@article{Rudnytsky, author = {Rudnytsky, Peter L.}, title = {Trauma and Dissociation: Ferenczi between Freud and Severn}, series = {P. Rudnytsky: Formulated Experiences. Hidden Realities and Emergent Meanings from Shakespeare to Fromm, London and New York (Routledge) 2019, pp. 137-151.}, journal = {P. Rudnytsky: Formulated Experiences. Hidden Realities and Emergent Meanings from Shakespeare to Fromm, London and New York (Routledge) 2019, pp. 137-151.}, abstract = {The conflict between Freud and Ferenczi during Ferenczi's final period centers as much on their differences in technique as on Ferenczi's revival of Freud's pre-1897 trauma theory. Severn is the first patient since the 1890s whose childhood sexual trauma was the focus of her analysis, just as she was the first since Anna O. whose trauma-based dissociation was integral to her treatment. The corollary of the revival of trauma theory is a model of the mind based not on repression but dissociation. Ferenczi belongs to a tradition of analysts including Breuer, Fairbairn, and Sullivan who worked with a dissociation model. The fountainhead of this tradition is Janet, but though Ferenczi read and quoted from Janet, no references to Janet are found in Ferenczi's work after 1924, when he began to move away from Freud. It is necessary to integrate scholarship on Ferenczi with the vast body of work on dissociation. Ferenczi is situated between Freud and Severn. Reversing the traditional verdicts, Ferenczi's relationship to Freud is viewed as an enactment, whereas his relationship with Severn constitutes an authentic dialogue.}, language = {en} } @article{Rudnytsky, author = {Rudnytsky, Peter L.}, title = {The Other Side of the Story: Severn on Ferenczi and Mutual Analysis}, series = {P. Rudnytsky: Formulated Experiences. Hidden Realities and Emergent Meanings from Shakespeare to Fromm, London and New York (Routledge) 2019, pp. 117-136.}, journal = {P. Rudnytsky: Formulated Experiences. Hidden Realities and Emergent Meanings from Shakespeare to Fromm, London and New York (Routledge) 2019, pp. 117-136.}, abstract = {This chapter presents the discovery that Elizabeth Severn's 1933 book, The Discovery of the Self, contains disguised case histories of both herself and Ferenczi, and thereby constitutes a companion volume to Ferenczi's Clinical Diary. From having been known primarily as >R.N.,< the most important patient in the Diary, Severn emerges as a subject and original contributor to psychoanalysis in her own right. Severn's reception of Ferenczi's legacy is compared to that of two of his other American patients, Izette de Forest and Clara Thompson, the latter of whom envied Severn for her closeness to Ferenczi. Multiple correspondences between the accounts of Ferenczi and Severn of their mutual analysis, as well as of their histories, are set forth. The significance of Strindberg's play, The Father, for Ferenczi's transference to Severn is examined. Ferenczi and Severn are shown to have been two deeply traumatized individuals who healed themselves by finding their spiritual counterparts in each other.}, language = {en} } @article{Rudnytsky, author = {Rudnytsky, Peter L.}, title = {Introduction >One Man Cannot Be the Same as Many<: Glimpsing New Paradigms through Old Keyholes}, series = {P. Rudnytsky: Formulated Experiences. Hidden Realities and Emergent Meanings from Shakespeare to Fromm, London and New York (Routledge) 2019, pp. 1-35.}, journal = {P. Rudnytsky: Formulated Experiences. Hidden Realities and Emergent Meanings from Shakespeare to Fromm, London and New York (Routledge) 2019, pp. 1-35.}, abstract = {The introduction sets the stage for the ensuing chapters by meditating on the key phrases in the title, which are indebted to and inspired by the work of Donnel Stern as well as Philip Bromberg. Fromm is praised for his espousal of a humanistic psychoanalysis as well as his critique of authoritarianism, and his concept of >literary psychoanalysis< is introduced. Freud's interpretation of Oedipus Rex is shown to be important as much for its >unformulated< assumption of a >hidden reality< theory of the mind as for his extrapolation of the idea of the Oedipus complex. The humanism of Fromm is contrasted with Sullivan's claim that personal individuality is an >illusion<; Stern and Bromberg are critiqued for decoupling trauma from dissociation and for positing that these are normal conditions of the mind. It is argued that a forensic stance is warranted in hermeneutic endeavors and that it is possible to reconcile objectivist and constructivist epistemologies.}, language = {en} } @article{Rudnytsky, author = {Rudnytsky, Peter L.}, title = {>I Am Not What I Am<: Iago and Negative Transcendence}, series = {P. Rudnytsky: Formulated Experiences. Hidden Realities and Emergent Meanings from Shakespeare to Fromm, London and New York (Routledge) 2019, pp. 187-204.}, journal = {P. Rudnytsky: Formulated Experiences. Hidden Realities and Emergent Meanings from Shakespeare to Fromm, London and New York (Routledge) 2019, pp. 187-204.}, abstract = {This chapter tackles the perennial critical conundrum of Iago's motivation. Agreeing with Coleridge's assessment of his >motiveless malignity,< it argues that all attempts to explain Iago's character in terms of individual psychology prove inadequate and that he can be more satisfactorily understood by employing Fromm's concept of >social character.< Iago is the prototype of early modern capitalist man who exhibits the >pathology of normalcy< and exemplifies three of Fromm's four >unproductive orientations<—exploitative, hoarding, and marketing. Iago's lack of a sense of self leads him to destroy rather than to create, and thus manifests the impulse for negative transcendence, or what Fromm terms necrophilia. As necrophilia is the most malignant form of the anal character, this analysis accounts for the pervasiveness of anal imagery in Othello, including in the speeches of the otherwise feeble Clown. Iago, neither devil nor human, is at once a product of his age and the quintessence of all those, from Caligula to Hitler, for whom madness is a way of life because they seek to transcend through destruction the limits of human existence.}, language = {en} } @article{Rudnytsky, author = {Rudnytsky, Peter L.}, title = {Did Freud Masturbate? The Folly of Elisabeth Roudinesco}, series = {P. Rudnytsky: Formulated Experiences. Hidden Realities and Emergent Meanings from Shakespeare to Fromm, London and New York (Routledge) 2019, pp. 205-214.}, journal = {P. Rudnytsky: Formulated Experiences. Hidden Realities and Emergent Meanings from Shakespeare to Fromm, London and New York (Routledge) 2019, pp. 205-214.}, abstract = {This chapter takes to task Elisabeth Roudinesco's biography, Freud in His Time and Others, for innumerable factual errors and, even worse, for the assumption that she is presenting the objective truth about Freud. Three traditions of Freud biography are delineated: the hagiographic, of which Roudinesco's is the latest example, the Freud-bashing, and the revisionist, which sees Freud as having created something incontestably great but also as having been tragically flawed as a human being. Roudinesco's errors range from the trivial, to the mildly compromising, to the inexcusable and disqualifying. With respect to Jung, Roudinesco is shown to rely on Deirdre Bair's biography, which is itself unreliable, instead of on her own reading of the primary sources. Roudinesco's true colors are displayed above all in her treatment of Freud's sexuality, as when she asserts that he has been >accused< of masturbation, claims that an affair with his sister-in-law >doubtless never happened,< and alleges that Freud had a >horror of adultery.< The all-too-human Freud was very different from the lifeless icon worshiped by Roudinesco.}, language = {en} } @article{Durkin, author = {Durkin, Kieran}, title = {Erich Fromm and Theodor W. Adorno Reconsidered: A Case Study in Intellectual History}, series = {New German Critique 136, Vol. 46, No. 1, February 2019, pp. 103-126.}, journal = {New German Critique 136, Vol. 46, No. 1, February 2019, pp. 103-126.}, language = {en} } @article{Funk, author = {Funk, Rainer}, title = {Genug ist (nicht) genug. Streben nach Entgrenzung und Grenzen der Selbstoptimierung}, series = {Kinder- und Jugendlichen-Psychotherapie. Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Psychoanalyse und Tiefenpsychologie, Frankfurt (Brandes \& Apsel), No. 184, Vol. 50, (No. 4, 2019), pp. 545-559.}, journal = {Kinder- und Jugendlichen-Psychotherapie. Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Psychoanalyse und Tiefenpsychologie, Frankfurt (Brandes \& Apsel), No. 184, Vol. 50, (No. 4, 2019), pp. 545-559.}, abstract = {Ein selbstbestimmtes Leben zu f{\"u}hren, das sich von keinen {\"a}ußeren und inneren Vorgaben einschr{\"a}nken l{\"a}sst, gleichzeitig aber hohe Anspr{\"u}che an Selbstoptimierung und Selbstverwirklichung zu realisieren versucht, zeichnet vermehrt das Leben von vor allem jungen Menschen aus, die therapeutische Hilfe suchen. Was bringt sie dazu, ihr Leben so einzurichten, dass sie sich mit Grenzen und Selbstbegrenzungen so schwer tun und sich nicht mit weniger begn{\"u}gen k{\"o}nnen? Der folgende Beitrag fragt anhand der Psychoanalytischen Sozialpsychologie Erich Fromms nach den Ursachen f{\"u}r die Entwicklung eines neuen Sozialcharakters, der sich die digitale Technik und die elektronischen Medien zunutze macht, um selbstbestimmt, ungebunden und ohne R{\"u}cksicht auf Vorgaben und Maßgaben Wirklichkeit neu, anders und besser zu 'schaffen und dabei vor der eigenen Pers{\"o}nlichkeit nicht Halt macht. Der Fokus der Ausf{\"u}hrungen liegt dabei nicht auf den sich daraus ergebenden klinischen Fragen, sondern auf den pathogenen Auswirkungen dieser Sozialcharakterbildung in den Psychen der Vielen. Die Frage der Uners{\"a}ttlichkeit - des Nicht- genug-bekommen-K{\"o}nnens — ist so alt wie die Menschheit. Sie wurde traditionell vor allem unter dem Begriff der Gier er{\"o}rtert, und zwar einer Gier, bei der man trotz Befriedigung nicht satt wird. Dass man Hunger hat und deshalb eine Gier sp{\"u}rt, ist etwas sehr Nat{\"u}rliches; dass man die Gier befriedigt und sich dennoch uners{\"a}ttlich erlebt, verweist auf eine charakterologische Gier und bedarf einer psychologischen Erkl{\"a}rung.}, language = {de} } @article{Funk, author = {Funk, Rainer}, title = {Liebe zum Leben - trotz allem! Zur Aktualit{\"a}t der Biophilie nach Erich Fromm}, series = {R. Daniel, J. Haberer, C. Neuen (Eds.), Lust auf Zukunft trotz Sorge und Zweifel, Ostfildern (Patmos) 2019, pp. 92-111.}, journal = {R. Daniel, J. Haberer, C. Neuen (Eds.), Lust auf Zukunft trotz Sorge und Zweifel, Ostfildern (Patmos) 2019, pp. 92-111.}, abstract = {Ankn{\"u}pfend an das Tagungsthema >Lust auf Zukunft trotz Sorge und Zweifel< wird versucht, von der Sozial-Psychoanalyse Erich Fromms her die Lust auf Zukunft mit Fromms Konzept der Biophilie zu begr{\"u}nden. Dabei wird die Lust auf Zukunft psychologisch als die dem menschlichen Leben inh{\"a}rente prim{\"a}re Tendenz begriffen, die konstruktiven Lebensm{\"o}glichkeiten zur Entfaltung zu bringen. Diese prim{\"a}re Tendenz kann aber durch psychische Anpassungsleistungen an bestimmte wirtschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Erfordernisse geschw{\"a}cht werden. Dies wird an den von Fromm analysierten Sozial-Charakterorientierungen sowie an dem vom Autor beschriebenen ich-orientierten Charakter verdeutlicht.}, language = {de} } @article{Funk, author = {Funk, Rainer}, title = {Entgrenzung als mentale Neukonstruktion der Pers{\"o}nlichkeit}, series = {Faust Jahrbuch 5 (2014-2016). Goethes Faust als Protagonist der Entgrenzung - Befunde und Analysen, ed. by Marco Lehmann-Waffwenschmidt, Bielefeld (Aisthesis Verlag), 2019, pp. 99-114.}, journal = {Faust Jahrbuch 5 (2014-2016). Goethes Faust als Protagonist der Entgrenzung - Befunde und Analysen, ed. by Marco Lehmann-Waffwenschmidt, Bielefeld (Aisthesis Verlag), 2019, pp. 99-114.}, language = {de} } @article{Funk, author = {Funk, Rainer}, title = {Das medial Ich. Zur psychischen Neukonstruktion des Menschen}, series = {Fokus Beratung, Berlin (EKFuL), No. 34 (Mai 2019), pp. 72-81.}, journal = {Fokus Beratung, Berlin (EKFuL), No. 34 (Mai 2019), pp. 72-81.}, language = {de} }