@article{Pongratz, author = {Pongratz, Ludwig A.}, title = {Moderne Technik und Nekrophilie - Notizen zum Nekrophiliekonzept bei Erich Fromm}, series = {Wissenschaft vom Menschen - Science of Man. Jahrbuch der Internationalen Erich-Fromm-Gesellschaft, M{\"u}nster (LIT Verlag), Vol. 1 (1990), pp. 56-66. [= PONGRATZ, L. A., 1987a.}, journal = {Wissenschaft vom Menschen - Science of Man. Jahrbuch der Internationalen Erich-Fromm-Gesellschaft, M{\"u}nster (LIT Verlag), Vol. 1 (1990), pp. 56-66. [= PONGRATZ, L. A., 1987a.}, abstract = {>Modern Technology and Necrophilia - Remarks on Erich Fromm's Concept of Necrophilia<: This article focusses mainly on elucidating Fromm's conception of the link between the main thrust of technological development in modern society, on the one hand, and the formation of a necrophiliac disposition in the contemporary social character structure, on the other. This was a topic Fromm devoted much attention to, particularly in his late research works. The author's concern is not simply to situate Fromm's analysis in the wider framework of comtemporary psychoanalytic research work dealing with the same topic; he also takes up the matter of the structural changes occurring in the forms of subconscious and day-to-day awareness that characterize members of modern society. From this perspective, the author shows how the changes in internal psychic dispositions noted by Fromm are intimately bound up with a subtle ongoing trend to increasing instrumentation and fragmentation in day-to-day life. This process becomes concretely graspable in the way the capacity for subjective experience has had walls erected around it and is even actively being destroyed. The consequences of this process are nothing short of alarming, for they point to a ever-present Fascist potential that constantly menaces high-technology society from within.}, language = {de} }