TY - JOUR A1 - Zepf, Siegfried T1 - Metaphors in psychoanalytic theory – Do we need them? JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 3, 2024), pp. 163-173. N2 - The author questions Wallerstein’s conviction that psychoanalytic concepts are >scientific metaphors.< If one were to adopt his view, psychoanalysis would fall into line with Lakoff and Johnson′s thesis that the conceptual system of our thoughts and actions is basically metaphorically structured. The author rejects both their views by demonstrating how the system inherent in our conceptual structure works, and disproving Lakoff and Johnson’s thesis as an assertion. In his view, if psychoanalytic concepts are understood as metaphors without defining their target domains, they lose their cognitive function and allow general metaphors to be understood in a whole variety of ways. The author suspects that this metaphorization of psychoanalytic concepts serves to suggest that psychoanalysis has a unified theory which would guarantee the community’s scientific unity, despite the theoretical and therapeutic pluralism that currently prevails. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Waska, Robert T1 - Interpreting with a Modern Kleinian view: Clinical examples of talk therapy and what is said JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 4, 2024), pp. 232-240. N2 - Case material, disguised for confidentiality, is used to show the way interpretations are made from the Modern Kleinian therapy approach and how these interpretations evolve during the course of a session and throughout treatment. Issues of focus on defense and/or internal phantasy conflict are discussed and the centrality of projective identification and phantasy are then illustrated. In detailed clinical reports, the patient’s internal object relational struggles are highlighted, explored, and challenged with supportive interpretation. This includes a focus on transference, countertransference, and containment. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Usak, Hale T1 - On female melancholia in migration: Interpretations from Turkish-Muslim culture with a case vignette JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 4, 2024), pp. 255-269. N2 - Today, melancholia is no longer used as a separate clinical picture in psychotherapeutic diagnostics. Instead, the symptoms are subsumed under major depression or dysthymia and understood as a disease concept. In both Freud's interpretation and in the artistic, Islamic, poetic, and medical-historical approaches in Turkish culture, melancholia is understood in a richer way than just in terms of a >disease-like disorder.< This article aims to emphasize the broader understanding of melancholia within the Turkish-Islamic context and illuminate intersections with psychoanalysis. Since the Islamic faith occupies an important place in the treatment and popular understanding of mental disorders both historically and to the present day, religious and mystical aspects related to melancholia are also considered in this article. A case vignette of a melancholic migrant woman with Turkish roots is used to trace the psychodynamic movements in her treatment. In order to follow this patient’s psychoanalytic process, the theoretical explanations in the first part of the article provide the sensibilization for a deeper understanding of the cultural and religious aspects important to the inner dynamics of this woman. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Spiers, Robbie T1 - Love, Actually? Theodor Adorno, Erich Fromm, and the Possibility of Love in Capitalist Modernity JF - New German Critique, Vol. 51 (No. 3, 2024), pp. 45-68. [Online ISSN 1558-1462] [doi.org/10.17863/CAM.106983] N2 - Love is not regularly associated with the Frankfurt School. Theodor Adorno and Erich Fromm are not regularly associated with each other. Yet, when we bring these Critical Theorists’ works together, a rich discussion of love emerges. Love is viewed by both as a dialectical force, bringing two subjects into union while also allowing them to cultivate their individual selves. Fromm and Adorno operate within the same Marxist philosophical tradition, meaning that they share concerns about the increasing commodification of love and the disappearance of genuine, spontaneous relationships between people. The similarities are not endless, however, and important differences between them remain: Fromm, with his optimism and his concern for existential issues, maintains a belief in revolutionary political change and high spiritual ideals that the materialist pessimist Adorno resists as comfortable illusions. Through this philosophical encounter, two faces of Critical Theory emerge, one oriented toward an analysis of the present and the other turned toward hopes for the future. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Spiegel, Jasmin T1 - >About false Jews<: Transgenerational posttraumatic identity confusions in Germany JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 3, 2024), pp. 184-192. N2 - In times of rising group-focused enmity and toxic polarizations between conflicted groups worldwide, a differentiated debate about the transgenerational complexities of German and Jewish posttraumatic entanglements of identity is needed. This article focuses on one specific and limited clinical phenomenon: the >adoption< by a few people in Germany of a Jewish identity that is not present in their own biography. An introduction to the phenomenon from clinical practice is followed by a brief historical and social contextualization, as well as theoretical models of explanation for the adoption of a potentially oppressed minority status. With reference to theories on social trauma and its transgenerational transmission to both victims and perpetrators, the psychoanalytic examination of a single case is used to develop the thesis that posttraumatic Jewish identity confusion and constructions are to be understood not only as an individual variant of >false-self,< but also as a form of transgenerational repercussion of the social trauma of the Shoah. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Smith, David Norman T1 - The Agitator Supplies What the Base Demands: Trumpism Before and After Donald Trump JF - Critical Sociology, Vol. 50 (No. 4-5, 2024), pp. 813-843 [Online ISSN 1569-1632] [doi.org/10.1177/08969205231208921] N2 - The fierce loyalty of Donald Trump’s base has long mystified his critics. For 8 years now, they have expressed puzzlement that his followers support him >despite everything< – despite his incendiary rhetoric, his misogyny, his racial prejudices, and his authoritarianism. In this paper, I argue that, in fact, Trump’s hectic agitation is precisely what his base wants. My reading of the data – including data I gathered with my collaborator, Eric Hanley, in 2016 – is that Trump owes his demagogic success to the fact that he says what his followers want him to say and acts accordingly. Donald Trump, today’s agitator par excellence, supplies what his base demands. Trump, in short, is less an architect of Trumpism than its reflex. However effectively he performs in the public arena, he remains an emissary, personifying a social movement that preceded him and will survive him. And that movement, I will argue, is authoritarian in a very specific sense – driven by a wish for a domineering leader who is loyal to his partisans and hostile to their adversaries. Analytic insight into this phenomenon is drawn, below, from a range of authors, including marketing professionals and critical theorists including Erich Fromm and Theodor W. Adorno. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rodrigues, Flávio T1 - Educator Perception: The Orientations of Social Character and Professional Identity. Paper to be published 2ß24, 14 pp. N2 - Why study teacher perception? To answer this question, let's consider the teaching profession as a perceptual process. Teaching viewed as a way of experiencing the world, a perception in the mold of Merleau-Ponty. But how can we support this claim without placing the teaching professional in a biological or innate role? Between the purely innate and the purely empirical, we propose the ex-ducere, the act of educating – Ex Ducere: Ex = out; Ducere = to lead – as a central trait of teaching praxis. In this way, we point to a possible teaching orientation of character and a probable teaching identity, productive when inclusive and non-productive when exclusive – in both cases, guided by the act of educating. This trait would emerge from the perception of human fragility itself. These ideas come from a set of studies on the need for relationships. Among them are the studies of Shulz & Waldinger on relationships and longevity; Erich Fromm on the need for relationships; and Gottlieb on the evolution of behavior, as well as the studies of Neves, Junior & Murrieta. To confirm the above statement of a type of teaching orientation, this study aims to demonstrate that morphological characteristics, such as human fragility in contact with the environment, forced a type of orientation structure; they caused habits, behaviors, and character orientations to be constituted and developed into sophisticated social instruments. Such devices are refined modes of caring for offspring, increasingly requiring parental involvement over time, which gradually was delegated to a specific type of professional: the educator. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pambuccian, Viktor T1 - Brouwer Vindicated by Neuroscience JF - The Mathematical Intelligence (Springer Nature 2024), Vol. 47, pp. 2-5; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-024-10380-z Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Newman, Leonard S. T1 - Of course people can reject democracy: psychological perspectives JF - Frontiers in Social Psychology, Vol. 2 (2024), pp. 1-6. [Online ISSN 2813-7876] [frontiersin.org/journals/social-psychology/articles/10.3389/frsps.2024.1461701/full] [doi.org/10.3389/FRSPS.2024.1461701] N2 - Concerns have been expressed about a worldwide retreat from liberal democracy and a turn toward more authoritarian forms of government. Along with that concern has come surprise: when the cold war ended, it was widely believed that a new historical era was dawning during which alternatives to Western liberalism would wither away. Influential psychological theories also assume that freedom and autonomy are powerful human needs – needs that are thwarted by dictatorships. However, a number of theoretical perspectives and programs of research in psychology lead to the conclusion that in certain circumstances, turns toward authoritarian forms of government and restrictive societies are not only explicable, but also predictable. Fromm's analysis of why people might want to escape from freedom, Baumeister's work on escape-from-self mechanisms, and Schwartz's review of the literature on choice overload all provide ways of understanding why in turbulent times, members of free countries might intentionally seek out – and perhaps even ecstatically embrace – authoritarian forms of government. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lindebaum, Dirk A1 - Langer, Susanne T1 - On the Psycho-emotional Deficitisation of Workers in the Age of Cognitive Enhancement JF - Organization, Vol. 31 (No. 4, 2024), pp. 703-719. [Online ISSN 1461-7323] [doi.org/10.1177/13505084221145617] N2 - Despite being the subject of public and scholarly debates for some time, the topic of cognitive enhancement remains theoretically under-developed in organisation studies. This is because the ‘dots’ still have to be ‘connected’ between macro-level phenomena (here, the therapeutic ethos and cognitive capitalism), and micro-level phenomena (in this case, cognitive abilities). In this essay, we use Fromm’s notion of social character to theorise dialectally about the interaction between these macro and micro-level phenomena. Doing so enables us to examine how the macro/micro interaction fosters to adoption of cognitive enhancement in the context of work, and what kinds of consequences might emerge from this. We propose the psycho-emotional deficitisation of workers as a central consequence of the aforementioned interaction, and define it as an internalised version of external ideals of what it means to be a productive worker under cognitive capitalism, which over time generates and reinforces the affective experience of being deficient. Our theorising around socially patterned defects of a cognitive kind has crucial ramification for our understanding of technology-mediated affective control at work and how human–technology interactions shape the subjectivities of workers towards greater self-inferiorisation vis-à-vis the perceived superiority of technology. We close by foreshadowing avenues for future research. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Leisinger, Klaus M. T1 - Corporate Responsibility in Difficult Times. Intervention at the 50th Year Congress of the Philosophical Society of Türkiye Ankara, October 3rd, 2024, 11 pp- Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jimenez, Luis T1 - The relevance of Erich Fromm’s social character and Bourdieu’s habitus in psychosocial research on gendered work and community after de-industrialisation JF - Journal of Psychosocial Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 251-265; DOI: 10.1332/14786737Y2024D000000035 N2 - This article draws attention to Erich Fromm’s concept of social character alongside Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of habitus to broaden our understanding of the legacy of neoliberalism within the context of the massive job redundancies taking place in the steel industry in the UK. This includes secondary analysis of my own earlier research on the psychosocial ramifications of the loss of stable work, changing worker-gendered identities, disrupted affect, community engagement and historical memory within a global context of insecure labour (Walkerdine and Jimenez, 2012). Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ihanus, Juhani T1 - Martti Siirala and Gaetano Benedetti – Friends in the dialogical and psychotherapeutic sharing of burdens JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 3, 2024), pp. 152-162. N2 - This article explores the dialogical collaboration and friendship between Martti Siirala and Gaetano Benedetti, particularly in the development of the psychotherapy of schizophrenia and the human psychotherapeutic attitude toward carrying and sharing burdens. Siirala and Benedetti outlined a psychotherapy that considers existential and philosophical dimensions alongside the clinical aspects of illness, without being bound by schools of thought, authorities, or doctrinal systems. The main material in the article is based on documents from the Martti Siirala archive, the most important of which is the German-language correspondence between Siirala and Benedetti after Siirala moved back to Finland from Switzerland at the end of 1957. Benedetti’s activities in Basel are also illuminated by descriptions sent to Siirala by nurse Aino Kärkkäinen of her experiences in Switzerland in the late 1950s. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hoffman, Edward T1 - How Would Alfred Adler View America’s Loneliness Epidemic? Reflections by His Biographer JF - The Journal of Individual Psychology, Vol. 80 (No. 4, Winter 2024), pp. 275-285. N2 - U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy (2023) has declared that America is experiencing an >epidemic< and >health-care crisis< related to loneliness. Although Alfred Adler is not alive to respond to this dismaying situation, his life and writings offer a vital direction for understanding the nature of this epidemic and reacting appropriately. As Adler’s biographer, I focus on four relevant causal factors concerning chronic loneliness among adolescents and young adults today: intrapsychic, familial, pedagogic, and wider societal forces. Relevant interventions are then discussed. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Halton, Eugene T1 - Is God Sustainable? JF - Philosophies, Vol. 9, (No. 4, 2024), p. 93. [Online ISSN 2409-9287] [mdpi.com/2409-9287/9/4/93] [doi.org/10.3390/PHILOSOPHIES9040093] N2 - This essay approaches the >God is dead< theme by offering a new philosophical history addressing what would make belief in divinity, in God, sustainable and unsustainable. I claim that the death of nature and the death of God in the modern era are manifestations of a progressive distancing from a religious philosophy of the Earth that guided human development until the beginnings of civilization. I outline within the space limitations here a new way of looking at the rise of civilization and the modern era by re-evaluating large-scale epochal beliefs and assumptions of progress within a context of sustainable ends and what I have termed sustainable wisdom. From an original evolved outlook I call animate mind, rooted in a religious philosophy of the living Earth, succeeding contractions of anthropocentric mind and machine-centric mind have regressively disconnected from the community of life. This trajectory courses the disconnect from the livingness of things as defining cosmos, to that of machine-centric mind in the modern era, a devolutionary elevation of the feelingless machine, of deadness, of what Erich Fromm described as cultural necrophilia. I propose rebalancing these later contractions of anthropocentric and machine-centric mind with that deeper reality of animate mind, forged as the human evolutionary legacy still present in the human body-mind today. The renewed legacy of animate mind provides a key to what a sustainable God might mean. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gerson, Sam T1 - Affiliation vs. Alienation JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 34 (No. 3, 2024), pp. 280-287. [Online ISSN 1940-9222] [doi.org/10.1080/10481885.2024.2346513] N2 - Contemporary psychoanalytic thinking has been marked by a >social turn< – a shift in emphasis from internal and endogenous process to those that prioritize the social and political context in which psychological life is shaped. In this discussion of Rozmarin’s work, the concept of “belonging” is considered as a bridge between the individual and the community. The entities to which one belongs and the dynamics that underline the choices attendant to belonging are considered as constituents of both identity and unconscious processes. An individual’s unconscious is viewed as nested within the broader historical and social configurations of life and structured by these forces. Reference is made to the work of Erich Fromm and Erik Erikson as aides in understanding the power of the social to shape both identity formation and social affiliation. The dynamics of conflict between affiliation and alienation are considered as a constituent of contemporary movement toward authoritarian political structures. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gazzillo, Francesco A1 - et al., T1 - Notes on some non-psychotic hypochondriacal states JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 4, 2024), pp. 241-254. N2 - The aim of this paper is to propose a psychodynamic hypothesis based on control-mastery theory (CMT) about the self-punishment function of some non-psychotic hypochondriacal states. After a review of several major psychoanalytic hypotheses about hypochondria, we will show the main concepts of CMT, an integrative, relational, cognitive-dynamic theory of mental functioning, psychopathology, and therapeutic process that is the theoretical framework that has helped us understand and treat these states in our patients. We will then describe two clinical cases to show how some hypochondriacal states can be interpreted as self-punishments connected to three main kinds of guilt hypothesized by CMT: survivor guilt, burdening guilt, and separation/disloyalty guilt. Finally, we will discuss the implications of these hypotheses. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Frie, Roger T1 - A call to action: The enduring relevance of Cushman and Fromm JF - Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, Vol. 44 (No. 2, 2024), pp. 119-122. [Online ISSN 2151-3341] [doi.org/10.1037/TEO0000250] N2 - This article examines Phil Cushman’s significance as a hermeneutic psychologist, a relational psychoanalyst, and an activist for progressive social change. Parallels are drawn between Cushman’s […] article and the work of the mid-century social critic and psychoanalyst, Erich Fromm, particularly his book (Fromm, 1941). The author reflects on his own relationship with Cushman and on the enduring relevance of Cushman’s cross-disciplinary scholarship for psychology. [APA PsycNet] Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fernández-Cobián, Esteban T1 - Psychoanalysis, religion and architecture. Fray Gabriel Chávez de la Mora and the monastery of Santa María de la Resurrección [Psicoanálisis, religión y arquitectura. Fray Gabriel Chávez de la Mora y el monasterio de Santa María de la Resurrección] JF - Hispania Sacra, Vol. 76 (No. 154, 2024), pp. 1013. [Online ISSN 1988-4265] [hispaniasacra.revistas.csic.es/index.php/hispaniasacra/article/view/1013/1139] [doi.org/10.3989/hs.2024.1013] N2 - At the end of the sixties, the Mexican monastery of Santa María de la Resurrección, located in Ahuacatitlán, near Cuernavaca (Mexico), caused rivers of ink to flow due to its novel therapies, in which the Benedictine monks underwent group psychoanalytic processes. The commotion that this entailed, motivated that in 1967, the monastic community decided to dissolve, after its prior, the Belgian priest Gregorio Lemercier, was repeatedly admonished by the Vatican authorities. Starting from the dispersed existing documentation, and abundant unpublished material, this article proposes, in the first place, to reconstruct the events that took place in the monastery of Ahuacatitlán. Secondly, to highlight the architectural implications of the process, something that no one has noticed to date. Finally, to underline the role that Fray Gabriel Chávez de la Mora played as architect of the monastery and, especially, of its circular chapel, very novel and controversial for that time. N2 - A finales de los años sesenta, el monasterio mexicano de Santa María de la Resurrección hizo correr ríos de tinta debido a sus novedosas terapias, en las que los monjes benedictinos se sometían a procesos psicoanalíticos grupales. El revuelo que ello supuso, motivó que en 1967, la comunidad monástica decidiera disolverse, después de que su prior, el sacerdote belga Gregorio Lemercier, fuera repetidamente amonestado por las instancias vaticanas. Partiendo de la dispersa documentación existente y de abundante material inédito, este artículo se propone, en primer lugar, reconstruir los hechos acaecidos en el monasterio de Ahuacatitlán. En segundo lugar, poner de manifiesto las implicaciones arquitectónicas que tuvo el proceso, algo en lo que nadie ha reparado hasta la fecha. Y finalmente, subrayar el papel que jugó Fray Gabriel Chávez de la Mora como arquitecto del monasterio y, especialmente, de su capilla circular, muy novedosa y polémica para aquella época. Palabras clave: psicoanálisis; arquitectura religiosa; México; Gregorio Lemercier; fray Gabriel Chávez de la Mora. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ernø, Steffen A1 - Birk, Rasmus T1 - Rethinking Freedom for Contemporary Psychology JF - Culture & Psychology, Vol. 30 (No. 3, 2024), pp. 479-498. [Online ISSN 1461-7056] [doi.org/10.1177/1354067X241226456] N2 - The purpose of this paper is to rethink the topic of freedom for contemporary psychology. Freedom, within psychological research today, is a neglected, even slightly old-fashioned term. In this paper, we explore the practical, normative, and political dimensions of freedom as a psychological concept. We begin by tracing out key understandings of freedom from political theory, before discussing how thinkers such as Skinner, Maslow, Fromm, and May understood the different dimensions of freedom. We then discuss a governmental perspective on freedom, drawn from the work of Nikolas Rose, before finally turning to the sociocultural psychology of L. S. Vygotsky. We contend that freedom is not merely the absence of constraints but a complex interplay between agency, responsibility, and social connections. Our paper argues that the modern emphasis on negative freedom, characterized by reduced interference and obligations, has resulted in a paradoxical situation where individuals feel overwhelmed and seek escape from freedom. By revisiting the insights of Erich Fromm and other scholars, we emphasize the need for positive freedom, which involves voluntary connections with others and active participation in shaping society. We argue that psychology’s mandate should be to facilitate the exploration of alternative avenues that lead to flourishing and self-actualization. Y1 - 2024 ER -