TY - JOUR A1 - Harrell, V. T1 - Revisiting Fromm’s Passions as Presaging Contemporary Views of Affect and Dissociation JF - Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 30 (No. 2, 2002), pp. 277-291. N2 - Fromm viewed intrapsychic dynamic processes as having their origin in a generalized organic life force that gets transformed into psychic energy called passions. He is acknowledged as one of the most original, creative writers of the mid-20th century whose fertile mind and humanistic sensibilities synthesized the domains of psychoanalysis, social philosophy, and politics. His unyielding belief that the development of the individual psyche is inseparable from its two-way interaction with a lived relational and cultural context presaged the evolution of the relational perspective in psychoanalysis, and his concept of passions foreshadowed contemporary neuroscientific theories of affect and its role in intrapsychic life and self-identity formation. Damasio’s theory of emotions is reviewed as a specific example of the current revamping of psychoanalytic theory as bottom-up information processing, that is, the integrating and synthesyzing of affective experience and memory (preverbal mentalization) as fueling the creation of a narrative self. Fromm’s discussions of dissociation are linked both to Damasio’s core self experiences and to Bromberg’s conceptualization of psychoanalysis of dissociative experience as a process of >standing in the spaces.< And finally, Fromm’s descriptions of psychoanalysis as an art are linked to Schon’s action-oriented theory of practical knowledge. Y1 - 2002 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Harrell, V. T1 - Erich Fromm’s Productivity: Creativity as Exemplified ny Joyce’s Blooming of Leopold and Molly JF - Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry, Vol. 33 (No. 1, 2005), pp. 149-162. N2 - According to Erich Fromm, the productive character expresses what he called the life force in ways that are, by nature, artistic in quality. His valuing of the vital and the artistic, fueled by this life force in our potential to he human, serves as the cornerstone of his model of psychoanalysis. Gilbert Rose, author of Necessary Illusion: Art as >Witness<, also has identified the parallel between analytic and artistic processes, building on the assumption that the therapeutic alliance and the aesthetic alliance are one and the same. In elaborating this assumption and extending the parallel between Rose and Fromm, I draw the conclusion that the qualities of relationships have an impact on one’s ability to express oneself creatively, to live an artistic life--that is, to live productively. Psychoanalysis is, in practice, a process that is artistic, creative, and recreative in nature. To the degree that authentic expression of emotion-ally charged implicit knowledge of the ineffable (the emotional life that resides deep in the bodymind) results in transformation and healing, the process is artistic in nature. This process is exemplified by examining the life and literary creations of James Joyce, especially Joyce’s characters of Molly and Leopold Bloom in Ulysses. Y1 - 2005 ER -