TY - JOUR A1 - Silver, Catherine B. A1 - McLaughlin, Neil T1 - Introduction to the Special Issue on Erich Fromm's Legacy JF - The Psychoanalytic Review, Vol. 102 (No. 4, August 2017), pp. 384-388- Y1 - 2017 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - McLaughlin, Neil A1 - Wegenschimmel, Neil T1 - How Erich Fromm Can Help Address the Jordan Peterson Problem in Psychoanalysis JF - Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Vol. 44, No. 1 (2024), pp. 53-70. [Online ISSN 0735-1690] [doi.org/10.1080/07351690.2023.2296367] N2 - 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. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - McLaughlin, Neil A1 - Funk, Rainer T1 - Introduction JF - R. Funk and N. McLaughlin (Eds.), Towards a Human Science. The Relevance of Erich Fromm for Today, Giessen (Psychosozial-Verlag) 2015, pp. 9-29. Y1 - 2015 UR - http://www.psychosozial-verlag.de/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/2535/CATALOGSSID/8c52oh5o77t4cs3r5m2r2722j4 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - McLaughlin, Neil T1 - Review Anderson, Kevin, and Richard Quinney (Eds.): Erich Fromm and Critical Criminology: Beyond the Punitive Society JF - Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences, ISSN 0022-5061, 2002, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 202-203. Y1 - 2002 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - McLaughlin, Neil T1 - When Worlds Collide: Sociology, Disciplinary Nightmares and Fromm’s Revision of Freud JF - The Psychoanalytic Review, Vol. 102 (No. 4, August 2017), pp. 384-388-415-436. Y1 - 2017 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - McLaughlin, Neil T1 - Erich Fromm and Sociology JF - Encyclopedia of Sociology, ed. By George Ritzer, London (Blackwell Publishers) London, 2006, pp. 1804-1808. Y1 - 2006 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - McLaughlin, Neil T1 - Erich Fromm JF - Encyclopedia of European History, New York (Scribners) 2006. Y1 - 2006 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - McLaughlin, Neil T1 - Erich Fromm and Global Public Sociology, Bristol (Bristol University Press) 2023, 296 pp. Y1 - 2023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - McLaughlin, Neil T1 - How Erich Fromm Can Help Address the Jordan Peterson Problem in Psychoanalysis JF - Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 053-070. N2 - 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. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - McLaughlin, Neil T1 - Answering populist attacks on psychosocial ideas: why Fromm matters more than Marcuse JF - Journal of Psychosocial Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. xx; DOI: 10.1332/14786737Y2024D000000032 N2 - 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. Y1 - 2024 ER -