@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{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{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{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{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{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{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{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 = {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{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{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{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{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{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 = {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} } @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{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{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 = {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{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{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{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{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{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{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{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{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{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{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{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} }