TY - JOUR A1 - Silver, Catherine B. T1 - Fromm’s Socio-Psychoanalytic Conceptualization of the Clinical Encounter in Relation to the Social Third JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 24 / 2020, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 115-134. N2 - Abstract: In this paper, I discuss Fromm’s theories of individual and social change within the therapeutic context. I don’t know of any psychoanalyst who was able to integrate so-ciological thinking with clinical practice and conceptualization the way Fromm did in the early part of the century. On the surface, these two approaches seem incompatible – at least in their methodologies – yet they complemented each other, as Erich Fromm (1929a; 1944a) and Rainer Funk (2018) have demonstrated so clearly. My presentation today is an exercise in microanalysis rather than a broad theoretical discussion about psychic and social change. I want to show how Fromm’s theoretical framework and clinical experience have shaped my own work. First, I explore Fromm’s originality and discuss ways in which he has been personally marginalized and intellectually isolated as a pseudo-psychoanalyst. Then, I examine the overlap of psychoanalytic approaches as they related to the concept of social Third. Finally, I present fragments of a case to show how Fromm’s theoretical and clinical ideas have influenced my own work. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - e24/2020e Y1 - 2020 VL - e24/2020e ER -