@article{Sjoedin, author = {Sj{\"o}din, Christer}, title = {Reflections on dying patients, hospices, assisted suicide, and euthanasia}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 31 (No. 3, 2022), pp. 132-141.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 31 (No. 3, 2022), pp. 132-141.}, abstract = {My parents' death struggle, my clinical work with dying patients, the euthanasia of Freud, and a fear of dementia form the background to my reflections on dying patients, hospices, assisted suicide, and euthanasia. The change in public opinion has resulted in a displacement from Nazi crimes to the present focus on the right to self-determination. Consequently, a law allowing assisted suicide or euthanasia has been adopted in several locations, such as Oregon in the USA, the Benelux countries, Switzerland, and Canada. The fear of suffering, hopelessness, and inability are strong arguments to allow euthanasia and aided suicide. A compelling case against it is its negative social consequences, the infringement into the private sphere when the sick person and their family must decide if they are willing to accept assisted suicide or euthanasia. Although the >right to death< provides freedom to some, for others it is a forced choice that interferes with the dying process. I conclude by highlighting the palliative model, wherein death is perceived as a part of an individual's life and as a normal process, although this task is hard for the family to contain, especially when the dying person is in pain and agony. Dying is not merely an individual process. It affects the whole family as well as the future generations' views on reciprocity and responsibility.}, language = {en} } @article{Smith, author = {Smith, Jennifer}, title = {Pascual Duarte's Escape from Freedom: A Study of the Authoritarian Personality and the Rise of the Authoritarian State}, series = {Letras Hispanas, Vol. 8, No. 1 (2012), pp. 5-19. [Online ISSN 1548-5633] [worldlang.txst.edu/letrashispanas/previousvolumes/vol8-1.html]}, journal = {Letras Hispanas, Vol. 8, No. 1 (2012), pp. 5-19. [Online ISSN 1548-5633] [worldlang.txst.edu/letrashispanas/previousvolumes/vol8-1.html]}, abstract = {In a 2002 article that appeared in El Pa{\´i}s, the Spanish writer Javier Cercas allies himself with other scholars who have argued that during the time of its publication he Family of Pascual Duarte (1942) by Camilo Jos{\´e} Cela, served as an apologia for Franco's dictatorship. Following the ideas articulated by Erich Fromm in Escape from Freedom (1941) about fascism as a reaction against the effects of individual isolation in the modern era, I relate Cerca's political interpretation of the Family of Pascual Duarte with existential and psychological readings of the novel. I argue that the moral decline of Pascual Duarte is the result of his inability to live up to the existential burden of freedom in the seemingly uncaring, anarchical and meaningless universe associated, from the Nationalist perspective, with the political and social programs of the Second Republic. While Pascual tries to elude this responsibility through various mechanisms of escape, primarily through practices of submission and domination, the lack of any legitimate authority to submit to or of any sphere in which he can legitimately assert his own authority, leads Pascual to unwittingly present his meaningless and immoral life as a case for the reassertion of a dictatorial regime.}, language = {en} } @article{Skalovski, author = {Skalovski, Denko}, title = {Border Situations as Unchanging Human Situations (via Karl Jaspers, Erich Fromm \& Noam Chomsky}, series = {Pannoniana, Vol 5, No. 1 (2021), pp. 163-183. [Online ISSN 2459-7465] [hrcak.srce.hr/en/file/402277]}, journal = {Pannoniana, Vol 5, No. 1 (2021), pp. 163-183. [Online ISSN 2459-7465] [hrcak.srce.hr/en/file/402277]}, abstract = {The first aim of this paper is to raise the interest in the works of three authors, Karl Jaspers, Erich Fromm, and Noam Chomsky. The second intention is to show and prove that despite being different in vocation, they essentially speak of the same social reality, regardless of the fact that they observe and reflect reality from different theoretical/scientific positions/aspects: philosophical, ethical/bioethical, anthropological, sociological, psychological, political, legal, economic, cultural, philological/linguistic, ideological. Despite certain differences, what brings them together spiritually/cognitively are the >diagnoses< of the diseased tissue of (post)modern civil society, as well as the assessments of the phenomenon of social/existential reality of our time. What unites them is the comprehensive humanism and care for the man and man's psychosomatic health and their present and future life, at the time when civilization is on the verge of self-destruction.}, language = {en} } @article{Slosiar, author = {Slosiar, S.}, title = {Odcudzenie a jeho vplyv na sebapremenu človeka}, series = {Studia Sieradzana, No. 3, 2013, pp. 1-12.}, journal = {Studia Sieradzana, No. 3, 2013, pp. 1-12.}, abstract = {Filozofi si čoraz intenz{\´i}vnejšie klad{\´u} ot{\´a}zku: V akom svete žijeme? Ktor{\´y} z nich je n{\´a}m vlastn{\´y} a ktor{\´y} cudz{\´i}? Čo sp{\^o}sobuje odcudzenie a ako ho možno prekonať? Kult rozumu, ktor{\´y} sa zmenil na kult vedy a techniky, v ktorom sa človek namiesto autentick{\´e}ho, neopakovateľn{\´e}ho, slobodn{\´e}ho prejavu stal neosobnou, funkčnou zložkou konformn{\´e}ho spr{\´a}vania dnešnej civiliz{\´a}cie, sp{\^o}sobil, že intenz{\´i}vnejšie prež{\´i}vame pocity ohrozenia a odcudzenia. Preto sa tento probl{\´e}m stal premetom z{\´a}ujmu mnoh{\´y}ch filozofov od Schopenhauera a Nietzscheho, ať po predstaviteľov postmoderny. Každ{\´y} z nich poukazuje na povahu odcudzenia a možnosti jeho prekonania.}, language = {mul} } @article{Śliwerski, author = {Śliwerski, Boguslaw}, title = {The Idea of the Exclusion of Necrophilic Attitudes in Critical Psychology of Erich Fromm}, series = {Interdisciplinary Context of Special Pedagogy, Vol. 28, No. 1 (2020), pp. 7-20.}, journal = {Interdisciplinary Context of Special Pedagogy, Vol. 28, No. 1 (2020), pp. 7-20.}, abstract = {The subject of the analysis is the category of the inclusion as a process that does not only apply to people with special developmental or life needs, but also to social sciences, which as a result of the positivist research paradigm have divided and separated from each other. Meanwhile, human upbringing requires the inclusion of biophilic orientation towards life in all social sciences, whose achievements should be considered and applied to improve educational processes. The Author borrows inspiration from the typology of human attitudes of Erich Fromm, because it makes readers aware of the negative effects of necrophilia in interpersonal relationships. The Author analyses Fromm's approach against the background of selected ideas of Polish pedagogical views.}, language = {en} } @article{Skovdahletal, author = {Skovdahl, Kirsti and et al.,}, title = {Dementia and aggressiveness: video recorded morning care from different care units}, series = {Journal of Clinical Nursing, Vol. 12, No. 6 (2003), pp. 888-898 [Online ISSN 1365-2702] [doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2702.2003.00809.x]}, journal = {Journal of Clinical Nursing, Vol. 12, No. 6 (2003), pp. 888-898 [Online ISSN 1365-2702] [doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2702.2003.00809.x]}, abstract = {The aim of the study was to illuminate, from video recorded sequences, interactions between individuals with dementia and aggressive behaviour and caregivers who reported problems dealing with such behaviour and caregivers who did not. Nine caregivers and two residents participated. The video recordings were later transcribed into text and analysed by using a phenomenological hermeneutic approach, inspired by Ricoeur's philosophy. The main themes that emerged from the analysis were >Being involved and developing a positive interaction< and >Being confined to routines and remaining in negative interaction<. The findings indicated the interactions either to be in a positive or negative spiral. Caregivers who had reported problems dealing with behavioural and psychiatric symptoms in dementia focused on accomplishing the task, where the main focus was on >the goal itself<. In other sequences with caregivers who had been satisfied with their capability the focus was placed on >how< the caregivers could reach their goal. Power was central in the material, in different ways, either as a possible way to handle the situation or as a possible way of defending oneself. Parts of Kitwood's framework and Fromm's theory about power >over< and power >to<, has been used in the comprehensive understanding. Our conclusion is that caregivers should use power 'to' when they have to help persons with dementia and aggressive behaviour, as a part of behavioural and psychiatric symptoms of dementia, for being able to give help in the best possible way. They should also act in a sensitive and reflective manner, with the individual in focus.}, language = {en} } @article{Smith, author = {Smith, R. C.}, title = {The Individual in Capitalistic Society}, series = {Society and Social Pathology. Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice, Cham (Palgrave Macmillan) 2017, pp. 169-248. [Online ISBN 978-3-319-50325-7] [doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50325-7_4]}, journal = {Society and Social Pathology. Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice, Cham (Palgrave Macmillan) 2017, pp. 169-248. [Online ISBN 978-3-319-50325-7] [doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50325-7_4]}, abstract = {This chapter explores a fundamental alternative philosophy of the subject. Drawing inspiration from Adorno's critical theory and from Fromm's social psychology, Smith offers a contemporary, cross-disciplinary study of the subject, including the individual's relation with society and social development. What emerges is a deeply insightful approach to understanding social interaction, developmental psychology and the problem of ego colonization. Enriching arguments laid out in early chapters, Smith employs a methodologically innovative conception of the development of the subject: from its (de)formation and early childhood development to more practical issues such as compassion fatigue, deficits of reason and empathy. Smith shows how negative social conditions foster emotionally overwhelmed individuals - a deeply repressed, closed, traumatized subject. This chapter also covers other important practical issues, such as the problem of economic coercion, pathological reproduction, cycles of domination and violence, and the everyday effects of >needless suffering< on the psyche.}, language = {en} } @article{Smith, author = {Smith, David Norman}, title = {Introduction to Herbert Marcuse, >On the Critique of Sociology<}, series = {Mid-American Review of Sociology, Vol. 16, No. 2 (1992), pp. 1-13. [ISSN 0732913X] [jstor.org/stable/23254542]}, journal = {Mid-American Review of Sociology, Vol. 16, No. 2 (1992), pp. 1-13. [ISSN 0732913X] [jstor.org/stable/23254542]}, abstract = {Critical Theory was born at a dark moment in world history. The Weimar Republic in Germany had given way to National Socialism, fascism reigned in Italy, and the Bolshevik revolution in Russia had begun its descent into the whirlpool of Stalinism. It became clear that >class consciousness< does not spring fully formed from economic crisis, as many Marxists had imagined, and that socialist democracy is far more difficult to achieve than even its enemies had believed. Nowhere was this more apparent than in Germany, wherein 1933 the proudest and strongest labor movement in history fell victim to a grotesquely reactionary regime. Democracy in every form seemed alarmingly fragile, too feeble and embattled to resist the >dictatorship of the corporals< that Max Weber had feared. This was the context in which the renowned >Frankfurt Institute< began its odyssey from traditional to critical theory.}, language = {en} } @article{Storozhenko, author = {Storozhenko, N. V.}, title = {Страх смерти на все времена [The Fear of Death for All Times]}, series = {Филология: научные исследования [Philology: Scientific Researches], No. 2 (2015), pp. 117-128. [ISSN 2454-0749]}, journal = {Филология: научные исследования [Philology: Scientific Researches], No. 2 (2015), pp. 117-128. [ISSN 2454-0749]}, abstract = {Статья автора посвящена рассмотрению феномена смерти в современном мире. В данной статье производится последовательный анализ отношения индивида к феномену смерти на основании классических текстов (Артур Шопенгауэр, Филипп Арьес, Эрих Фромм и т.д.) в совокупности с рядом статей современных авторов. Цель данной работы - выявление факторов современной действительности, которые являются регулятивными в вопросе формирования специфического отношения индивида к феномену смерти и его дальнейшей перспективы. Поскольку данный вопрос носит философско-антропологический характер, анализ данной статьи стремиться сохранить связь с такой опытной составляющей человека как прогрессивные технологии. Результатом работы является обнаружение специфических взаимосвязей феномена смерти с прогрессом и фантазмом, выявление специфики символизма феномена смерти в современном мире, расширение списка модусов иммортализации, а также намечаются перспективы дальнейшего развития феномена. Так как феномен смерти философски предстает одним из экзистенционалов человеческого бытия, то спектр применения наработок статьи оказывается достаточно широким.}, language = {ru} } @article{Suchodolski, author = {Suchodolski, Bogdan}, title = {Umanesimo del rinascimento e umanesimo marxista}, series = {E. Fromm (Ed.), L'Umanesimo socialista, a cura di Erich Fromm, Bari (Daedalo Libri) 1971, pp. .45-55.}, journal = {E. Fromm (Ed.), L'Umanesimo socialista, a cura di Erich Fromm, Bari (Daedalo Libri) 1971, pp. .45-55.}, language = {it} }