@article{Rudnytsky, author = {Rudnytsky, Peter L.}, title = {Freud, Ferenczi, Fromm: The Authoritarian Character as Magic Helper}, series = {P. Rudnytsky: Formulated Experiences. Hidden Realities and Emergent Meanings from Shakespeare to Fromm, London and New York (Routledge) 2019, pp. 104-114.}, journal = {P. Rudnytsky: Formulated Experiences. Hidden Realities and Emergent Meanings from Shakespeare to Fromm, London and New York (Routledge) 2019, pp. 104-114.}, abstract = {This chapter employs Fromm's concept of the >magic helper< to analyze the symbiotic nature of the Freud-Ferenczi relationship. Because both sadists and masochists, according to Fromm, are unable to tolerate genuine freedom, the sadist is dependent on the masochist, no less than the masochist is dependent on the sadist. As Clara Thompson, who was in analysis with both Ferenczi and Fromm, recognized, Ferenczi suffered from his need to be loved and accepted by Freud, and unconsciously resented him for that reason. Fromm's contrast between the >original self< and the >pseudo self< parallels Winnicott's antithesis between the True Self and the False Self, as well as Horney's antinomy between the >real self< and >phony self.< Marcuse's critique of Fromm is based on an adherence to Freud's outmoded drive theory. Whereas Freud plays the role of what Daniel Shaw calls the >traumatizing narcissist< in his relationship with Ferenczi, Ferenczi, until his emancipation in his final years, exhibits the deformations resulting from what Bernard Brandchaft calls >pathological accommodation.<}, 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 = {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 = {Groddeck's Lessons}, series = {P. Rudnytsky: Formulated Experiences. Hidden Realities and Emergent Meanings from Shakespeare to Fromm, London and New York (Routledge) 2019, pp. 152-163.}, journal = {P. Rudnytsky: Formulated Experiences. Hidden Realities and Emergent Meanings from Shakespeare to Fromm, London and New York (Routledge) 2019, pp. 152-163.}, abstract = {This chapter examines both >Groddeck's teaching,< in the sense of the enduing value of his contributions to psychoanalysis, as well as >Groddeck's lessons,< that is, what we can learn from his blind spots. The question of who is a psychoanalyst stands at the center of Groddeck's relationship to Freud, and in accepting Groddeck's assertion that transference and resistance are the >hubs of treatment,< Freud offers his most expansive definition of a psychoanalyst. Groddeck's genius is most fully displayed in The Book of the It, the epistolary form of which casts him at once in the roles of analyst and patient. From Groddeck's biography, it is clear that he was an extremely traumatized individual, as is further attested by his analysis in Letter 25 of his penchant for the number 26,783. But Groddeck does not recognize that he has been traumatized, and his one-sided theory that the It is >responsible for everything< reflects his inability to give due weight to environmental factors. Despite his astonishing candor, Groddeck never discusses his divorce from his first wife or the tragic story of his daughter Barbara, wounds that must have too painful for him to expose to the gaze of the reading public.}, language = {en} } @article{Rudnytsky, author = {Rudnytsky, Peter L.}, title = {Othello and Macbeth: Complementary Borderline Pathologies at the Basic Fault}, series = {P. Rudnytsky: Formulated Experiences. Hidden Realities and Emergent Meanings from Shakespeare to Fromm, London and New York (Routledge) 2019, pp. 167-186.}, journal = {P. Rudnytsky: Formulated Experiences. Hidden Realities and Emergent Meanings from Shakespeare to Fromm, London and New York (Routledge) 2019, pp. 167-186.}, abstract = {This chapter employs Caroline Polmear's contemporary reinterpretation of Michael Balint's concept of the basic fault as a lens through which to read Othello and Macbeth. In Polmear's view, borderline pathology arises due to a traumatic rupture in the primal bond between mother and child, and it can take the form of either ocnophilia (clinging to people) or philobatism (clinging to spaces). It is proposed that Othello and Macbeth are representations of these complementary character-types. Othello cannot tolerate any separation from Desdemona, while Macbeth retreats into schizoid isolation. The handkerchief, the loss of which is tantamount to the loss of Desdemona's love, was received by Othello from his mother at the time of her death, while in Macbeth the rupture of the mother-child bond is figured both in Macduff's having been >untimely ripped< from his mother's womb and by Lady Macbeth's description of killing the baby that was nursing at her breast. Two clinical examples—one of an actual patient, the other of Philip Roth—are offered to illustrate the reciprocal interplay of literature and psychoanalysis. It is argued that the traditional notion of >applied psychoanalysis< should be replaced by what might be called, following Shoshana Felman, >implied psychoanalysis,< or what Fromm has called >literary psychoanalysis.<}, 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{Silver, author = {Silver, Catherine}, title = {Rethinking Erich Fromm's Analysis of Power Relations in Socio-Psychological Research and Through the Social Third in the Clinical Encounter}, series = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 23 / 2019 (Special Edition), Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 230-243.}, volume = {e23/2019t}, journal = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 23 / 2019 (Special Edition), Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 230-243.}, abstract = {This paper explores Fromm's dialectic analysis of power relations as it applies to the dynamics of change at the societal and personal levels. First, the paper discusses the use of empirical research—system justification theory—to test the impact of socio-psychological and structural resistances to change. Second, it looks at the concept of The Social Third to illustrate Fromm's clinical approach around connectedness, subjectivity, narcissism, internalization of normative structures and the centrality of the concept of social character in shaping the dynamics of change.}, language = {en} } @article{Voigt, author = {Voigt, Katrin}, title = {Contested Common Ground and the Question of Emancipatory Value. Applying Fromm's Radical Humanism and Social Narcissism to the Discourse on Refugees and the Nation}, series = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 23 / 2019 (Special Edition), Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 153-160.}, volume = {e23/2019l}, journal = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 23 / 2019 (Special Edition), Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 153-160.}, abstract = {Universality is being deconstructed within contemporary social struggles. Focusing on struggles around the discourse on refugees and the nation, and so-called >welcome culture< in the German context in particular, questions arise regarding the emancipatory potential of emerging narratives of a contested common ground (Hark et al. 2015). This article proposes Erich Fromm's understanding of >radical humanism< (1968a) and its line of argumentation towards >global solidarity< (Wilde 2013) instead of national >group narcissism< (Fromm 1964a) as a normative base to evaluate the emancipatory value of emerging narratives.}, language = {en} } @article{Wulf, author = {Wulf, R{\"u}diger}, title = {Die Realit{\"a}t des Strafvollzugs: Chancen, Grenzen und Gefahren}, series = {Fromm Forum (Deutsche Ausgabe - ISSN 1437-0956), 23 / 2019, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 035-052.}, volume = {d23/2019c}, journal = {Fromm Forum (Deutsche Ausgabe - ISSN 1437-0956), 23 / 2019, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 035-052.}, language = {de} }