TY - JOUR A1 - Cheliotis, Leonidas K. T1 - Narcissism, Humanism, and the Revolutionary Character in Erich Fromm’s Work JF - L. K. Cheliotis (Ed.) Roots, Rites and Sites of Resistance: The Banality of Good, Basingstoke (Palgrave Macmillan) 2010. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cheliotis, Leonidas K. T1 - Neoliberal capitalism and middle-class punitiveness: bringing Erich Fromm’s ‘materialistic psychoanalysis’ to penology JF - Punishment & Society, Sage Publisher, Vol. 15 (No. 3, 2013), pp. 247–273. N2 - Why is it that imprisonment has undergone an explosive growth in the USA and Britain over the last three decades against the background of falling crime rates in both countries? And why has this development met with a significant and escalating degree of support among the public? To the extent that governing elites on either side of the Atlantic have been eliciting public support for their authority by inducing concerns about issues of crime and punishment, what explains the selection of crime as a means to this effect, and in what precise ways do crime and punishment fulfil their hidden political function? Moreover, how do Americans and Britons legitimate their consent to objectively irrational policies and the elites responsible for their formulation? In seeking to advance the study of these questions, the present article rediscovers the method and key findings of Erich Fromm’s ‘materialistic psychoanalysis’, bringing them to bear upon insights produced by political economies of contemporary punishment and related scholarship. Particular attention is paid to the hitherto understudied themes of the political production of middle-class support for punitive penal policies under conditions of neoliberal capitalism, and the crucial role played in this process by the privileged position accorded to violent street crime in the public domain. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cheliotis, Leonidas K. T1 - Violence and Narcissism: A Frommian Perspective on Destructiveness under Authoritarianism JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 16 / 2012, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 27-38. N2 - This article offers a sympathetic appraisal of Erich Fromm’s concept of narcissism as it relates to the emergence, sustenance, and resolution of authoritarian violence. The discussion is first placed within the methodological debate over the analytic operations that are required for an adequate understanding of authoritarian violence, explaining why a psychoanalytic perspective is necessary. The focus then shifts to Fromm’s take on the Freudian concept of narcissism, before proceeding to explore in some depth his account of the symbolic mechanisms and contextual climate that must combine in practice in order for narcissistic energies to be channeled into authoritarianism and violence. Attention in this regard is paid both to the populace and governing elites. The article concludes with a short exposition of Fromm’s notion of benign narcissism, from its specific content to the conditions of its possibility. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - e16/2012d Y1 - 2012 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cheliotis, Leonidas K. T1 - Violence and Narcissism: A Frommian Perspective on Destructiveness under Authoritarianism JF - Canadian Journal of Sociology/Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 36 (No. 4, 2011), pp. 337-360. N2 - This article offers a sympathetic appraisal of Erich Fromm’s concept of narcissism as it relates to the emergence, sustenance, and resolution of authoritarian violence. The discussion is first placed within the methodological debate over the analytic operations that are required for an adequate understanding of authoritarian violence, explaining why a psychoanalytic perspective is necessary. The focus then shifts to Fromm’s take on the Freudian concept of narcissism, before proceeding to explore in some depth his account of the symbolic mechanisms and contextual climate that must combine in practice in order for narcissistic energies to be channeled into authoritarianism and violence. Attention in this regard is paid both to the populace and governing elites. The article concludes with a short exposition of Fromm’s notion of benign narcissism, from its specific content to the conditions of its possibility. N2 - Cet article offre une évaluation bien disposée de la conceptualisation du narcissisme selon Erich Fromm et du rapport de cette notion à l’émergence, la nourriture et la résolution de la violence autoritaire. L’analyse est d’abord située dans le débat méthodologique sur les opérations analytiques requises pour une compréhension adéquate de la violence autoritaire, en expliquant pourquoi une perspective psychanalytique est nécessaire. Le point d’attention puis se déplace à l’approche du Fromm sur le concept Freudien du narcissisme, avant de procéder à explorer en quelque détail son explication des mécanismes symboliques et du climat contextuel qui doivent combiner en réalité afin que les énergies narcissiques soient acheminées au autoritarisme et à la violence. À cet égard, d’attention est donnée à la fois à la populace et aux élites gouvernantes. L’article conclut avec une exposition brève de la notion du narcissisme bénin de Fromm, de son contenu spécifique aux conditions de sa possibilité. Y1 - 2011 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cheliotis, Leonidas K. T1 - For a Freudo-Marxist critique of social domination: Rediscovering Erich Fromm through the mirror of Pierre Bourdieu JF - Journal of Classical Sociology, Vol. 11, pp. 438-461. N2 - This article aims to reflect on the possible contributions of psychoanalysis in relation to severely disturbed patients by means of the presentation of a clinical case. Beginning with the family history, the evolutionary process of the symptoms and identification movements of the patient are analysed. The observation of the transference dynamics is emphasised, showing how the desire of the analyst and his privileged listening will allow the patient some level of possible subjective structure. Y1 - 2011 ER -