TY - JOUR A1 - Novak, Alexandra Nicole A1 - Luedemann, Jonas A1 - Andreas, Sylke T1 - When patients probe the analyst: Manifestations of patient testing and its complexity – An in-depth exploration of case examples of extant research JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 32 (No. 1, 2023), pp. 023-039. N2 - Patients probe the analyst with the goal of challenging pathogenic adaptations to early experiences. As the core concept of control mastery theory (CMT), testing is contextualized within psychoanalytic theory. The current work examines 29 articles illustrating therapies performed or analyzed using the CMT approach for the occurrence of testing, which takes place through interaction, self-presentation, narratives, or the use of the setting. The various manifestations of testing and their potential meanings are described. An in-depth analysis of selected testing examples is performed to compare tests within patients and across studies. The results show that patients differ in their testing strategies, shift testing strategy during the process of treatment, combine tests, and test multiple conflictual themes within a single test. Therefore, the importance of applying a case-specific approach, based on a thorough understanding of a patient, becomes evident. Recommendations concerning psychoanalytic technique, including the role of interpretation, as illustrated in case vignettes, are introduced. Y1 - 2023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Solano, Paola A1 - Vargiu, Michele A1 - Zaitseva, Ksenia T1 - Voices from the war: Some notes on the emotional experience of the war in Ukraine told by two Ukrainian psychoanalysts (https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2023.2171117) JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 32 (No. 2, 2023), pp. 070-075. N2 - What is the real experience of war? How does our mind react to the sudden threats and losses of our lives, homes, and beloved objects? What understandings can it offer to make sense of the atrocities it witnesses? What adjustments can we carry out in these circumstances? Two colleagues from Kharkiv, Ukraine, and affiliated to the Ukrainian Psychoanalytic Study Group and the Institute of the Ukrainian Psychoanalytic Study Group help us to shed light on these questions by sharing their personal experience and understandings of the current war that started on February 24, 2022 when the Russian Federation invaded Ukraine. This contribution aims to report their voices and the emotional experience of encountering their stories in order to provide readers with an unsaturated and unmediated contact with at least some aspects of the reality of war. Y1 - 2023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sauer, Stefan A1 - Nicklich, Manuel T1 - Utopian Promises and the Risk of Regression – Erich Fromm and the Future of Work JF - Berlin Journal of Critical Theory, Vol. 7 (No. 2, July, 2023), pp. 79-103. N2 - The discourse around digitalisation has become detached from the lived reality of the world of work. This discourse is dominated by vague, nebulous promises about new models of work on the one hand and dire warnings of a mass replacement of human labour on the other. Drawing on the work of Erich Fromm, we argue that this creates a risk of regression, as people turn to ‘traditional’ authority figures or a fatalistic solutionism that places unconditional faith in technology. We instead ropose an alternative approach rooted in people’s actual experiences that looks for ways that digital technology can be used to support and augment, rather than replace, human labour. Y1 - 2023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Chinoperekweyi, Justine T1 - Transformational Consulting: Shifting from Consultant – Centered Solutions to Client-centered Solutions JF - Management Consulting Journal, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2023), pp. 15-23. [Online ISSN: 2631-987X] [doi.org/10.2478/mcj-2023-0003] N2 - Consulting has evolved significantly over the years. This is in response to the changing operating environment and the emerging needs of organizations. To enrich client-consultant relationships, this article explores the changing philosophical positions around consulting and some of the applied techniques to make consulting an instrument of help in organizations. To enhance understanding of the varying consulting approaches, the article covers consulting approaches from Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Erich Fromm, and Patrick Trottier. The philosophical positions and insights from their work will support the emerging consultant in deepening transformational consulting. Through a review of the literature and reflecting on the author’s consulting practice, the article summarizes approaches to enhance transformational consulting. These approaches advance the humanistic paradigm and as such promotes the co-creation of solutions with the client system. The article positions the Use of Self and Action Research as fundamental to enriching consultants’ productive impact. In addition, the article highlights four strength-based models that enrich the design of client-centered solutions. Y1 - 2023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Maliszewski, Krzysztof T1 - To not nurture a war – education against violence (Girard – Patočka) JF - Studia z Teorii Wychowania, Vol. 14, No. 2 (43) (2023), pp. 357-368. [Online ISSN 2719-4078] [sztw.chat.edu.pl/resources/html/article/details?id=613665] N2 - The author is primarily interested in violence in the form of joining Girard's persecution crowd. Thus, the text concerns violence not in the general sense as the use of force to break resistance, nor symbolic violence in the sense of Pierre Bourdieu, but in the sense of human disposition to retaliate and persecution – in other words, violence is analyzed here in terms similar to what Erich Fromm called malignant aggression – the tendency to destroy and gain unlimited control over other people and the world. In the text, the author radicalizes the question about the pedagogical context of violence, treating the tendency to hasty curricular and organizational changes (which often occur after events of escalating violence in schools), as well as the utilitarian search for effective preventive evidence-based measures, as illusions and part of the problem we face with violence. He recognizes that pedagogical reflection must go much deeper. He seeks knowledge about the sources of violence and the cultural formations that foster it in the works of the French anthropologist René Girard and the Czech philosopher Jan Patočka. The ideas of mimetic rivalry and the 20th century as war can give us insight into the phenomenon of violence and suggest the direction of educational transformation. The author conducts the analysis in several steps. After a critical introduction to the contemporary reaction of education to violence, he first outlines Girard's concept of the mimetic mechanism, then emphasizes three ideas present in it (with references to the nowadays): violence as an anthropological feature embedded in the human condition, unawareness of one's own violence and unanimity of the persecuting crowd. In the end, these three accents become the basis for the postulate of existential reorientation of education, based on Patočka's concept of forces of the day and the night. Y1 - 2023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lijoi, Federico A1 - et al., T1 - Therapy and Conflict. Between Pragmatism and Psychoanalysis. Introduction to the Symposium JF - European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, Vol 15, No. 2 (2023), pp. 1-8. [Online ISSN 2036-4091] [doi.org/10.4000/ejpap.3363] N2 - The history of the relationship between pragmatism and psychoanalysis is both complex and fragmentary. On the pragmatist side, the engagement with Sigmund Freud’s thought – and with the psychoanalytic tradition more generally – tends to be cursory, nonlinear, and at times slightly adversarial. For instance, William James notoriously rejects the unconscious as a concept and develops a different theory of the subconscious. Similarly, Charles S. Peirce frequently refers to the unconscious dimension of the mind, although he does so without referring to psychoanalysis. By contrast, both George Herbert Mead and John Dewey discuss the commonalities and differences between their own perspectives and the psychoanalytic one, but they fall short of doing so in detail. On the psychoanalytic side, the encounters are even more infrequent, with the exception of the pragmatist imprint in Harry Stack Sullivan’s work and the extensive references to William James in Carl Gustav Jung’s work. In some cases, pragmatists have been (wrongfully) accused by psychoanalysts of defending a naive – or at least overly optimistic – picture of the human condition. Y1 - 2023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Landando, Ari T1 - Theory of Love [application of Fromm's theories to art] JF - Celebrating Writers and Writing in our Communities, Vol. 5 (2023), pp. 42-44. [ISSN 2767-2700] [digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/rwc/vol5/iss1/27] N2 - >The Picture of Dorian Gray< by Oscar Wilde is a story full of unhealthy relationships between foolish people. Dorian Gray, a young man in possession of excessive beauty, has a portrait in his attic that ages and displays his sins while he remains young forever. The painter of this portrait, Basil Hallward, is deeply in love with the subject and blind to his flaws. Basil's old friend, Lord Henry Wotton, is fascinated by the young Dorian Gray and what he might become. Dorian in turn falls in love with the young actress, Sibyl Vane, who dreams of running away with him from the life she has found herself trapped in. These four people, as well as other players like Sibyl’s brother James, and Dorian’s estranged friend Alan Campbell, have their lives changed throughout the book by the vastly different perceptions they all have of each other, especially of Dorian Gray. Many of them end up in his life because they want to love him, and be loved by him, but his relationships tend to be influenced by idolatry, vanity, and dishonesty. These are some of the aspects of love that social psychologist Erich Fromm writes about in >Art of Loving<. There are many decisions and developments that can be related to Fromm’s theories throughout the events of >The Picture of Dorian Gray<. These events are set in motion beginning with Dorian and Basil’s first meeting, at a party hosted by a woman named Lady Brandon. Y1 - 2023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Silver, Catherine B. T1 - The Work of Benign Aggression and Negativity Within a Frommian Framework. My Clinical Journey JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 27 / 2023, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 053-082. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - 23 Y1 - 2023 VL - e27/2023c ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Barraycoa Martínez, Javier T1 - The transformation of individualism and loneliness in times of pandemics JF - Scientia et Fides, Vol. 11, No. 1 (2023), pp. 137-195. [Online ISSN 2353-5636] [doi.org/10.12775/SetF.2023.011] N2 - The characterisation of mass society in a society without God, as a mere mimetic, hypnotic and unstable phenomenon is clearly insufficient. For its rise, so cial, psychological and relational changes had to take place, both among people and between people and their environment. Many scholars in recent times who have tried to explain the phenomenon of mass society have undoubtedly linked it to individualism, especially to one of its characteristics that could be considered specifically modern: loneliness. The study entitled >The Spiral of Silence< is well known, in which Noelle-Neumann, taking up Tocqueville’s classic thesis, highlights the tremendous negative force – as a psychosocial agent – of individual behaviour in the face of social forces. As Erich Fromm forcefully points out: >Feeling completely isolated and lonely leads to mental disintegration, just as starvation leads to death<. The phenomenon of a worldwide pandemic has forced a rethinking of the concept of isolation and loneliness, theoretically displaced by virtual and telematic forms of communication. However, mimetic effects and mass behaviours have not disappeared with isolation, but have been transmuted into new psychological, behavioural and cognitive attitudes. Y1 - 2023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fromm, Erich T1 - The Psychological Roots of War and Destruction [originated 1963] JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 27 / 2023, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 007-030. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - 13 Y1 - 2023 VL - e27/2023a ER -