287/9/4/93] [doi.org/10.3390/PHILOSOPHIES9040093]}, abstract = {This essay approaches the >God is dead< theme by offering a new philosophical history addressing what would make belief in divinity, in God, sustainable and unsustainable. I claim that the death of nature and the death of God in the modern era are manifestations of a progressive distancing from a religious philosophy of the Earth that guided human development until the beginnings of civilization. I outline within the space limitations here a new way of looking at the rise of civilization and the modern era by re-evaluating large-scale epochal beliefs and assumptions of progress within a context of sustainable ends and what I have termed sustainable wisdom. From an original evolved outlook I call animate mind, rooted in a religious philosophy of the living Earth, succeeding contractions of anthropocentric mind and machine-centric mind have regressively disconnected from the community of life. This trajectory courses the disconnect from the livingness of things as defining cosmos, to that of machine-centric mind in the modern era, a devolutionary elevation of the feelingless machine, of deadness, of what Erich Fromm described as cultural necrophilia. I propose rebalancing these later contractions of anthropocentric and machine-centric mind with that deeper reality of animate mind, forged as the human evolutionary legacy still present in the human body-mind today. The renewed legacy of animate mind provides a key to what a sustainable God might mean.}, language = {en} } @article{Gerson, author = {Gerson, Sam}, title = {Affiliation vs. Alienation}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 34 (No. 3, 2024), pp. 280-287. [Online ISSN 1940-9222] [doi.org/10.1080/10481885.2024.2346513]}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 34 (No. 3, 2024), pp. 280-287. [Online ISSN 1940-9222] [doi.org/10.1080/10481885.2024.2346513]}, abstract = {Contemporary psychoanalytic thinking has been marked by a >social turn< - a shift in emphasis from internal and endogenous process to those that prioritize the social and political context in which psychological life is shaped. In this discussion of Rozmarin's work, the concept of "belonging" is considered as a bridge between the individual and the community. The entities to which one belongs and the dynamics that underline the choices attendant to belonging are considered as constituents of both identity and unconscious processes. An individual's unconscious is viewed as nested within the broader historical and social configurations of life and structured by these forces. Reference is made to the work of Erich Fromm and Erik Erikson as aides in understanding the power of the social to shape both identity formation and social affiliation. The dynamics of conflict between affiliation and alienation are considered as a constituent of contemporary movement toward authoritarian political structures.}, language = {en} } @article{Gazzilloetal, author = {Gazzillo, Francesco and et al.,}, title = {Notes on some non-psychotic hypochondriacal states}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 4, 2024), pp. 241-254.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 4, 2024), pp. 241-254.}, abstract = {The aim of this paper is to propose a psychodynamic hypothesis based on control-mastery theory (CMT) about the self-punishment function of some non-psychotic hypochondriacal states. After a review of several major psychoanalytic hypotheses about hypochondria, we will show the main concepts of CMT, an integrative, relational, cognitive-dynamic theory of mental functioning, psychopathology, and therapeutic process that is the theoretical framework that has helped us understand and treat these states in our patients. We will then describe two clinical cases to show how some hypochondriacal states can be interpreted as self-punishments connected to three main kinds of guilt hypothesized by CMT: survivor guilt, burdening guilt, and separation/disloyalty guilt. Finally, we will discuss the implications of these hypotheses.}, language = {en} } @article{Frie, author = {Frie, Roger}, title = {A call to action: The enduring relevance of Cushman and Fromm}, series = {Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, Vol. 44 (No. 2, 2024), pp. 119-122. [Online ISSN 2151-3341] [doi.org/10.1037/TEO0000250]}, journal = {Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, Vol. 44 (No. 2, 2024), pp. 119-122. [Online ISSN 2151-3341] [doi.org/10.1037/TEO0000250]}, abstract = {This article examines Phil Cushman's significance as a hermeneutic psychologist, a relational psychoanalyst, and an activist for progressive social change. Parallels are drawn between Cushman's […] article and the work of the mid-century social critic and psychoanalyst, Erich Fromm, particularly his book (Fromm, 1941). The author reflects on his own relationship with Cushman and on the enduring relevance of Cushman's cross-disciplinary scholarship for psychology. [APA PsycNet]}, language = {en} } @article{FernandezCobian, author = {Fern{\´a}ndez-Cobi{\´a}n, Esteban}, title = {Psychoanalysis, religion and architecture. Fray Gabriel Ch{\´a}vez de la Mora and the monastery of Santa Mar{\´i}a de la Resurrecci{\´o}n [Psicoan{\´a}lisis, religi{\´o}n y arquitectura. Fray Gabriel Ch{\´a}vez de la Mora y el monasterio de Santa Mar{\´i}a de la Resurrecci{\´o}n]}, series = {Hispania Sacra, Vol. 76 (No. 154, 2024), pp. 1013. [Online ISSN 1988-4265] [hispaniasacra.revistas.csic.es/index.php/hispaniasacra/article/view/1013/1139] [doi.org/10.3989/hs.2024.1013]}, journal = {Hispania Sacra, Vol. 76 (No. 154, 2024), pp. 1013. [Online ISSN 1988-4265] [hispaniasacra.revistas.csic.es/index.php/hispaniasacra/article/view/1013/1139] [doi.org/10.3989/hs.2024.1013]}, abstract = {At the end of the sixties, the Mexican monastery of Santa Mar{\´i}a de la Resurrecci{\´o}n, located in Ahuacatitl{\´a}n, near Cuernavaca (Mexico), caused rivers of ink to flow due to its novel therapies, in which the Benedictine monks underwent group psychoanalytic processes. The commotion that this entailed, motivated that in 1967, the monastic community decided to dissolve, after its prior, the Belgian priest Gregorio Lemercier, was repeatedly admonished by the Vatican authorities. Starting from the dispersed existing documentation, and abundant unpublished material, this article proposes, in the first place, to reconstruct the events that took place in the monastery of Ahuacatitl{\´a}n. Secondly, to highlight the architectural implications of the process, something that no one has noticed to date. Finally, to underline the role that Fray Gabriel Ch{\´a}vez de la Mora played as architect of the monastery and, especially, of its circular chapel, very novel and controversial for that time.}, language = {en} } @article{ErnoBirk, author = {Ern{\o}, Steffen and Birk, Rasmus}, title = {Rethinking Freedom for Contemporary Psychology}, series = {Culture \& Psychology, Vol. 30 (No. 3, 2024), pp. 479-498. [Online ISSN 1461-7056] [doi.org/10.1177/1354067X241226456]}, journal = {Culture \& Psychology, Vol. 30 (No. 3, 2024), pp. 479-498. [Online ISSN 1461-7056] [doi.org/10.1177/1354067X241226456]}, abstract = {The purpose of this paper is to rethink the topic of freedom for contemporary psychology. Freedom, within psychological research today, is a neglected, even slightly old-fashioned term. In this paper, we explore the practical, normative, and political dimensions of freedom as a psychological concept. We begin by tracing out key understandings of freedom from political theory, before discussing how thinkers such as Skinner, Maslow, Fromm, and May understood the different dimensions of freedom. We then discuss a governmental perspective on freedom, drawn from the work of Nikolas Rose, before finally turning to the sociocultural psychology of L. S. Vygotsky. We contend that freedom is not merely the absence of constraints but a complex interplay between agency, responsibility, and social connections. Our paper argues that the modern emphasis on negative freedom, characterized by reduced interference and obligations, has resulted in a paradoxical situation where individuals feel overwhelmed and seek escape from freedom. By revisiting the insights of Erich Fromm and other scholars, we emphasize the need for positive freedom, which involves voluntary connections with others and active participation in shaping society. We argue that psychology's mandate should be to facilitate the exploration of alternative avenues that lead to flourishing and self-actualization.}, language = {en} } @article{Cimino, author = {Cimino, Silvia}, title = {Interpersonal and conflictual aspects that arise in transference and in the formulation of the interpretation}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 3, 2024), pp. 205-211.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 3, 2024), pp. 205-211.}, abstract = {In this contribution, the author discusses some aspects of countertransference and interpretation through the unfolding of a case in four weekly analytic sessions. The focus is on the states of intersubjective listening: ways of engaging with the material offered by the patient, without neglecting more conflicted areas of the mind. Delving into the complexity of interpretation, the author explores the possibility of providing an intrapsychic interpretation that can be experienced not intrusively, but as an opening to that small fragile part that seeks to be understood and defended from violent sadistic attacks within the inner world.}, language = {en} } @article{Bonomi, author = {Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {Rethinking the birth of psychoanalysis: Disconnection, censorship, and self-censorship}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 4, 2024), pp. 222-231.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 4, 2024), pp. 222-231.}, abstract = {Did young Freud face the horrors of little girls' circumcision in pediatric wards? Did Freud refuse to have his sons ritually circumcised? Did Emma Eckstein, Freud's main female patient in the course of the foundation of psychoanalysis, endure a circumcision when she was a girl? The author discusses these three controversial issues and suggests how they can help to rethink the origins of psychoanalysis. Erasing Emma Eckstein's circumcision as a traumatic life event, Freud uprooted the birth of psychoanalysis from the ground of history, jeopardizing the possibility of Freud's biographers and scholars providing a consistent account of his early discoveries. Yet, despite all distortions, it is still possible to restore significant connections between key historical events, from which an intrinsic legitimacy of psychoanalysis emerges, jointly with a different narration.}, language = {en} } @article{Barthetal, author = {Barth, Lena and et al.,}, title = {Veiling and unveiling: Identity formation in young Muslim women living in Germany}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 3, 2024), pp. 174-183.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 3, 2024), pp. 174-183.}, abstract = {This qualitative study addresses the question of how a background of migration, nationalization, and globalization influences young Muslim women residing in Germany who form their identity and position themselves successfully in modern society. It includes 25 interviews with young Muslim women in the age group 18-25 years whose parents or grandparents migrated to Germany from Turkey. In terms of how their identity has evolved, the participants recount a mostly positive integration into German society, especially on a professional level, contrary to the negativity and devaluation often experienced within their Turkish family. This is a symptom of how Turkish and German society place different expectations on women, with an effect on the development of their identity as well as causing conflicting emotions, especially, for example, when it comes to religious matters such as deciding whether to wear a headscarf. The different personal and subjective motivations behind this are the result of Turkish-Islamic ideas clashing with Western secular thinking. These findings are psychoanalytically explained by suras on veiling in the Quran and the Lacanian dialectic of the symbolic and imaginary phallus.}, language = {en} } @article{Azzone, author = {Azzone, Paolo}, title = {Dreams, memories, and the psychoanalytic process}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 3, 2024), pp. 193-204.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 3, 2024), pp. 193-204.}, abstract = {Freud believed the dreamer's wish amounted to the most powerful motive underlying all dreaming processes. {\´A}ngel Garma suggested traumatic memories might play a similar or even greater role. In the present paper, I extend Garma's suggestion and propose that unconscious memories of interpersonal interactions are the basic components of dream narratives. Within this perspective, latent dream content includes a wealth of information about the unconscious experience of the transference situation. Through a clinical vignette, I show the reader how appropriate transference interpretations allow the identification of such transferential emotions and their reintegration within the psychoanalytic field.}, language = {en} } @article{Voigt, author = {Voigt, Katrin}, title = {Nationalism as collective narcissism: the pathology of an everyday practice}, series = {Journal of Psychosocial Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. xx; DOI: 10.1332/14786737Y2024D000000016}, journal = {Journal of Psychosocial Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. xx; DOI: 10.1332/14786737Y2024D000000016}, abstract = {The article brings together the social psychoanalytic approach by Erich Fromm with current research on nationalism in Western democratic societies. While current research often focuses on the extreme forms of nationalism, the work of Erich Fromm contributes to an understanding of nationalism that encompasses the whole society in a world structured by nation states. The notion of a social unconscious helps to reflect upon both visible and often unnoticed forms of nationalism and links it to an interconnected understanding of psychic and social structure. With Fromm we can understand nationalism as collective narcissism which has been preceded by a loss of self-esteem. Relevant threats to self-esteem in Western democratic societies shaped by a neoliberal ideology, like individualisation and singularisation, will be outlined in the article.}, language = {en} } @article{Stefanaetal, author = {Stefana, Alberto and et al.,}, title = {Probing the impact of psychoanalytic therapy for bipolar disorders: A scoping review}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 2, 2024), pp. 051-062.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 2, 2024), pp. 051-062.}, abstract = {No systematic review has been conducted to provide an overview of the effectiveness of psychoanalysis for treatment outcomes in bipolar depression and mania. The present study undertakes a scoping review of the effectiveness of psychoanalysis for bipolar disorder (BD), provides a summary of the evidence base, and identifies issues for future research in this area. A thorough search of journal articles in MEDLINE, PEP-Web, PsycINFO, Scopus, and the Web of Science was carried out to obtain available studies on psychoanalytic treatment for BD published from 1990 to 2021. We searched for either quantitative or single-case studies. Twenty-six single-case reports from 21 articles and no quantitative studies met the inclusion criteria. A qualitative analysis suggests efficacy and cost-effectiveness but thus far there is no scientific evidence in support of psychoanalysis. Although these pilot findings suggest that psychoanalysis may impact symptoms and global functioning in individuals with BD, the underlying evidence is poor and should be confirmed by experimental studies.}, language = {en} } @article{Silver, author = {Silver, Catherine G.}, title = {The functions of negativity and benign aggression in the development of humanistic values: A Frommian clinical journey - https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2023.2301008}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 3, 2024), pp. 100-110.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 3, 2024), pp. 100-110.}, abstract = {In this paper I present an analysis of a personal journey, based on Erich Fromm's concept of benign aggression, part of The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973). I analyze its role in the dynamics of change based on the interaction between the psyche and the social. In Fromm's conceptual framework, benign aggression results from an unlived life, shaped by limitations on individuals' freedoms, supported by institutional and oppressive structures in a neo-capitalistic society. I explore how benign aggression, replayed between patient and therapist, can bring about changes in the self and modes of relatedness, leading to the recognition of humanistic values. In my practice, projective identification and attachment -detachment dynamics were experienced as forms of benign aggression, while anger and conflict became a way to acknowledge them. Fragments of two clinical cases illustrate how needs for relatedness-through-conflict are experienced. Relatedness expressed through a negative form of attachment can lead to the co-creation of a psychic space, a >Social Third< where ethical values are experienced and shared. This Frommian conceptual framework and methodology require total connectedness with a subject, together with the recognition and acceptance of an >Other< unto oneself. In my experience, such recognition encourages the emergence of humanistic values.}, language = {en} } @article{Schein, author = {Schein, Michael}, title = {Back to our senses: Some (psycho)somatic aspects of the digestive system and their potential relevance to the study of eating disorders}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 2, 2024), pp. 030-038.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 2, 2024), pp. 030-038.}, abstract = {This work explores various aspects of the digestive system's functioning during the early stages of development. These functions become systemically associated with our emotional experience, forming mental correlates that affect our mental development throughout our lifespan. Furthermore, these mental correlates lead to the construction of an interface between the functions of the digestive system and our emotional experience. Advancing these notions will be centered around the idea that the digestive system, primarily the parts associated with the functioning of the mouth, esophagus, and stomach, produces sensations no different and no less consequential than the sensory experience produced by our other senses. Thus, and building on the work of Bion, Anzieu, and others, it is further suggested that the above-mentioned parts of the digestive system should be considered a part of our sensory make-up. In addition to its digestive functions, this system is assumed to play an essential role in the composure of our psychic infrastructure and mental development. Finally, special attention is given to the relevance of these ideas to the study of eating disorders. These issues are explored with the purpose of pointing to some potential links between the functions of the digestive system and the specific manifestations of eating disorders. A brief illustration of some case material is discussed.}, language = {en} } @article{Pinkas, author = {Pinkas, Ronen}, title = {The Forgotten Language of Nontheistic Mysticism: Religious Factors in Erich Fromm's Humanism - https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15050531}, series = {Religions, Basel (MDPI), Vol. 15 (2024), No. 531.}, journal = {Religions, Basel (MDPI), Vol. 15 (2024), No. 531.}, abstract = {In You Shall Be as Gods, Erich Fromm (1900-1980) defines his position as nontheistic mysticism. This research clarifies the term, considers its importance within Fromm's humanism, and explores its potential origins. The nontheistic mystical position plays a central role in Fromm's understanding of the relationship between mysticism and organized religion, religion and religiosity, and it clarifies the relationship between religion, philosophy, and social psychoanalysis, whose combination constitutes his humanistic ethics. Nontheistic mysticism relates, as well, to Fromm's understanding of human nature; it involves the question of the relationship between language, perception, and experience. The nontheistic mystical position is linked to Fromm's negative theology, the x experience, and idolatry. Hence, the nontheistic mystical position is relevant to Fromm's understanding of self-realization and his vision of a sane society. Unlike some scholarly opinion, the conclusions of this paper suggest that Fromm's humanism is not radical, as long as radical is defined as an absolute atheistic secular feature that eliminates the range of religious language and experience. Rather, it is a broad and cautious humanism that, on the one hand, internalizes the transcendent divinity into the human subject and transforms it into anthropological-ethical phenomena, but, on the other, implies that atheism carries the risk of an idolatrous identification of the human being with God. Consequently, this humanism requires a religious-mystical component to adequately portray the spiritual and ethical potentials of humanity and its challenges. Nontheistic mysticism is a consciousness mechanism aimed at the fine-tuning of the individual's moral compass, which is affected by the pathologies of normalcy that prevail in all societies.}, language = {en} } @article{Patania, author = {Patania, Stefano Luca}, title = {Generative performance as a wellbeing creator: A humanistic interdisciplinary model for the paradigm shift in human resource management, https://www.puntoorginternationaljournal.org/index.php/PIJ/article/view/176/136}, series = {Puntoorg - International Journal, Italy, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-42.}, journal = {Puntoorg - International Journal, Italy, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-42.}, abstract = {Today the relationship between performance and wellbeing is highly critical and debated. On the one hand, managerial tradition seeks to make production systems even more efficient, on the other it invests significant resources in welfare (Edenred, 2023). Despite some positive indicators, the balance between production and people's quality of life is still elusive (Gallup, 2023). In this position paper, through an interdisciplinary vision, we start from the concept of One Health, to reconstruct the multifactorial and subjective dynamics that promote wellbeing. We aim to identify the sociological aspects that are correlated with the person's condition within the organization, to connect this condition to the fundamental principles of humanistic philosophy. We show how a number of influential authors of the >third force< inspired many operators in the field of personal development, particularly in the world of coaching. Their solutions for optimal business organization, based on uniqueness and creativity, share a common ethical switch in favour of a new well-being management. Based on these observations, as well as recent criticism of leadership on ethical grounds (Allio, 2018), an integrated personal development is proposed, which pools all experiences under the aegis of a single pragmatic humanistic thought. Thanks to the application of an ethical balance between performance and wellbeing, a new development model of wellbeing through a generative performance is postulated.}, language = {en} } @article{O'DonnokoeSteffenLanger, author = {O'Donnokoe, Niclas and Steffen, Christopher and Langer, Phil C.}, title = {Hope in crisis: revisiting Erich Fromm's dialectic of transformation}, series = {Journal of Psychosocial Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. xx; DOI: 10.1332/14786737Y2024D000000029}, journal = {Journal of Psychosocial Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. xx; DOI: 10.1332/14786737Y2024D000000029}, abstract = {In this article we explore Erich Fromm's concept of hope within the context of contemporary social and political crises. We formulate two primary objections to his vision of a revolution of hope: the individualistic moralisation of societal problems, and the accusation that hope is persuasive and manipulative. By embedding Fromm's ideas within a broader dialectical framework and engaging with Walter Benjamin's thoughts on history, we reinterpret hope as a liminal, transformative state rather than a concrete, prescriptive notion. This reconceptualisation presents hope as a fundamental prerequisite for transformative political practice, emphasising its role in fostering active citizenship and collective social change. Ultimately, we argue for the critical importance of hope in navigating and overcoming the challenges of modernity.}, language = {en} } @article{Morelocketal, author = {Morelock, Jeremiah and et al.,}, title = {Towards living a better future: political vision and the humanistic conscience}, series = {Journal of Psychosocial Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. xx; DOI: 10.1332/14786737Y2024D000000028}, journal = {Journal of Psychosocial Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. xx; DOI: 10.1332/14786737Y2024D000000028}, abstract = {Fromm's theories can help the Left overcome its collective rejection of individualism and universalism, which limit socio-political possibility, offering Left solutions to these challenges and promoting alternate perspectives. His humanistic vision shares much with humanistic and positive psychology but differs in important respects. Centrally, Fromm's notion of emancipation emphasises both individual and societal components. He believes independent and authentic relationships are a higher expression of human potential and bring true fulfilment. Fromm identifies a creative, non-alienated character orientation that includes a 'humanistic conscience'. Comparing authoritarian and humanistic consciences, he emphasises human potential and social and individual interdependence. Personal development must also drive social change, and vice versa. Fromm's perspective rejects zero-sum, either/or thinking about social change vis-{\`a}-vis individual flourishing. For him, both are important, and they are related. Following Fromm's example, the Left should stress that individualistic societies cannot satisfy individual needs. Self-fulfilment requires fairness, community and shared personal experiences.}, language = {en} } @article{McLaughlinWegenschimmel, author = {McLaughlin, Neil and Wegenschimmel, Neil}, title = {How Erich Fromm Can Help Address the Jordan Peterson Problem in Psychoanalysis}, series = {Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Vol. 44, No. 1 (2024), pp. 53-70. [Online ISSN 0735-1690] [doi.org/10.1080/07351690.2023.2296367]}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Vol. 44, No. 1 (2024), pp. 53-70. [Online ISSN 0735-1690] [doi.org/10.1080/07351690.2023.2296367]}, abstract = {The current political climate is marked by polarization, which presents new difficulties for psychoanalysis. Erich Fromm, as a Freudian theorist and clinician, is uniquely positioned to address these issues. Fromm is a politically radical thinker who can help psychoanalysis think about society and social injustice beyond the clinical context while avoiding the dangers of excessively orthodox left-wing thinking that risks taking the field away from its core mission. Fromm can help psychoanalysis avoid what we are calling the >Peterson problem,< which is partly the result of provocative and extreme ideas in institutions and psychoanalytic publications that create reputational problems for the field. The >Peterson problem< brings new attention to the political bias of left-liberal authoritarians inside the profession, who focus on changing society rather than healing individuals and neglect audiences outside the liberal university and highly educated classes and thus create space for polarizing figures like psychologist Jordan Peterson to fill the gap. Peterson's fame and influence serves as a lightning rod for the wider critique of left leaning political and cultural currents in psychoanalysis. Fromm can act as a role model as well as provide the intellectual resources for responding to these challenges.}, language = {en} } @article{McLaughlin, author = {McLaughlin, Neil}, title = {Answering populist attacks on psychosocial ideas: why Fromm matters more than Marcuse}, series = {Journal of Psychosocial Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. xx; DOI: 10.1332/14786737Y2024D000000032}, journal = {Journal of Psychosocial Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. xx; DOI: 10.1332/14786737Y2024D000000032}, abstract = {The reactionary American intellectual Christopher Rufo has made German critical theorist Herbert Marcuse the centre of his campaign to purge the American academy of radical ideas and movements. Marcuse's ideas have significant influence in contemporary psychosocial scholarship, so attacks on his work may have negative consequences for psychosocial scholars. Rufo's critique of the influence of Marcuse's ideas is mostly exaggerated but it contains elements of truth. This article will outline ways in which some of Marcuse's ideas are echoed in elements of the contemporary left/liberal intellectual and political orthodoxy. We revisit the Fromm/Marcuse debate from the 1950s, and offer an analysis of why Rufo might have picked Marcuse for attack when Fromm might well have been a viable target, as Fromm was in the 1980s when he was famously scapegoated by Allan Bloom in The Closing of the American Mind (1987). I then offer an analysis of how Erich Fromm's alternative psychosocial radicalism can help better defend the psychosocial perspective in mass politics than Marcuse's framework. Fromm's framework also offer a theoretical foundation for radical psychosocial studies that can help our field defend itself against the new McCarthyism of Rufo and his allies on the global right who are likely to attack radical psychosocial perspectives in the near future.}, language = {en} } @article{Lev, author = {Lev, Gideon}, title = {The dream-like event}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 2, 2024), pp. 020-029.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 2, 2024), pp. 020-029.}, abstract = {Sometimes real-life events seem unreal, due to their highly symbolic nature and relevance to the person's inner life. In this paper, I propose that although these events are actual, lived occurrences, they can be treated like dreams, with significant clinical effect. These >dream-like< events (DLEs) - distinguished from Jung's synchronicity events - seem to be universal, even though some people are more perceptive of them than others. DLEs are usually reported in therapy in a casual way, as something that happened recently, or as a recollection or association. The resemblance or connection to the patient's inner life is hidden from the patient, because of the unconscious element involved. Clinical examples of DLEs are presented, as well as ways of interpreting them. An attempt is made to put these unique, sometimes uncanny occurrences into the context of Bion's psychoanalytic ontology and into relation to his central concept, >O.<}, language = {en} } @article{Kulak, author = {Kulak, Aleksandras}, title = {Restoring the links in countertransference}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 2, 2024), pp. 004-011.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 2, 2024), pp. 004-011.}, abstract = {Psychoanalytic theory and practice consider both transference and countertransference as cornerstones for understanding those complicated psychological phenomena which psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy bring to light. The relationship between a patient and a psychoanalyst has been the crucial point on which our attention and interest is focused. In the intersubjective space of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, all interactions between the patient and the analyst are considered to mutually influence each participant of the analytic dyad. Together with patients, clinicians get involved in ambiguous, uncanny and unavoidable enactments. The understanding of the latter requires from a psychoanalyst not only to contain the patient's anxiety and reflect on the patient's inner feelings but also to stay open to the gamut of feelings, anxieties and conflicts that arise from the professional's experience. I suggest that accomplishing the complicated task of understanding both the patient`s and his own feelings and experience leads the analyst to the necessity of restoring links with himself. By means of clinical material, I make an attempt to show how the process of understanding an uncanny enactment becomes for the therapist a process of restoring the links in countertransference which, in turn, enables the therapist to interpret the patient's specific difficulties.}, language = {en} } @article{Kuehn, author = {K{\"u}hn, Thomas}, title = {Normative identity work: exploring Erich Fromm's perspective on self and society}, series = {Journal of Psychosocial Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. xx; DOI: 10.1332/14786737Y2024D000000033}, journal = {Journal of Psychosocial Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. xx; DOI: 10.1332/14786737Y2024D000000033}, abstract = {This article explores the potential of normative identity work to foster humanistic transformation, drawing from Erich Fromm's social theory. By engaging with Fromm's insights into the interplay between individuals and societal structures, the analysis demonstrates how identity work - understood as an ongoing process of self-construction within social contexts - can confront what Fromm terms the 'pathology of normalcy'. Central to the discussion are Fromm's reflections on identity and its relationship to the human needs for rootedness, relatedness and the construction of a frame of orientation. J14125The article integrates Fromm's views on identity with contemporary identity research, illustrating the tensions between conforming to societal expectations and the pursuit of self-realisation. It introduces the 'normative ABC of identity work', a model structured around three key dimensions: agency, belonging and coherence. This model offers a lens to examine the various ways societal forces shape identity work, influencing individuals in directions that may either align with societal norms or open pathways towards humanistic growth and transformation. In the conclusion, the article emphasises the relationship between identity work and Fromm's concept of social character, highlighting how social character can reflect and reinforce societal patterns while also pointing to the transformative potential embedded in humanistic values. This synthesis provides a critical framework for understanding how identity work can both sustain and challenge existing social norms and power structures.}, language = {en} } @article{KoƗoszyc, author = {KoƗoszyc, Dawid}, title = {Identity politics and the politics of difference: critical transformations in contemporary thought}, series = {Journal of Psychosocial Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. xx; DOI: 10.1332/14786737Y2024D000000031}, journal = {Journal of Psychosocial Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. xx; DOI: 10.1332/14786737Y2024D000000031}, abstract = {This article explores the relationship between identity politics and the politics of difference, focusing especially on the tensions that characterise this relationship within progressive theories and political discourses, and on their implications. The development of the concepts of identity and difference, as well as their limits and possibilities, are examined in relation to several theorists: Slavoj Žižek, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, Michel Foucault, Cornel West and Judith Butler. This is followed by a discussion of Fromm's social psychology insofar as it anticipates the growing importance of the concepts of identity and difference within late modern culture, and insofar as it identifies a number of critical concerns around these concepts which remain relevant today.}, language = {en} } @article{Kalsoom, author = {Kalsoom, Qudsia}, title = {To Have or to Be - Reimagining the Focus of Education for Sustainable Development}, series = {Educational Philosophy and Theory, Vol. 56, No. 4 (2024), pp. 381-391 [Online ISSN 1469-5812] [doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2023.2246639]}, journal = {Educational Philosophy and Theory, Vol. 56, No. 4 (2024), pp. 381-391 [Online ISSN 1469-5812] [doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2023.2246639]}, abstract = {Three decades ago, the term Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) entered educational discourse. However, it is important to note that the concept of >ESD< did not emerge from scholarly debates on education, rather as a tool to carry forward the agenda of sustainable development. As a result, it has been conceptualized in many different ways. This article is an attempt to further the debate on ESD-conceptualization. The paper discusses connections between constructivism, transformative learning, and Erich Fromm's idea of >to be< and argues that the focus of ESD needs to change from narrow behavioural outcomes to emancipating learners to ask critical questions, decide (without the influence of anonymous authority of capitalism) and engage in activities that allows them to develop an authentic relationship with their world. The article suggests that consistent opportunities (inside and outside the classroom) to reflect and question the >having< mode and taking steps towards >being< mode will address the problem of >otherness< and contribute towards a more sustainable world.}, language = {en} } @article{Joannidis, author = {Joannidis, Chris}, title = {Binocular vision in the total sitation}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 2, 2024), pp. .}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 2, 2024), pp. .}, abstract = {This paper investigates the concept of >total situation,< which, even though introduced into psychoanalytic thinking via sister disciplines, has gradually acquired a relatively prominent position in therapeutic practice. It is used as a metaphor for the envelopment of the unfolding transferential and otherwise events in the analytic process. Irrespective of whether one focuses on the individual analytic condition or the group analytic one, contemporary psychoanalytic perspectives include both bipersonal unconscious interactions as well as the various levels of the total situation in their conceptualizations of the nature of the process. Such a complex approach can only be achieved through the so-called binocular vision of the analyst.}, language = {en} } @article{Gohl, author = {Gohl, Christopher}, title = {Reimagining Business Ethics as Ethos-Driven Practice: A Deweyan Perspective}, series = {Journal of Human Values, Vol. 30 (No. 1, 2024) pp. 75-90.}, journal = {Journal of Human Values, Vol. 30 (No. 1, 2024) pp. 75-90.}, abstract = {As business ethics is grappling with criticisms of its relevance for ethical practice, it may find perspective and direction in various conceptions of ethos. While 'ethics' is rooted in 'ethos', a term with a long and rich history of interdisciplinary research, conceptions of ethos are so far scarcely discussed in business ethics. The purpose of this conceptual article is to explore the potential of a pivot towards business ethics as an ethos-driven practice, drawing on John Dewey's work. First, it introduces four conceptions of ethos from interdisciplinary research and explores their varied resonance in business ethics. Second, it offers a unified conception of ethos that builds on John Dewey's approach to economics, moral life and ethics, particularly on his understanding of habits and forms of valuation. It is then argued that understanding ethos in terms of 'valued modes of embedded, embodied and associational conduct' encourages business ethics to engage in the intelligent, practical and meaningful reconstruction of evolving business practices. The article concludes that an 'ethotical turn' for business ethics would not only invigorate practical, corporeal and environmental perspectives but also open the field to interdisciplinary insights and ideas.}, language = {en} } @article{GazzilloLeonardi, author = {Gazzillo, Francesco and Leonardi, Jessica}, title = {Burdening guilt: Theoretical and clinical features}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 2, 2024), pp. 039-050.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 2, 2024), pp. 039-050.}, abstract = {The aim of this paper is to explore the theoretical and clinical features of burdening guilt according to control-mastery theory (CMT), an integrative, relational cognitive-dynamic theory of mental functioning, psychopathology, and psychotherapy. CMT posits that burdening guilt stems from the belief that one's emotions, needs, and way of being are a burden to significant others. After having introduced some research data about the belief of being a burden to others, we will point out how CMT explains this belief in light of a coherent theory of development, emphasizing its connection with early traumatic or adverse experiences with caregivers that give rise to the formation of pathogenic beliefs. These beliefs are mostly unconscious, and influence the way people make sense of themselves and their reality, giving rise to symptoms, inhibitions, and maladaptive personality traits that obstruct the achievement of healthy and adaptive goals. We will then compare burdening guilt with omnipotent responsibility guilt and self-hate, highlighting the points of contact and the differences between these types of interpersonal guilt. Subsequently, we will point out the >double nature< of burdening guilt, describing how it represents both a self-blame for what one is, and the expression of the need to take care of important others. Finally, we will propose a clinical vignette to illustrate some manifestations of burdening guilt in the therapeutic context.}, language = {en} } @article{Funk, author = {Funk, Rainer}, title = {Erich Fromm's Contribution to Critical Theory (https://logosjournal.com/article/erich-fromms-contribution-to-critical-theory/)}, series = {Logos. An Online Quarterly Journal of Modern Culture, Politics and Society, New York (https://logosjournal.com), Vol. 24, No. 2.}, journal = {Logos. An Online Quarterly Journal of Modern Culture, Politics and Society, New York (https://logosjournal.com), Vol. 24, No. 2.}, language = {en} } @article{Funk, author = {Funk, Rainer}, title = {Humanistic transformation and the ego-oriented social character - https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2024.2329572}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 3, 2024), pp. 086-094.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 3, 2024), pp. 086-094.}, abstract = {This paper explores Erich Fromm's significant scientific contribution through his development of a theory and method that elucidates the representation of society within the individual through their psychic structure formation, termed the >social character.< Initially, an outline of Fromm's theory and methodology is presented, highlighting his insights into the formation of various social characters and examining their alienating and pathogenic impacts as >socially patterned defects.< Using the example of the authoritarian character conceived by Fromm, it is relatively easy to understand from a historical distance what the >socially patterned defects< consist of and how a humanistic transformation ought to look. This will be illustrated in a second part. Since the formation of social character is time-related, the third part uses Fromm's theory and method to analyze the effects of the digital revolution on the formation of social character. The >ego-oriented social character< I have identified distinguishes itself from both the marketing character and narcissistic social character formations. This is reflected last but not least in the >socially patterned defects< of a pronounced ego weakness, which will be discussed in conclusion.}, language = {en} } @article{EspinosaRugarcia, author = {Espinosa_Rugarcia, Amparo}, title = {Delinquent violence, criminal justice in Mexico, and Erich Fromm in real time}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 3, 2024), pp. 119-126.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 3, 2024), pp. 119-126.}, abstract = {The efforts of the Mexican authorities to defeat insecurity, violence, and crime have not been successful. It seems that the prison system plays a major role in this. Delinquent violence forces us to look for different options and conditions. Proposals that emanated from the humanist psychoanalysis promoted by Erich Fromm, who lived in Mexico for over 20 years from the late 1950s to the mid 1970s, are therapeutic resources and paths of analysis. These allow us to identify both the productive and the creative aspects of the individual personality propelling the person to their social integration. The aim is to guide individuals toward a biophilic character and to the construction of a fair society provided with hope and liberty. The mission of the Instituto Mexicano de Psicoan{\´a}lisis (IMPAC; Mexican Institute of Psychoanalysis), founded in Mexico City in 1963 by Erich Fromm, is to: spread Fromm's intellectual legacy through psychoanalytic training; pay specialized attention to persons in need of psychotherapies and analytic psychotherapies; disseminate Fromm's thoughts by publishing them; undertake professional research; plus, recently, collaborate with federal agencies for justice procurement and human rights defense. This has made it possible to convince us of the appropriateness, validity, and efficacy of humanist psychoanalysis to approach and become involved in benefiting Mexican society.}, language = {en} } @article{ChancerMcLaughlin, author = {Chancer, Lynn S. and McLaughlin, Neil}, title = {Why Fromm now? Envisioning a saner society}, series = {Sociological Forum - Wiley Online Library, Vol. 2024, pp. 1-12. - https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.13035}, journal = {Sociological Forum - Wiley Online Library, Vol. 2024, pp. 1-12. - https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.13035}, abstract = {Erich Fromm has long been a forgotten intellectual despite his status as a major critical theorist and sociologist in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s but his work is being returned to with new enthusiasm because of events in the world, developments within sociology and new interest in psychosocial analysis dealing with emotions. This paper theorizes Fromm's return to scholarly influence now, offering analysis of both his reputational fate in light of the rise of global Trumpism and right wing-populism and the value of the tools his unique merger of Freud, Marx and sociology offers in the contemporary moment.}, language = {en} } @article{Chancer, author = {Chancer, Lynn S.}, title = {Reconsidering Fromm and feminisms, part II: a case for psychosocial compatibilities}, series = {Journal of Psychosocial Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. xx; DOI: 10.1332/14786737Y2024D000000034}, journal = {Journal of Psychosocial Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. xx; DOI: 10.1332/14786737Y2024D000000034}, abstract = {This article continues an earlier one about how the work of Erich Fromm and feminist theories are compatible despite the connection usually remaining overlooked. Drawing on Fromm's critique of Freud's analysis of Dora, but also going further, I argue that associating Fromm and contemporary feminist thought is particularly important in the context of growing authoritarianism on the right and sometimes as reflected also on the left. The article elaborates upon five points of 'psychosocial compatibility' between Fromm's humanistic vision and the ideas of several well-known feminist theorists including Simone de Beauvoir, Nancy Chodorow, Jessica Benjamin and others. The five points of psychosocial compatibility addressed between From and contemporary feminisms as addressed here are: connecting the personal and the political while stressing the prefigurative; kindred issues concerning objectification and self-love; emphases on relatedness and the pre-oedipal stage of human development; concerns about multi-dimensionality and intersectionality; and shared political beliefs aimed at overcoming gender and other oppressive inequalities.}, language = {en} } @article{Carvalho, author = {Carvalho, Bruno}, title = {Adorno and Fromm: A debate on psychoanalytic clinical practice}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 3, 2024), pp. 126-138.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 3, 2024), pp. 126-138.}, abstract = {Numerous studies have emphasized the importance of psychoanalysis in Critical Theory. It is often asserted that authors within this tradition, seeking to understand the contradictory elements of capitalism, have approached psychoanalysis primarily from a theoretical perspective. This article highlights a significant exception to this prevailing trend: a profound and still relevant debate on transference, more precisely, the management of love, empathy, compassion, and coldness in clinical practice. Indeed, Theodor Adorno and Erich Fromm were the actors of this discussion, and, as a result, they stand among the pioneers in analyzing psychoanalytic clinical practice and its social function. In 1935, Fromm published an article in which Freud is depicted as a revolutionary figure for introducing the concept of the unconscious. This revolution is, nevertheless, constrained by bourgeois values, which inevitably shaped the goals and societal role of the psychoanalytic technique. Adorno, however, defended Freud and attempted to comprehend the critical function of the analyst's coldness. This paper concludes by underscoring the enduring relevance of this discussion within Adorno's work while also pointing to the fact that the issue of empathy remains a topic of continual debate within the realms of critical theory and the broader field of psychoanalysis.}, language = {en} } @article{Byrd, author = {Byrd, Dustin J.}, title = {Can religion be rescued in the 21st century? On Erich Fromm's religious humanism in an age of authoritarian populism}, series = {Journal of Psychosocial Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. xx; DOI: 10.1332/14786737Y2024D000000027}, journal = {Journal of Psychosocial Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. xx; DOI: 10.1332/14786737Y2024D000000027}, abstract = {In the recent years, much of the West has seen the rise of right-wing forms of authoritarian populism and their attacks on democracy and the multicultural societies. In many cases, such movements have recruited Christian traditions, ideas, and symbols into their nativist agenda. Nevertheless, the aspects of Christianity that have been functionalised have been primarily the 'exterior' of religion, wherein the humanistic core have all been neglected. On the basis of the Erich Fromm's understanding of the world religions' humanistic core, and informed by the Frankfurt School, I demonstrate the hollowness of the right-wing movements adoption of religion, and argue for a new form of humanistic-religious ecumenicism on the basis of the shared values, principles, and ideals that rest at the heart of religion and humanistic philosophy.}, language = {en} } @article{Braune, author = {Braune, Joan}, title = {The psychological is crucial: why Erich Fromm's understanding of human needs contributes to defeating fascism}, series = {Journal of Psychosocial Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. xx; DOI: 10.1332/14786737Y2024D000000036}, journal = {Journal of Psychosocial Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. xx; DOI: 10.1332/14786737Y2024D000000036}, abstract = {This article uses Erich Fromm's list of five fundamental human needs discussed in >The Sane Society< (1955) to critically explore the role of psychological needs and desires in the concerning resurgence of fascist and far-right movements globally and especially in the United States. First, the article addresses the hesitancy expressed by some activists and theorists about engaging psychology in relation to fascism. I critique the view that such psychological inquiry undermines structural critique of society. I demonstrate that unproductive and harmful attempts to meet human needs outlined by Fromm are contributing to fascist resurgence and also to the rise of the 'fascistic' mass shooter, who must be understood as both influenced by structural/political dynamics and by the personal attempt to resolve the 'existential' problems of human life described by Fromm.}, language = {en} } @article{Thompson, author = {Thompson, Michael}, title = {The ontological structure of Erich Fromm's critical humanism. Paper of the special issue on >Humanistic transformation and its implications for psychoanalytic theory and therapy<}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 2, 2024), pp. xxx.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 2, 2024), pp. xxx.}, abstract = {This paper explores Erich Fromm's concept of humanism, arguing that it provides us with a unified theory for both clinical work as well as social criticism. Fromm's humanistic ideas are rooted in a structure of thought that sees our existence, our ontology as human beings, as constituted by our inherent capacities for both relatedness as well as positing ends and purposes in the world. By cultivating a self-awareness of these dual capacities, we can achieve a state of freedom, a self-consciousness of our capacity to shape our reality as opposed to conforming ourselves to it. In this way, Fromm's ideas constitute a critical humanism that can be realized in the world via self- and social transformation and not merely an abstract set of principles or concepts.}, language = {en} } @article{Rudnytsky, author = {Rudnytsky, Peter L.}, title = {The Social Determinants of Psychoanalytic Therapy: Fromm's Anti-Authoritarian >Calling Card<}, series = {Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 009-014.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 009-014.}, abstract = {This article examines Fromm's 1935 paper, >The Social Determinants of Psychoanalytic Therapy,< situating it in the context of Fromm's life and setting forth its contrast between Freud's >authoritarian, patricentric attitude< and the >humane, philanthropic attitude< of Ferenczi, who was deeply influenced by Groddeck. Despite critiquing Fromm's tendency to give insufficient attention to the >the individual fate of the person,< such as would be necessary to explain the differences between Freud and Ferenczi, in expounding his concept of the >social character,< the present paper argues that Fromm's >calling card,< published while Freud was still alive, is >one of the greatest papers in the psychoanalytic literature.<}, language = {en} } @article{Romanetto, author = {Romanetto, Matheus}, title = {Is There Room for Otherness in Humanism? Erich Fromm's Alternative}, series = {Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 071-084.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 071-084.}, abstract = {Humanism has been criticized as a philosophical and political stance from different points of view in recent decades. The paper summarizes four common types of criticism, stemming from political, ethical, technological, and ecological concerns. These criticisms relate back to a preoccupation with the respect for otherness or difference, either toward human or non-human beings. The paper tries to demonstrate that these concerns are also to be found as essential elements in the development of humanism itself, not only among its political and theoretical opponents. It does so with reference to Erich Fromm's works, where a life-oriented ethics is coupled with a demand for sustained political relatedness to difference, without giving up notions of a radical humanism and the anthropology that accompanies it.}, language = {en} } @article{Philipson, author = {Philipson, Ilene}, title = {The Plague of Certitude: Why Fromm Matters Today}, series = {Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 045-052.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 045-052.}, abstract = {Today, a plague of certitude is spreading within American psychoanalysis. This socially constructed virus is increasingly dominating our unmoderated list serves, appearing in our journals, and slowly seeping into our institutes. Having transcended the objectivism of traditional Freudian analysis, we seem to be revivifying its spirit. Rigorous claims to truth, superior knowledge, and contempt for those not in agreement abound. The life and work of psychoanalyst and sociologist Erich Fromm is offered as an antidote and model for resistance to this plague. He consistently objected to all forms of authoritarianism, from the Right and the Left. As a radical humanist he viewed us all as responsible selves, not mere vessels for instinctual drives or victims of unbearable circumstances. As Paul Roazan said about Fromm: >It still seems to me remarkable how he was willing to stand up for what he believed in. He should be a model of independence and autonomy for us all.<}, language = {en} } @article{Philipson, author = {Philipson, Ilene}, title = {From the lonely crowd to the cyber mob: Fromm on the social consequences of loneliness. Paper of the special issue on >Humanistic transformation and its implications for psychoanalytic theory and therapy<}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 2, 2024), pp. xxx.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 2, 2024), pp. xxx.}, abstract = {In 1950, sociologist David Riesman published a best-selling book entitled The lonely crowd: A study of the changing American character. Famously, he described the ascendant >other directed< person as being haunted by an inner loneliness. This paper seeks to explain the current phenomenon of the cyber mob, an online crowd of peers gathered together to intimidate and >cancel<" others, as a form of group behavior founded in profound aloneness and alienation brought about by neoliberal society. While the existence of online groups or mobs is overdetermined, the desire to belong, to feel a part of something larger than oneself, and to escape a haunting inner loneliness may be the twenty-first-century corollary of what Reisman described 73 years ago. With the rise of authoritarianism throughout the world, climate change, massive inequality, pandemic, and the breakdown of moral authority, people on both the Left and the Right cling to cyber mobs to escape aloneness, discharge fear and rage, and acquire affirmation and acceptance through >likes< and >retweets.< While they seem to provide bonding and empowerment, what cyber mobs offer in truth is greater ferocious tribalism and the further undoing of social bonds, fellow feeling, and the remnants of civil society.}, language = {en} } @article{MellaAlcazar, author = {Mella Alcazar, Amihan April}, title = {Autism and Social Media Viewed from the Perspective of Erich Fromm}, series = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 116-134.}, volume = {e28/2024p}, journal = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 116-134.}, language = {en} } @article{McLaughlin, author = {McLaughlin, Neil}, title = {How Erich Fromm Can Help Address the Jordan Peterson Problem in Psychoanalysis}, series = {Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 053-070.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 053-070.}, abstract = {The current political climate is marked by polarization, which presents new difficulties for psychoanalysis. Erich Fromm, as a Freudian theorist and clinician, is uniquely positioned to address these issues. Fromm is a politically radical thinker who can help psychoanalysis think about society and social injustice beyond the clinical context while avoiding the dangers of excessively orthodox left-wing thinking that risks taking the field away from its core mission. Fromm can help psychoanalysis avoid what we are calling the >Peterson problem,< which is partly the result of provocative and extreme ideas in institutions and psychoanalytic publications that create reputational problems for the field. The >Peterson problem< brings new attention to the political bias of left-liberal authoritarians inside the profession, who focus on changing society rather than healing individuals and neglect audiences outside the liberal university and highly educated classes and thus create space for polarizing figures like psychologist Jordan Peterson to fill the gap. Peterson's fame and influence serves as a lightning rod for the wider critique of left leaning political and cultural currents in psychoanalysis. Fromm can act as a role model as well as provide the intellectual resources for responding to these challenges.}, language = {en} } @article{Layton, author = {Layton, Lynne}, title = {Erich Fromm: Ancestor of Social Psychoanalytic Practice}, series = {Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 026-036.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 026-036.}, abstract = {Erich Fromm offered two key psychoanalytic concepts that bridge the psychic and the social: social unconscious and social character. In his view, these concepts are not only critical for understanding socio-historical phenomena but also ought to inform psychoanalytic clinical practice such that it might resist unconsciously encouraging patients to adapt to inequitable social conditions. This essay pays tribute to Fromm's thinking while elaborating some of the differences between Fromm's understanding of social unconscious/social character and my own. I argue that >social unconscious< does not quite capture the dynamic and conflictual nature of unconscious process, the ongoing conflict that social demands for conformity create in subject formation. To address that conflict, I propose the bridging concept of normative unconscious processes, processes that are always in conflict with counter-normative resistances. Points of both conflict and dissociation are precisely where analysts can challenge the psychic effects of oppressive social norms. Further, while agreeing with Fromm that analyzing social character ought to be central to clinical work, I argue that various and overlapping systemic oppressions - e.g. racism, heterosexism, classism - create, in any given society, multiple social characters and not just one dominant type. In agreement with Fromm's argument that analysts themselves need to reckon with their own social character, I stress the importance for all of us to be as aware as possible of our own identity investments and social locations within unequal and overlapping power hierarchies.}, language = {en} } @article{Kubsda, author = {Kubsda, Michael}, title = {Young People's Identity Problems. Notes from a Frommian Perspective}, series = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 112-115.}, volume = {e28/2024o}, journal = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 112-115.}, language = {en} } @article{Hahn, author = {Hahn, Marie}, title = {I Shall Not Hate: A Theatre Pedagogical Examination of the Phenomenon of Hate and Fromm's Theory of a Productive Character Orientation}, series = {Tiedemann, M. (Ed.): Philosophical Education Beyond the Classroom, Stuttgart (Springer) 2024, pp 439-462. [Online ISBN 978-3-476-05948-2] [doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05948-2_26]}, journal = {Tiedemann, M. (Ed.): Philosophical Education Beyond the Classroom, Stuttgart (Springer) 2024, pp 439-462. [Online ISBN 978-3-476-05948-2] [doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05948-2_26]}, abstract = {>I shall not hate.< This sentence ends the production at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden about Izzeldin Abuelaish's biography, who lost three of his daughters in the violent conflict between Israel and Palestine. This particular attitude within a crisis situation becomes the starting point and framework of a teaching unit in which the students deal with the following questions: What is hate? Is it possible not to hate? How can hate be classified in the field of tension between the instinctual nature of human beings and a conscious attitude? How are crises and loss of orientation related to hate? Can a society be sick? How are Izzeldin's attitude and Fromm's theory of a productive character orientation connected and how is Izzeldin's or Fromm's offer of orientation to be judged against the background of crises and conflicts in the students' lifeworld? Through a visit to a performance as well as theatre pedagogical forms of work, an access to this complex thematic field will be created.}, language = {en} } @article{Gilligan, author = {Gilligan, Ian}, title = {Clothing, Sublimation, and the Enjoyment of War}, series = {Human Arenas (2024), 22 pp. [Online ISSN 2522-5804] [doi.org/10.1007/s42087-023-00397-9]}, journal = {Human Arenas (2024), 22 pp. [Online ISSN 2522-5804] [doi.org/10.1007/s42087-023-00397-9]}, abstract = {Intergroup aggression occurs in many animal species but warfare has no clear non-human analogues. Among the features distinguishing war is that despite its obvious disadvantages and horrors, war enjoys enormous psychological appeal, illustrated by its entertainment value. The enjoyment of war presents a challenge for explanatory models, which range from adaptive scenarios in evolutionary paradigms to social learning and psychological drive theories. Further problems arise from findings in ethnography and archaeology. Among mobile hunter-gatherers who led traditional lifestyles, warfare was less common in socially non-complex contexts and, arguably, warfare was absent where people were routinely naked. In prehistory, warfare may be limited to the recent evolutionary past. A speculative formulation is outlined, positing a contributary role for sublimation, as a psychological effect of clothing. The proposed role of sublimation in the enjoyment of war allows for a more nuanced perspective on archaeological, ethnographic, and phenomenological evidence, suggesting warfare is not necessarily synonymous with intergroup aggression and its enjoyment could be contingent on the routine presence of clothing.}, language = {en} } @article{Funk, author = {Funk, Rainer}, title = {What Does >Productive Orientation< Mean According to Erich Fromm?}, series = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 081-111.}, volume = {e28/2024n}, journal = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 081-111.}, language = {en} } @article{Funk, author = {Funk, Rainer}, title = {On the Psychodynamics of Right-Wing Populism: A Frommian Perspective}, series = {Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 037-044.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 037-044.}, abstract = {The paper analyzes right-wing populism according to Erich Fromm's socialpsychoanalytic approach and using his social-characterological insights on authoritarianism and narcissism. Right-wing populism can be explained much more plausibly if it is understood as an expression of a reactive narcissistic identity construction rather than as a return of fascism and authoritarianism.}, language = {en} } @article{Friedson, author = {Friedson, Meredith L.}, title = {Dying to be born: How the failure to achieve mature love keeps humanity shackled to a necrophilic orientation. Paper of the special issue on >Humanistic transformation and its implications for psychoanalytic theory and therapy<}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 2, 2024), pp. xxx.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 2, 2024), pp. xxx.}, abstract = {Humanity is in crisis, and has been accelerating toward its own destruction. This is evident in: apathy toward climate change and the extinction of several species; the repetitive cycle of genocide and war; and the prevalence of nationalism, fascism, and xenophobia. As a citizen of the United States, I apply Erich Fromm's concepts of mature love, capitalism, alienation, the necrophilic character orientation, and insanity to the ailments plaguing the US, including: (1) white supremacy; (2) the systemic oppression of Black and Brown people; (3) legislation against women and LGBTQ and people; and (4) anti-maskers and science deniers. I also provide a critique of the noxious effects of capitalism. Fromm's ideas suggest these problems are a reflection of our collective failure to overcome our separateness through mature love, and are a byproduct of destructive, compensatory defenses that further our alienation and deadness. Fromm describes humanity as being in its psychological nascence, and defines being fully born as being a complete, integrated individual who is capable of self-love and of loving all other living beings. To correct our current trajectory, we need only apply Fromm's work in order to not compulsively repeat our tragic history in a tumultuous struggle to be born.}, language = {en} } @article{Frie, author = {Frie, Roger}, title = {Long Shadows of Racism and Genocide: Learning from Erich Fromm's Social Psychoanalysis}, series = {Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 015-025.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 015-025.}, abstract = {As a psychoanalyst, Fromm felt compelled to speak to the social and political crises of his time. Fromm's social psychoanalysis was a radical departure from the Freudian mainstream and has important implications for how psychoanalysis can address social and political forces today. What is less known and often neglected is the way in which Fromm was himself shaped by the traumatic events of racial discrimination and genocide that marked the twentieth century, particularly the rise of Nazism, virulent anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. This article will weave together Fromm's life-experience, and that of his family, with his development of key ideas relating to the threat of authoritarianism and racial narcissism. To illustrate the relevance of Fromm's work in the present moment, I consider the reality of systemic racism and the long shadow of genocide. Drawing on my work as practicing psychoanalyst, I address the racial discrimination experienced by Indigenous peoples in Canada. In the process, I examine how the psychoanalysis and the therapeutic setting is embedded in society and inevitably implicated in the structures of systemic racism.}, language = {en} } @article{Frie, author = {Frie, Roger}, title = {Erich Fromm's social psychoanalysis: Beyond the interpersonal dyad (https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2023.2285697)}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 2, 2024), pp. xxx.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 2, 2024), pp. xxx.}, abstract = {This article addresses the place of society in Erich Fromm's pioneering psychoanalytic work and in the evolution of interpersonal theory and practice. It suggests that there is much to be gained from a re-examination of Fromm's politically progressive perspective. By bridging sociology and psychoanalysis, Fromm developed a new approach known as >social psychoanalysis,< which sought to explain and understand the centrality of society in human experience and the therapeutic process. Fromm moved beyond Freud and found an ally in the American psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan. Together, Fromm and Sullivan became the key founders of the Interpersonal School of Psychoanalysis located at the William Alanson White Institute in New York. Despite their commonalities, however, Fromm and Sullivan differed in central areas, particularly on the issue of "adaptation" to society. Sullivan believed that adaptation was a marker of successful personality development and Fromm maintained that society inscribed pathology into the human being. This difference would prove definitive as interpersonal psychoanalysis moved from its radical beginnings to become a dominant school of contemporary psychoanalysis that focused on the interpersonal dyad and the interactions between the analyst and patient.}, language = {en} } @article{Cortina, author = {Cortina, Mauricio}, title = {Epilogue: Erich Fromm's Relevance for Our Troubled World}, series = {Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 135-136.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 135-136.}, language = {en} } @article{Cortina, author = {Cortina, Mauricio}, title = {Rethinking Erich Fromm's Humanism and His View of Human Nature}, series = {Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 095-102.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 095-102.}, abstract = {This article reviews Fromm's view of human nature that is the basis for his existential humanism. Fromm's core idea was that the combination of minimal instinctual endowment, enormous expansion of our neocortex, and being born in a helpless state created a set of existential contradictions or dichotomies. The main contradiction or dichotomy is being part of nature yet transcending it by being aware of our mortality. Not being able to go back to the previous "harmony" with nature, humans must develop their capacity for reason, symbolic capacities, imagination and human solidarity or regress to symbiotic and incestuous ties. I make two main arguments. I show that instead of losing our instincts, humans retain three social instincts that we share with other social species, namely attachment instincts (and forming attachment bonds), affiliation to groups (group instinct) and sexual instincts. I show how these three instincts have been significantly transformed in relation to our great ape relatives making us a more flexible, adaptive, cooperative and ultrasocial species. Second I describe a new evolutionary paradigm in which genes and culture coevolve and influence each other, also known as the dual inheritance model. The main effect of this dual inheritance is that cultures, like genes, transmit information and knowledge from one generation to the next. The cumulative effect of cultural knowledge transmitted through thousands of generations is that we develop new modes of production, new technologies, art forms, and new cultural rituals and practices. To which we must adapt. This new view of what made us human puts Fromm's view of human nature and his radical humanism on a stronger sociobiological foundation. I close by making the argument that our group instinct is both our greatest strength and greatest weakness, making us a species with a >genius for good and evil<.}, language = {en} } @article{Cortina, author = {Cortina, Mauricio}, title = {Prologue: Erich Fromm's Relevance for Our Troubled World}, series = {Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 001-008.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 001-008.}, language = {en} } @article{Chancer, author = {Chancer, Lynn S.}, title = {How Fromm's Ideas Resonate Politically as well as Philosophically: The Contemporary Case of Guaranteed Income}, series = {Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 124-134.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 124-134.}, abstract = {Erich Fromm is not generally associated with policy positions and politics. Yet, Fromm was an early proponent of guaranteed income as an important practical entitlement necessary if greater human freedoms were to be realized. The article traces the development of the idea of basic (or guaranteed income) in US social movement history going back to the 1960s and including the writings of Erich Fromm on this topic. It argues that the concept of guaranteed income flows easily from, and is consonant with, Fromm's humanistic philosophy overall. Four reasons are offered, including those that are politically, ethically and pragmatically oriented, as to why providing basic income to all citizens has major advantages over the kind of economic precarity and anxieties that many people currently experience. Lastly, after making a multi-dimensional case for guaranteed income, the article responds to a common objection - namely, if basic income became universally available, people would not wish to work. Quite to the contrary, and as empirical experiments have shown, Fromm's ideas suggest that guaranteed income would encourage people to work with increased commitment and passion and that more positive than negative consequences would ensue from the concept becoming a widespread and much more generally accepted public policy.}, language = {en} } @article{Daniel, author = {Daniel, Burston}, title = {Remembering The Sane Society: An American Lament}, series = {Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 116-123.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 116-123.}, abstract = {Erich Fromm's book >The Sane Society< was published in 1955, the second year of President's Eisenhower's administration, but had a profound impact on the ideas and agendas of social activists during the 60s and 70s, including this author. Its central theses were that the middle-class prosperity characteristic of that era masked a >pathology of normalcy,< and that capitalism transforms active citizens into passive consumers by compelling people to fill their material needs in ways that are at variance with their existential or human needs. The result is a dramatic diminution of their critical faculties, an atrophy of conscience, and the proliferation of a >marketing character,< a kind of alienated, hedonistic lifestyle whose emptiness is palliated by the consumption of ever larger quantities of consumer goods. Fromm's analysis still rings true in some respects, but the middle-class prosperity and bland uniformity of opinion he critiqued began to wane in the late 1970s, gradually giving way to sharp extremes of poverty and wealth. The resulting political polarization has now reached a critical point, where the future of American democracy - or what little is left of it - is now in peril. So, as we approach 2025, Fromm's analysis of America in the mid-20th century must be updated and modified to fit the contours of contemporary social realities. In so doing, however, we discover that American society is even more alienated, more atomized and fragile than it was in Fromm's day.}, language = {en} } @article{Buechler, author = {Buechler, Sandra}, title = {Erich Fromm: Clinical Mountain Guide}, series = {Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 103-115.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 103-115.}, abstract = {Each psychoanalytic theory influences the clinician's focus. This paper examines the impact of Erich Fromm's writing on the analyst's attention to the material in sessions. Briefly, Fromm's work highlights the importance of the analyst's passion, courage, pursuit of truth, capacity to bear uncertainty and suffering, and dedication to helping people embrace their freedom and realize their full potential. Fromm has inspired generations of clinicians to become politically active citizens, maintain enlivening curiosity, and kindle the life force in themselves and those they treat. What role does theory play in the moment-by-moment behavior of the analyst in a session? I first address the general question of my view of the role of theory in clinical work. Then I turn to the more specific issue of Fromm's influence.}, language = {en} } @article{Buechler, author = {Buechler, Sandra}, title = {Why truth matters: Some notes on psychotherapy post truth. Paper of the special issue on >Humanistic transformation and its implications for psychoanalytic theory and therapy<}, abstract = {The very existence of truth, let alone its worth, is currently under attack from many quarters. In the wider culture, disinformation and other forms of misrepresenting the truth spread far and wide, as information conduits proliferate. This paper suggests some reasons for the >anti-truth< trend. Mainstream media have played a role, as have theoreticians from fields as diverse as philosophy, psychoanalysis, science, and literary criticism. >Anti-truth< trends are having a serious impact on psychological treatment, affecting its content and the conception of its goals. This paper suggests some problematic outcomes of this phenomenon for practitioners and patients in various forms of psychotherapy.}, language = {en} } @article{Buechler, author = {Buechler, Sandra}, title = {Erich Fromm's Clinical Influence}, series = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 052-080.}, volume = {e28/2024m}, journal = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 052-080.}, language = {en} } @article{Boltvinik, author = {Boltvinik, Julio}, title = {Erich Fromm - His Views on the Human Condition and Human Needs: Comparative Analysis with Maslow's and Maccoby's Need Schemes}, series = {Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 085-094.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 085-094.}, abstract = {Fromm's concept of the human condition and the existential dichotomies are described first; this is followed by Fromm's scheme of needs, including positive and negative responses; finally, Fromm need's scheme is compared with Maslow's need scheme and Maccoby's drive-values scheme. In the three cases a critical approach is taken which tries to identify weaknesses, omissions and contradictions in Fromm's thought.}, language = {en} } @article{Fromm, author = {Fromm, Erich}, title = {Should We Hate Hitler?}, series = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 047-051.}, volume = {e28/2024l}, journal = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 047-051.}, number = {reprint / Nachdruck}, language = {en} } @article{Fromm, author = {Fromm, Erich}, title = {Letter to the Extraordinary Cartel-Day of the Jewish Organizations Cartel}, series = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 041-044.}, volume = {e28/2024k}, journal = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 041-044.}, number = {translation / {\"U}bersetzung}, language = {en} } @article{Fromm, author = {Fromm, Erich}, title = {Where Does the Way Lead to?}, series = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 038-040.}, volume = {e28/2024j}, journal = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 038-040.}, number = {translation / {\"U}bersetzung}, language = {en} } @article{Fromm, author = {Fromm, Erich}, title = {Book Review of Gabe in honour of Rabbi Dr. Nobel 50th Birthday}, series = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 036-037.}, volume = {e28/2024i}, journal = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 036-037.}, number = {translation / {\"U}bersetzung}, language = {en} } @article{Fromm, author = {Fromm, Erich}, title = {Rabbi Nobel as Youth Leader}, series = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 034-035.}, volume = {e28/2024h}, journal = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 034-035.}, number = {translation / {\"U}bersetzung}, language = {en} } @article{Fromm, author = {Fromm, Erich}, title = {A Principled Word on the Question of Education}, series = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 026-033.}, volume = {e28/2024g}, journal = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 026-033.}, number = {translation / {\"U}bersetzung}, language = {en} } @article{Fromm, author = {Fromm, Erich}, title = {On the Mizrahi Delegates Convention}, series = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 023-025.}, volume = {e28/2024f}, journal = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 023-025.}, number = {translation / {\"U}bersetzung}, language = {en} } @article{Fromm, author = {Fromm, Erich}, title = {The Amsterdam Mizrahi World Conference}, series = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 020-022.}, volume = {e28/2024e}, journal = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 020-022.}, number = {translation / {\"U}bersetzung}, language = {en} } @article{Fromm, author = {Fromm, Erich}, title = {Traditional Judaism and Zionism}, series = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 014-019.}, volume = {e28/2024d}, journal = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 014-019.}, number = {translation / {\"U}bersetzung}, language = {en} } @article{Fromm, author = {Fromm, Erich}, title = {Jewish Students Association Ahdut, Frankfurt am Main}, series = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 013.}, volume = {e28/2024c}, journal = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 013.}, number = {translation / {\"U}bersetzung}, language = {en} } @article{Fromm, author = {Fromm, Erich}, title = {Obituary for Adolf Lissauer}, series = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 011-012.}, volume = {e28/2024b}, journal = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 011-012.}, number = {translation / {\"U}bersetzung}, language = {en} } @article{Fromm, author = {Fromm, Erich}, title = {On the Convention of the Agudah-Israel Youth Organization}, series = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 009-010.}, volume = {e28/2024a}, journal = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 009-010.}, number = {translation / {\"U}bersetzung}, language = {en} }