TY - JOUR A1 - Csillag, Veronica T1 - The making of a mass murderer: Notes on the novel We need to talk about Kevin JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 1, 2019), pp. 019-024. N2 - The fictional protagonist of the Lionel Shriver novel, >We need to talk about Kevin<, massacred nine classmates, his father and his sister with a bow and arrow. He murdered them just before he turned 16, to avoid being prosecuted as an adult. He spared the life of his mother, a kindred spirit, cold, arrogant, who would recognize the depth of his hatred and nihilism. Kevin's maternal grandfather was born in a concentration camp during the Armenian genocide. His mother, Eva, a tough, independent woman, loathed being pregnant and the process of giving birth. Kevin was a demanding baby and then a cruel child. Eva kept telling her husband that she found Kevin's malignity troubling, but he only wanted to see the charming, vulnerable side of the boy. Was Kevin born a sociopath or did he become one due to his experiences in utero and beyond? In this paper, I elucidate how temperamental features, inadequate parenting, transgenerational trauma, and oppressive gender relations created the perfect storm from which Kevin's personality developed. Finally, I will discuss how Eva and Kevin struggled to repair their relationship after the murders, and consider whether forgiveness and reconciliation are even possible after such a heinous act. Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Conci, Marco A1 - Maniadakis, Grigoris T1 - Introduction - Violence, terror and terrorism today: Psychoanalytic perspectives – Part III JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 1, 2019), pp. 001-002. Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Chen, Xiaoxing A1 - Peng, Xiaodong T1 - On >Emotional Education< – From >Love between Parents and Children< [>情感教育<浅议——从《父母与孩子之间的爱》说起] JF - Middle School Chinese [中学语文], No. 30 (2019), pp. 101-102. N2 - 听过一堂公开课。一位老师讲解弗洛姆的《父母与孩子之间的爱》一文。在讲解完课文内容之后,老师布置了一项活动。关闭门窗,关闭灯光,配着音乐,老师声情并茂地朗诵了一篇歌颂父母之爱的散文。在倾听老师朗读的过程中,确有一些学生感动得热泪盈眶。读完后,老师请学生说说>你想对父母说些什么<,几个同学说完、老师简评之后,老师又播放了一首歌颂母爱的歌曲,在歌声中结束了教学……从老师设计的教学活动 … N2 - Listened to a public class. A teacher explains Fromm's >Love between Parents and Children<. After explaining the text, the teacher arranged an activity. Closing the doors and windows, turning off the lights, and accompanied by music, the teacher recited an essay in praise of his parents' love. While listening to the teacher reading aloud, some students were indeed moved to tears. After reading, the teacher asked the students to say >what do you want to say to your parents?< After a few classmates spoke and the teacher gave a short comment, the teacher played another song chanting mother love, and ended the teaching in the singing ... Teacher-designed teaching activities … Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - De Maria, Fabio T1 - Fromm and Horkheimer. On the fundamentals of critical theory’s anthropology JF - Bajo Palabra, II Epoca, Brasil, No. 21, pp. 59-80. N2 - Erich Fromm was central to the Frankfurt Institute of Social Research under the direction of Max Horkheimer, but the works of each author, while handling at times similar issues, took different paths. The article’s aim is to analyze how Horkheimer’s anthropology, which would be of importance in Dialectic of Enlightenment, was built as the author embodied in his essays elements of Fromm’s social psychology, albeit overcoming some of its limitations, as well as suggesting new potentials of critique. N2 - Erich Fromm fue fundamental para el Instituto de Investigación Social de Frankfurt dirigido por Max Horkheimer, pero las obras de cada autor, mientras que a veces se enfrentaban a problemas similares, siguieron caminos diferentes. El objetivo del artículo es analizar cómo la antropología de Horkheimer, importante en la Dialéctica de la Ilustración, se construyó cuando el autor incorporaba elementos de la psicología social de Fromm, aunque superaba sus limitaciones y sugería nuevos potenciales de crítica. Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Conci, Marco T1 - Ferenczi and Freud – From psychoanalysis as a >professional and personal home< to the creation of a >psychoanalytic home< for the patient1 JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 4, 2019), pp. 193-202. N2 - The author explores the relationship between Sándor Ferenczi and Sigmund Freud in the light of their correspondence. This allows us to see how Freud was able to offer and create for Ferenczi a >professional and personal home< that enabled the latter to find a much more meaningful and creative contact with himself. According to the author, this experience played an important role in Ferenczi’s later readiness to offer to and create with his patients a similar >psychoanalytic home.< As Freud was not able to share such clinical research work with Ferenczi, a conflict developed between them whose nature has occupied psychoanalysts ever since, and whose seeds can be found in the 1246 letters that they exchanged between January 1908 and May 1933. From this point of view, Ferenczi’s Clinical diary (written in 1932 and published only in 1985) can be seen as the continuation of the dialogue they had entertained for so many years, as well as Ferenczi’s attempt not to give up the “professional and personal home” that they had created together. Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gu, Ruoyan T1 - An Analysis of the Humanity and Ethical Alienation of the Small and Medium-sized Citizens in Grass's >The Tin Drum< [《铁皮鼓》中小市民人性及伦理异化探析] [application of Fromm's theories to art] JF - Masterpieces Review [名作欣赏], No. 15 (2019), pp. 127-130. N2 - 《铁皮鼓》以小家庭为单位呈现了小市民社会的缩影,展现了被异化的人性与伦理。小说通过对小市民社会的描绘,映射了同时期病态的德国社会,揭示了纳粹得以滋生壮大的社会根源。本文结合马克思伦理思想及弗洛姆人性异化论,分析《铁皮鼓》中小市民社会畸形的人际关系与生活方式,从而理解作品中深刻的历史反思主题。 N2 - >The Tin Drum< presents a microcosm of small civil society as a small family, showing the alienated humanity and ethics. Through the depiction of the small civil society, the novel maps the morbid German society at the same time, revealing the social roots of the Nazis' growth and growth. This thesis combines Marx's ethical thoughts and Fromm's theory of alienation of humanity to analyze the interpersonal relationship and life style of the social malformation of the small and medium-sized citizens in the >The Tin Drum<, so as to understand the profound historical reflection theme in the works. [Automatic translation] Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Huang, Qiaoyan T1 - On the Alienation of Human Nature in >Dream of Ding Village< [论《丁庄梦》中人性的异化] [application of Fromm's theories to art] JF - Journal of Zhenjiang College [镇江高专学报], Vol. 32, No. 2 (2019), pp. 36-40. N2 - 《丁庄梦》是阎连科的一部探讨人性的力作。在病痛与苦难面前,丁庄人无限膨胀的贪欲、无法控制的情欲、无药可救的愚昧被揭示得淋漓尽致。采用弗洛姆的异化理论解读《丁庄梦》中个体及群体人性的异化,探讨人性异化的成因以及探索人性救赎的途径。 N2 - >Dream of Ding Village< is a masterpiece in which Yan Lianke explores human nature in a poetic language. In the face of illness and suffering, Ding Village people’s infinite expansive greed, uncontrollable lust and hopeless ignorance are vividly exposed. The author intends to use Fromm’s alienation theory to interpret the alienation of human nature of individuals and groups in >Dream of Ding Village<, to explore the causes of alienation of human nature and to explore ways of redemption of human nature. [Automatic translation] Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Huppke, Andrea T1 - IFPS 1960–1985: A new home for international and German psychoanalysis? JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 4, 2019), pp. 236-244. N2 - The International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies (IFPS) was established in 1962. The first 20 years of the Federation were a time when psychoanalysis was divided into so-called liberal and orthodox factions. The (then orthodox) International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) did not admit all psychoanalytic societies, and some societies did not want to join it. In the IFPS, non-IPA-psychoanalysts from Europe, the USA, and South and Middle America came together to discuss their new approaches to psychoanalysis and to find ways to better cope with their patients’ problems. At the beginning an informal organization of autonomous societies, the IFPS persisted for 12 years without a charter. The first three secretary generals came from the German Psychoanalytical Society and greatly influenced the first few years of the IFPS. The IFPS held several international conferences, and new psychoanalytic societies became members. In 1977, after the VIth Forum in Berlin, the IFPS fell into an identity crisis. The conflicts centered on the assumption of responsibility, the authority of the members, and how to understand the aim and sense of the organization. This article deals with the theoretical background of the early IFPS and the development of its self-concept. Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - McLaughlin, Neil T1 - The coming triumph of the psychosocial perspective: lessons from the rise, fall and revival of Erich Fromm JF - Journal of Psychosocial Studies, Vol. 12( No. 1-2, 2019), pp. 9–22, Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Meaders, Nobuko Y. T1 - The Japanese psychology of resignation, akirame, and the writings of Kawabata JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 1, 2019), pp. 047-054. N2 - The concept of resignation carries widely divergent meanings in the cultural contexts of Western and Eastern experiences. Whereas the Western perspective of resignation implies a negative, impoverished state of self-assertion, the Eastern perspective contains wider and more complex meanings, among which is that resignation is a virtue to be cultivated. Using the writings of the Nobel Prize winner in Literature Yasunari Kawabata, akirame, the Eastern, specifically Japanese, concept of resignation, will be examined for its multilayered psychological and cultural meanings. In addition, from Kawabata’s writing and biographical information, I demonstrate how the Western psychoanalytic concept of Oedipal conflict relates to and manifests in the Eastern psychology of resignation, bridging both Eastern and Western cultures to elucidate underlying, universal human conflicts. Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Migliorino, Francesco T1 - In search of the Human: The trauma of modernity and the >instrumental reason< of the persecutors JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 4, 2019), pp. 231-235. N2 - This article takes the clinical notion of trauma as a historiographic criterion for understanding modernity and its mythologies. If the rewriting of the term trauma – at the intersection of psychoanalysis and neurobiology, cultural anthropology and philosophy of the mind – is the hallmark of contemporaneity, it is quite acceptable to see the Shoah as a radical historical and epistemological watershed. Never before had such a highly productive bureaucratic-industrial system been designed and implemented for the devastation of the very idea of humanity. Auschwitz was, in the most radical ways, the liminal space between Human and Inhuman. It lay right at the cutting edge of the abyss that the executioner shares with his victim – the annihilation of humanity. This essay crosses a question that has always characterized the social construction of subjectivity: the perimeter of the Human, and the interrelationships between identity, alterity, and recognition. Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Movahedi, Siamak A1 - Moshtagh, Nahaleh T1 - Persian tales on the couch: Notes on folktales as the mirror of the contemporary cultural struggles with gender and sexuality JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 2, 2019), pp. 115-124. N2 - This paper presents a report on our psychoanalytic investigation of cultural folktales, myths, and fables, in which we study, primarily, the extent to which such narratives lurk behind contemporary representations of men and women. Our aim is to identify the multiple narrative structures that form the core plots and storylines of these tales. Following Roland Barthes’ work on mythologies, we want to decode the tales’ ideological components by deciphering the axiomatic assumptions these tales make about the nature of perceived social reality. This represents an attempt to study a mind that is derived from the text. More specifically, we study narratives whose storylines revolve around the struggle between men and women in order to identify the culture’s core concerns about and preoccupations with the relationship between the sexes. We believe that cultural myths or folktales are a royal road to a nation’s collective conscience, and include gendered patterns of defenses, obsessions, fears, and paranoia. Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mori, Shigeyuki T1 - The Japanese contribution to violence in the world: The kamikaze attacks in World War II JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 1, 2019), pp. 040-046. N2 - The author attempts to understand the kamikaze attacks during World War II as a phenomenon that crossed a border into the systemic use of suicide attacks. The author first presents two historical precursors before World War II: the Seinan (Southwest) War in 1877; and an event in 1932 known as the Three Suicide-Bombing Heroes. To examine the process leading to kamikaze, the author offers two examples: a scene in which a suicide attack was proposed to pilots; and a story of a general, Oenishi, who has been identified as a person responsible for the campaign. In the discussion, the author employs psychoanalytic arguments on chosen trauma and apocalyptic order to see kamikaze as sharing a common psychology with other warfare. He then focuses on the previous debate over the normality of suicide attackers and argues for the importance of finding a role for positive value in the psychological processes. He concludes that kamikaze was realized through multiple mechanisms and ended up crossing the border to unconventional attack. He closes the paper by suggesting we should make efforts to keep the positive feedback in response to suicide attacks under a certain threshold in order to avoid reinforcing the spiral. Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Morgner, Michael A1 - et al., T1 - Codex Morgner. 14 Stationen des Seins – ein Kreuzweg des 20. Jahrhunderts JF - Latenz - Journal für Philosophie und Gesellschaft, Vol. 4: Der künstliche Mensch, Mössingen (Talheimer Verlag) 2010, pp. 215-244. Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Müller, Ingo T1 - Die zwei Krisen der Verfassungsrechtsprechung JF - Latenz - Journal für Philosophie und Gesellschaft, Vol. 4: Der künstliche Mensch, Mössingen (Talheimer Verlag) 2010, pp. 65-80. Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pang, Yaodan T1 - On the Psychological Mechanism of Modern People's Evasion of Freedom—Analysis of Fromm's >Escape from Freedom< [浅谈现代人逃避自由的心理机制—从弗洛姆>逃避自由<入手分析] JF - Modern Communication [现代交际], No. 7 (2019), pp. 230, 229. N2 - 人类对自由的渴望是与生俱来的。古今中外,自由这个话题从来未曾退出过历史舞台。但是现代人由于异化的心理机制,开始选择逃避责任,放弃自由。本文从分析弗洛姆的逃避自由的心理机制入手,浅谈现代人逃避自由的内在心理机制。 N2 - Human desire for freedom is innate. In ancient and modern China and abroad, the topic of freedom has never withdrawn from the historical arena. However, due to the psychological mechanism of alienation, modern people began to choose to evade responsibility and give up freedom. This paper begins with an analysis of Fromm's psychological mechanism of escaping freedom, and discusses the inner psychological mechanism of modern people's escape from freedom. [Automatic translation] Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Peglau, Andreas T1 - Psychoanalyse im Nationalsozialismus. Eine Kurzfassung, Juni 2019. https://andreas-peglau-psychoanalyse.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Andreas-Peglau-Psychoanalyse-im-Nationalsozialismus.-Eine-Kurzfassung-2019.pdf Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Papiasvili, Eva D. T1 - Hate (its vicissitudes and its relations) revisited: Part I – Individual JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 2, 2019), pp. 071-082. N2 - The present paper is an expansion of the author’s discussion of Harold Blum’s seminal presentation >Hate and its vicissitudes< in Prague in 2017. It aims at an elaboration of various aspects of hate and hatred as a complex dynamic intrapsychic and relational affective-cognitive state, alloyed, in different ways, with aggression and love. In this context, various theoretical perspectives concerning the multifaceted relation between hate, love, and sexuality, and hate and destructive aggression, and transformations between them, including the first study of neurobiological correlates of hate, will be raised and explored. Implication on destruction as well as psychic structuring, adaptation and creativity are also considered. The clinical vignettes illustrates the relevance of multiple theoretical conceptualizations in contemporary psychoanalytic practice. Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Papiasvili, Eva D. T1 - Hate (its vicissitudes and its relations) revisited: Part II - Groups and culture JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 2, 2019), pp. 083-094. N2 - Part I of this paper discussed various dynamic aspects of hate in the individual developmental and clinical context. Part II, also an expansion of the author’s discussion of Harold Blum’s presentation on >Hate and its vicissitudes< in Prague in 2017, examines the theme of hate as a multidimensional dynamic group phenomenon. The paper uses various theoretical perspectives to focus on group unconscious processes and the group-specific dynamic of regression leading to an activation of primitive ego operations, unleashing destructive aggression as well as creative mobilization. Also considered are the implications in terms of destruction, adaptation, and creativity, in relation to group unconscious dynamic processes and intergenerationally trasmitted trauma and posttraumatic developments. Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Papiasvili, Eva D. T1 - Continued relevance of Dante Alighieri’s >Comedy< that transformed the soul and the culture JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 29 (No. 1, 2020), pp. 039-049. N2 - The following essay is a modified version of an invited presentation given in Florence, Italy in May 2017. It builds on and extends some of the previous psychoanalytic and multidisciplinary studies of Dante’s >Divine Comedy< as a >psychoanalysis of the Middle Ages< that greatly contributed to the incipient changes of the cultural episteme. The paper will explore and elaborate the continued relevance of Dantian proto-psychoanalytic insight into the complex role of regression, destruction, transgression, and conflict in generating growth, expansion, and creativity, and the ways in which ethics and erotics intertwine in a complex path towards unity, within the context of his multivocal presubjective, intrasubjective, and intersubjective inquiry leading to psychic reorganization. The liminal nature of Dante’s poetry, extending the symbolic and representational range in a way unprecedented in the vernacular literature of his time, vivifying and representing what is traditionally thought of as beyond representation, will also be considered in terms of its relevance to the contemporary psychoanalytic discourse. Y1 - 2019 ER -