TY - JOUR A1 - Rudnytsky, Peter L. T1 - >I Am Not What I Am<: Iago and Negative Transcendence JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 22 / 2018, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 021-037. N2 - One of the perennial questions in Shakespeare studies concerns what Coleridge called the >motiveless malignity< of Iago. Instead of looking at Iago as an individual, however, I will argue that he is best understood as a representation of the >social character< of early modern bourgeois man. Iago’s denial of spiritual values and his mercenary nature can be understood in this light. Fromm’s theses concerning the interconnections among anal libido, the death instinct, malignant aggression, and necrophilia all find support in Shake-speare’s supreme villain. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - e22/2018b Y1 - 2018 VL - e22/2018b ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gandesha, Samir T1 - >Identifying with the aggressor<: From the authoritarian to neoliberal personality JF - Constellations, John Wiley and Sons, 2018, pp. 1–18. Y1 - 2018 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dillon, James J. T1 - A letter to a new faculty member: How to stay sane in the academy JF - The Humanistic Psychologist, Vol. 46 (2018), No. 2, pp. 147-158. [Online ISSN 1547-3333] [doi.org/10.1037/hum0000085] N2 - This paper presents the text of an imagined oration from a senior faculty member to a newly hired faculty member on the topic of how to stay sane in the academy. It begins by characterizing the basic problem at the heart of the university: students are not learning as much as they should and professors are not teaching them in a way that ensures they do. The problem is one of dysfunction and denial. The university is not able to effectively perform its main function and the involved stakeholders pretend everything is fine. Seen in the light of Fromm’s (1955) criteria of mental health, many aspects of modern university life are quite >insane<. I discuss three specific things to avoid that will protect the faculty member’s sanity: avoid the >unstated compact< between faculty and students, avoid the prospect of a promotion to the administration, and avoid the lure of popularity and politics. I then discuss three affirmative steps to enhance faculty mental health: consider first things, honor the call of truth in the world and your discipline, and regularly recall the deeper purpose of the university. The paper concludes with a candid analysis of why the professoriate’s public prestige has precipitously fallen over the past 40 years. (APA PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved) Y1 - 2018 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dimitrijevic, Aleksandar T1 - A mixed-model for psychoanalytic education JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 27 (No. 2, 2018), pp. 121-125. N2 - If psychoanalysis is to avoid total marginalization, something has to be changed in the way future generations are prepared for working with patients and doing research. Reformation of psychoanalytic education may easily be the crucial issue when it comes to the survival of psychoanalysis. Its current organizational scheme has been criticized for various reasons, and various models of its structure have been proposed. I advocate a model that would combine the best features of the university education (training in clinical skills together with philosophy of science and research methodology) with personal analysis as part of psychoanalytic institutes. Although universities can remedy some of the problems of psychoanalytic institutions, they cannot contain the subjective experience of being analyzed. Y1 - 2018 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zakai, Avihu T1 - A Psychological Inquiry into Totalitarianism: Erich Fromm’s >Escape from Freedom< JF - Society, Vol. 55, 2018, pp. 440–450. N2 - Erich Fromm’s >Escape from Freedom< (1941) charts the growth and decline of freedom and selfawareness in the West from the Middle Ages to modern times, when people sought refuge from insecurity and responsibility in totalitarian movements, such as Nazism and Fascism. In contrast to the thesis that >Escape from Freedom< is evidence of >The Americanization of a European Intellectual,< Fromm wrote it because freedom, or the lack of it, was an acute problem in Nazi Germany, not America. His language and concepts were formed and fused during the crucial ideological and intellectual struggles of a specific, wretched moment in German history, the rise and triumph of Nazism; hence, he waged a Kulturkampf against Nazi barbarism to save Western humanist civilization. Y1 - 2018 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cortina, Mauricio T1 - A Tribute to Giovanni Liotti: gentle soul, first rate thinker, scholar and clinician, manuscript for publication, 2018. N2 - I describe my collaboration with Giovanni over the span of almost 15 years during which time we developed a multimotivational model that built on attachment theory and explored some of its clinical implications. I mention the many ways Giovanni influenced my thinking, and provide a few personal stories about Giovanni that give a sense of his generous, warm and creative nature. Throughout the article I describe how I developed some of the ideas we worked on together to provide a broad evolutionary and developmental outlook on human nature. We had planned to write a book together on this ambitious project, but personal circumstances got in the way. Y1 - 2018 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hamburger, Andreas T1 - After Babel: Teaching psychoanalysis on a former battlefield – experiences in an international research network JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 27 (No. 2, 2018), pp. 104-113. N2 - This article describes a psychoanalyst's personal experience in an international and interdisciplinary social trauma research network. Crises and conflicts are understood as an integral feature of such a collaboration. Using the self-reflective capacity of the psychoanalyst may help to turn them into a new perspective. Crossing disciplinary borders, reconnecting to the field of academic research, might prove to be a rather rewarding step. Y1 - 2018 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Chinaglia Cornoldi, Alessandra A1 - Cornoldi, Adriano T1 - Architecture and psychoanalysis. Nathaniel Kahn and the search for the father JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 27 (No. 4, 2018), pp. 274-282. N2 - This text is intended as a contribution to the study of the profound mutual relations between architecture and psychoanalysis. Architecture creates representations that conceal unconscious forms of thought; psychoanalysis helps to explain the meanings of these representations – forms of construction and forms of the psyche. The multifaceted work of psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas – his thoughts on the relationships between psychoanalysis and architecture, on the vitality of objects, on the creative implications of the Oedipal relationship – serves as a critical and decisive instrument for the authors’ inquiry. The issue of the >vitality of objects< as described by Bollas also concerns – but only in part – the architectural >object.< One modern form of architecture with an inordinate capacity empathy has to be Louis Kahn’s. Kahn’s youngest son , Nathaniel, lost his father when he was still a child and hardly had a chance to get to know him. After becoming an adult and an established film-maker, he managed to recover his father in two ways: by discovering him in his works, with their powerful affective impact; and by drawing from those very works of his father to enhance his own creative process in his filmic art. As it turns out, it is this very process that has allowed for an emblematically positive resolution of the Oedipal relationship. Y1 - 2018 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fuchs, Christian T1 - Authoritarian capitalism, authoritarian movements and authoritarian communication JF - Media, Culture & Society, Vol 40, No. 5 (2018), pp. 779-791. [Online ISSN 1460-3675] [doi.org/10.1177/0163443718772147] N2 - Paolo Gerbaudo’s book >The Mask and the Flag: Populism, Citizenism and Global Protest<, whose approach is reflected in his Crosscurrents piece in the issue of >Media, Culture & Society< at hand, is a response to these societal, political and academic challenges. This Cross Currents comment asks, I ask, the following: Why is it that right-wing authoritarian populism in recent times has become much more popular than left-wing movements? How do right-wing authoritarian movements communicate? Why is it that right-wing political communication strategies seem to garner and result in mass support? The critical theory of authoritarianism advanced by the Frankfurt School and related authors on fascism, Nazism, and the authoritarian personality help us to critically analyse the communication of authoritarianism. In this context, particularly the works by Franz Leopold Neumann, Erich Fromm, Theodor W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Leo Löwenthal, and Willhelm Reich are relevant. Y1 - 2018 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Burston, Daniel T1 - Authority, Tradition and the Postmodern University JF - Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, Vol. 3 (No. 5) 2018, pp. 90-99. N2 - The postmodern university is experiencing a legitimation crisis because of a deepening and corrosive mistrust of all forms of authority; even those that are intended to benefit students by enabling them to >think critically<, or to deepen and improve their knowledge and skills. Some of the problem is rooted in prevailing cultural and economic trends, but others inhere in the nature of postmodernism itself; especially the postmodern claim that truth itself is non-existent or simply unattainable or unavailable, even at the best of times. Unlike earlier generations of critical theorists, who believed that >the truth shall make you free<, postmodern theorists, following Nietzsche, claim that the very idea of truth is moot, if not entirely obsolete. But absent a commitment to a search for truth, the entire structure of the university itself begins to crumble. Y1 - 2018 ER -