@article{FunkMcLaughlin, author = {Funk, Rainer and McLaughlin, Neil}, title = {Introducci{\´o}n}, series = {R. Funk y N. McLaughlin (Eds.), Hacia una ciencia humana. La relevancia de Erich Fromm en la actualidad, M{\´e}xico (Demac), pp. 007-036.}, journal = {R. Funk y N. McLaughlin (Eds.), Hacia una ciencia humana. La relevancia de Erich Fromm en la actualidad, M{\´e}xico (Demac), pp. 007-036.}, language = {es} } @article{McLaughlin, author = {McLaughlin, Neil}, title = {Towards a Sociology of Ideas: A Response to the Comments}, series = {Sociologica, No.2, 2008, pp. 1-10.}, journal = {Sociologica, No.2, 2008, pp. 1-10.}, abstract = {This paper combines historical and biographical work on the Frankfurt School of critical theorists with a sociological approach to intellectual creativity outlined in Michael Farrell's provocative book Collaborative Circles: Friendship Dynamics and Creative Work. Revisiting earlier research on the often unheralded role the psychoanalyst Erich Fromm played in the early years of the critical theory tradition, the paper reviews the theory of collaborative circles outlined by Farrell, applies this social science explanation of conflict and creativity to the Frankfurt School network of Horkheimer, Fromm, Adorno, Marcuse, Lowenthal etc. and suggests a new way of thinking about the history of this innovative and controversial group of social theorists and researchers. The paper concludes by suggesting revisions to the Farrell model of collaborative circles and compares and contrasts the strengths of the theory to the "scientific intellectual movements" approach outlined by Frickel and Gross.}, language = {en} } @article{McLaughlin, author = {McLaughlin, Neil}, title = {Escapes from Freedom: Political Extremism, Conspiracy Theories, and the Sociology of Emotions}, series = {L. Chancer and J. Andrews (Eds.), The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis. Diverse Perspectives on the Psychosocial (Studies in the Psychosocial, ed. by Peter Redman), New York (Palgrave Macmillan) 2014, pp. 161-189.}, journal = {L. Chancer and J. Andrews (Eds.), The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis. Diverse Perspectives on the Psychosocial (Studies in the Psychosocial, ed. by Peter Redman), New York (Palgrave Macmillan) 2014, pp. 161-189.}, language = {en} } @article{McLaughlin, author = {McLaughlin, Neil}, title = {When Worlds Collide: Sociology, Disciplinary Nightmares and Fromm's Revision of Freud}, series = {The Psychoanalytic Review, Vol. 102 (No. 4, August 2017), pp. 384-388-415-436.}, journal = {The Psychoanalytic Review, Vol. 102 (No. 4, August 2017), pp. 384-388-415-436.}, language = {en} } @article{SilverMcLaughlin, author = {Silver, Catherine B. and McLaughlin, Neil}, title = {Introduction to the Special Issue on Erich Fromm's Legacy}, series = {The Psychoanalytic Review, Vol. 102 (No. 4, August 2017), pp. 384-388-}, journal = {The Psychoanalytic Review, Vol. 102 (No. 4, August 2017), pp. 384-388-}, language = {en} } @misc{McLaughlin, author = {McLaughlin, Neil}, title = {Review Burston, D. R.: The Legacy of Erich Fromm, Typescript 1992, 18 p.}, number = {unpublished version / unver{\"o}ffentlichte Fassung}, language = {en} } @misc{McLaughlin, author = {McLaughlin, Neil}, title = {Review Burston, D. R.: The Legacy of Erich Fromm}, series = {Society, Vol.29 (No. 5, 1992), pp. 92-94.}, journal = {Society, Vol.29 (No. 5, 1992), pp. 92-94.}, language = {en} } @article{McLaughlin, author = {McLaughlin, Neil}, title = {How to Become a Forgotten Intellectual: Fromm, Derrida and Orwell Columbus 1995, private Typescript, 54 pp.}, number = {unpublished version / unver{\"o}ffentlichte Fassung}, language = {en} } @article{McLaughlin, author = {McLaughlin, Neil}, title = {Nazism, Nationalism, and the Sociology of Emotions: Escape from Freedom Revisited}, series = {Sociological Theory, Washington (American Sociological Association) Vol. 14 (No. 3, November 1996), pp. 241-261.}, journal = {Sociological Theory, Washington (American Sociological Association) Vol. 14 (No. 3, November 1996), pp. 241-261.}, language = {en} } @article{McLaughlin, author = {McLaughlin, Neil}, title = {Why Do Schools of Thought Fail? NeoFreudianism as a Case Study in the Sociology of Knowledge}, series = {Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Columbus Vol. 34, (No. 2, Spring 1998), pp. 113-134.}, journal = {Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Columbus Vol. 34, (No. 2, Spring 1998), pp. 113-134.}, language = {en} } @article{McLaughlin, author = {McLaughlin, Neil}, title = {How to Become a Forgotten Intellectual: Intellectual Movements and the Rise and Fall of Erich Fromm}, series = {Sociological Forum, Vol. 13 (No. 2, 1998), pp. 215-246. [Cf. also Mclaughlin, N., 1995] .}, journal = {Sociological Forum, Vol. 13 (No. 2, 1998), pp. 215-246. [Cf. also Mclaughlin, N., 1995] .}, abstract = {Most reputation studies focus on canonized intellectuals, scholars, and artists. With few exceptions, there has been little detailed examination of the sociological dynamics involved in exclusion. Examined here are the ideas and reputation history of the German psychoanalyst and sociologist Erich FROMM, expanding the repu-tation model outlined by Michele Lamont in >How to Become a Dominant French Intellectual: The Case of Jacques Derrida.< The example of Erich FROMM provides support for a modified version of Lamont's model as well as a level analysis framework. FROMM was a prestigious intellectual in sociology, psychoanalysis, and US intellectual life in the 1940s and 1950s, but since has gone out fashion. Similar macro-, organizational, and microfactors explain both FROMM's decline and Derrida's rise to status after 1965. Emphasis is on the importance of symbolic boundaries within and between psychoanalysis, Marxism, and sociology as factors that both create and damage intellectual reputations.}, language = {en} } @article{McLaughlin, author = {McLaughlin, Neil}, title = {Critical Theory Meets America: Riesman, Fromm and The Lonely Crowd,}, series = {The American Sociologist, Vol. 32 (No. 1, Spring 2001), pp. 5-26.}, journal = {The American Sociologist, Vol. 32 (No. 1, Spring 2001), pp. 5-26.}, abstract = {A reading of David Riesman's classic The Lonely Crowd is presented that emphasizes its links with the critical theory of German psychoanalyst \& social critic Erich Fromm. The intellectual \& personal relationship between Riesman \& Fromm brings into focus Riesman's adaptation of the insights of European critical theory as well as the strengths of American social science \& social criticism. Riesman's rela-tively neglected theoretical approach has much to offer a sociology concerned with retaining its links to public debate \& empirical evidence.}, language = {en} } @article{McLaughlin, author = {McLaughlin, Neil}, title = {Erich Fromm and Sociology}, series = {Encyclopedia of Sociology, ed. By George Ritzer, London (Blackwell Publishers) London, 2006, pp. 1804-1808.}, journal = {Encyclopedia of Sociology, ed. By George Ritzer, London (Blackwell Publishers) London, 2006, pp. 1804-1808.}, language = {en} } @article{McLaughlin, author = {McLaughlin, Neil}, title = {Erich Fromm}, series = {Encyclopedia of European History, New York (Scribners) 2006.}, journal = {Encyclopedia of European History, New York (Scribners) 2006.}, language = {en} } @article{McLaughlin, author = {McLaughlin, Neil}, title = {Collaborative Circles and Their Discontents. Revisiting Conflict and Creativity in Frankfurt School Critical Theory}, series = {Sociologica, No.2, 2008}, journal = {Sociologica, No.2, 2008}, abstract = {This paper combines historical and biographical work on the Frankfurt School of critical theorists with a sociological approach to intellectual creativity outlined in Michael Farrell's provocative book Collaborative Circles: Friendship Dynamics and Creative Work. Revisiting earlier research on the often unheralded role the psychoanalyst Erich Fromm played in the early years of the critical theory tradition, the paper reviews the theory of collaborative circles outlined by Farrell, applies this social science explanation of conflict and creativity to the Frankfurt School network of Horkheimer, Fromm, Adorno, Marcuse, Lowenthal etc. and suggests a new way of thinking about the history of this innovative and controversial group of social theorists and researchers. The paper concludes by suggesting revisions to the Farrell model of collaborative circles and compares and contrasts the strengths of the theory to the >scientific intellectual movements< approach outlined by Frickel and Gross.}, language = {en} } @article{MclaughlinBurston, author = {Mclaughlin, Neil and Burston, Daniel}, title = {Letters to the Editor}, series = {Society, Vol. 30 (No. 2, February 1993, pp. 4-5.}, journal = {Society, Vol. 30 (No. 2, February 1993, pp. 4-5.}, language = {en} } @article{McLaughlin, author = {McLaughlin, Neil}, title = {?'Por qu{\´e} fracasan las escuelas de pensamiento? El Neo-freudianismo como caso de estudio para la sociolog{\´i}a del conocimiento [translation of McLaughlin_N_1998]}, series = {Apuntes. De investigaci{\´o}n del CECYP, Vol. 14 (No. 19, 2011), pp. 11-43.}, journal = {Apuntes. De investigaci{\´o}n del CECYP, Vol. 14 (No. 19, 2011), pp. 11-43.}, language = {es} } @misc{McLaughlin, author = {McLaughlin, Neil}, title = {Erich Fromm's Critical Theory: Prophetic, Scholarly or Revolutionary?}, series = {Canadian Journal of Sociology - Cahiers Canadiens de Sociologie, Vol. 40 No. 2, 2015), pp. 241-250.}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Sociology - Cahiers Canadiens de Sociologie, Vol. 40 No. 2, 2015), pp. 241-250.}, language = {en} } @misc{McLaughlin, author = {McLaughlin, Neil}, title = {Review Law, A., and Royal Lybeck, E. (Eds.); Sociological Amnesia: Cross-currents in Disciplinary History. London (Ashgate) 2015}, series = {Canadian Journal of Sociology - Cahiers Canadiens de Sociologie, Vol. 41 (No. 1, 2016), pp. 89-92.}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Sociology - Cahiers Canadiens de Sociologie, Vol. 41 (No. 1, 2016), pp. 89-92.}, language = {en} } @article{McLaughlin, author = {McLaughlin, Neil}, title = {Fromm's Revival: What Is to Be Done? English Typescript to be translated into Spanish by Jorge Silva [cf. McLaughlin_N_2006], 21 pp.}, language = {en} } @article{McLaughlin, author = {McLaughlin, Neil}, title = {Escape from Evidence? Popper, Social Science, and Psychoanalytic Social Theory}, series = {Dialogue, Canadian Philosophical Association, Vol. XLVI (2007), pp. 761-780.}, journal = {Dialogue, Canadian Philosophical Association, Vol. XLVI (2007), pp. 761-780.}, language = {en} } @article{McLaughlin, author = {McLaughlin, Neil}, title = {The Sociology, Biography, and Politics of Alienation}, series = {The Humanistic Psychologist, Vol. 42 (2014), pp. 292-297.}, journal = {The Humanistic Psychologist, Vol. 42 (2014), pp. 292-297.}, language = {en} } @article{McLaughlin, author = {McLaughlin, Neil}, title = {The coming triumph of the psychosocial perspective: lessons from the rise, fall and revival of Erich Fromm}, series = {Journal of Psychosocial Studies, Vol. 12( No. 1-2, 2019), pp. 9-22,}, journal = {Journal of Psychosocial Studies, Vol. 12( No. 1-2, 2019), pp. 9-22,}, language = {en} } @article{MerglerMcLaughlinTraore, author = {Mergler, Iga and McLaughlin, Neil and Traore, Ismael}, title = {Fromm, Erich}, series = {International Encyclopedia of the Social \& Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, Volume 9, 2015.}, journal = {International Encyclopedia of the Social \& Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, Volume 9, 2015.}, abstract = {This article presents an analytic history of the legacy of Erich Fromm, the German psychoanalyst, social psychologist, critical thinker, best-selling author, and an early member of the Frankfurt School. Fromm's intellectual insights flowed from aspects of his life and optimal marginality in relationship to various intellectual social movements and his complex relationship with the Frankfurt School. But Fromm also became a >forgotten intellectual< for some of the same biographical and sociological reasons. Ideas and scholarly influence can rise again as well as decline, so with his contemporary relevance in mind, we will discuss some of the underappreciated contributions Fromm made to the study of authoritarianism, race, and ethnicity as well as his influence on theories of gender and the practice of public sociology. There is new interest in Fromm's work, suggesting that he might find again a place in the history and contemporary scholarship in social psychology, sociology, critical theory, and psychoanalysis.}, language = {en} } @misc{McLaughlin, author = {McLaughlin, Neil}, title = {Review Durkin, K.: The Radical Humanism of Erich Fromm}, series = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 19 / 2015, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 72-74.}, volume = {e18/2015j}, journal = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 19 / 2015, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 72-74.}, language = {en} } @article{McLaughlinFunk, author = {McLaughlin, Neil and Funk, Rainer}, title = {Introduction}, series = {R. Funk and N. McLaughlin (Eds.), Towards a Human Science. The Relevance of Erich Fromm for Today, Giessen (Psychosozial-Verlag) 2015, pp. 9-29.}, journal = {R. Funk and N. McLaughlin (Eds.), Towards a Human Science. The Relevance of Erich Fromm for Today, Giessen (Psychosozial-Verlag) 2015, pp. 9-29.}, language = {en} } @article{FunkMcLaughlin, author = {Funk, Rainer and McLaughlin, Neil}, title = {Introduction}, series = {R. Funk and N. McLaughlin (Eds.), Towards a Human Science. The Relevance of Erich Fromm for Today, Giessen (Psychosozial-Verlag) 2015, pp. 9-29.}, journal = {R. Funk and N. McLaughlin (Eds.), Towards a Human Science. The Relevance of Erich Fromm for Today, Giessen (Psychosozial-Verlag) 2015, pp. 9-29.}, language = {en} } @article{MaccobyMcLaughlin, author = {Maccoby, Michael and McLaughlin, Neil}, title = {Sociopsychoanalysis and Radical Humanism: A Fromm-Bourdieu Synthesis}, series = {K. Durkin and J. Braune (Eds.), Erich Fromm's Critical Theory. Hope, Humanism, and the Future, New York (Bloomsbury) 2020, pp. 108-127.}, journal = {K. Durkin and J. Braune (Eds.), Erich Fromm's Critical Theory. Hope, Humanism, and the Future, New York (Bloomsbury) 2020, pp. 108-127.}, language = {en} } @article{McLaughlin, author = {McLaughlin, Neil}, title = {The Jordan Peterson Phenomena: Why Fromm's ideas and public intellectual vision is essential for responding to reactionary populism}, series = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 25 / 2021, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 074-089.}, volume = {e25/2021g}, journal = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 25 / 2021, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 074-089.}, language = {en} } @article{McLaughlin, author = {McLaughlin, Neil}, title = {How Political Was the Democratic Socialist Fromm?}, series = {J. Fantauzzi, M. Levitin, T. Maley (Eds.), Erich Fromm and Left Strategy . New Paths Toward Radical Transformation, New York (Palgrave Macmillan) 2025, pp. 255-284.}, journal = {J. Fantauzzi, M. Levitin, T. Maley (Eds.), Erich Fromm and Left Strategy . New Paths Toward Radical Transformation, New York (Palgrave Macmillan) 2025, pp. 255-284.}, language = {en} } @misc{McLaughlin, author = {McLaughlin, Neil}, title = {Review Frie, R.: Edge of Catastrophe: Erich Fromm, Fascism, and the Holocaust}, series = {Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 2025, No. 61; https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.70024}, journal = {Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 2025, No. 61; https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.70024}, language = {en} } @book{McLaughlin, author = {McLaughlin, Neil}, title = {Erich Fromm and Global Public Sociology, Bristol (Bristol University Press) 2023, 296 pp.}, 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{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{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} }