TY - JOUR A1 - Wirth, Hans-Jürgen T1 - From Hiroshima and Chernobyl to Fukushima: What does the >militant< use of nuclear power mean for our mental state, and how about its >peaceful< use? JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Abingdon (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 22 (No. 4, 2013), pp. 217-227. N2 - The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki represent a historical break that can be understood from a social psychological position as a collective trauma of the >generic identity<. The >peaceful use of nuclear power< served as an >integration ideology of the 1950s< and corroborated the worldwide denial of nuclear danger. Not until the ecology and peace movement of the 1970s and 80s did a fundamental criticism of both the peaceful and the military use of nuclear power take shape. These initiatives, which were critical for growth, had a particularly strong, influential, and lasting effect in West Germany as the movements that were critical for expansion received here additional impetus from the confrontation with National Socialism and with the Holocaust's >breach of civilization.< The author described these psychohistorical processes as early as 1986 in an article in an issue of psychosozial on the topic of >Nach Tschernobyl – regiert wieder das Vergessen?< (>After Chernobyl – does oblivion rule again?<). The considerations outlined back then are taken up again under the shadow of Fukushima, and pursued from the social psychological perspective. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wicher, Andrzej T1 - Freedom versus Intolerance: Variations on the Theme of Supernatural Wives and Husbands, in: D. Gabryś-Barker and J. Mydla (Eds.): English Studies at the University of Silesia: Forty Years on, Katowice (University of Silesia Publishing House) Poland 2013, pp. 311-330. N2 - I have chosen, for the jubilee volume, my article >Freedom vs. Intolerance – Variations on the Theme of Supernatural Wives and Husbands<. It appeared in the volume entitled >We are all Indians< Violence – Intolerance – Literature, edited by Wojciech Kalaga and Tadeusz Sławek (Katowice 1990). This was a special time for all of us; today it is called the time of breakthrough, or transformation. The topic of my article, and most other articles contained in this volume, is connected with the problem of freedom and enslavement, which, bearing in mind the atmosphere of that period, was almost inevitable. Thus, the reader will find, in that article of mine, reflections concerning the so called positive and negative freedom, some thoughts about Erich Fromm’s book >The Fear of Freedom<. I used there also an old proverb, quoted in the writings of Sir Isaiah Berlin: >to be free is nothing, to become free is the very heaven<, a proverb that sounded very appropriate in the times when we all in Poland were regaining our lost freedom. The article itself is a heady mixture of threads and motifs taken from classical and modern philosophy, folktales, Biblical traditions and mythology, whereas the typical literary studies, or history of literature, are virtually absent there. This rather unconventional approach is, to some extent, typical of the style of academic discourse characteristic of the English studies as understood and practised in the University of Silesia at that time, that is in the 1980s and 1990s. This style was shaped, among other persons, by the, often indirect, influence of such personalities as Wojciech Kalaga, Tadeusz Sławek, Emanuel Prower, Tadeusz Rachwał, or, last but not least, Ewa Borkowska, who also contributed to the volume in question. Naturally, I am solely responsible for what I wrote in that article, which is a rather faithful reflection of my interests (and perhaps also obsessions) in that very memorable period of time. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Vartzopoulos, Ioannis T1 - Psychic retreat to the body in the face of annihilation anxiety JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Abingdon (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 22 (No. 1, 2013), pp. 43-52. N2 - This paper aims to present the body as a possible psychic retreat in the face of annihilation anxiety. The sensations produced on the body seem to be a preferable place of psychic retreat in the patient's efforts to assuage her tormented intrapsychic reality. In such cases, unconscious phantasies are experienced mostly on the bodily level because of their intensity and primitive nature. Accordingly, self- and object representations tend to reside in the body and are accessible via the body. In this regard, bodily sensations offer a sense of continuity and cohesion, and allow for the further psychic elaboration of the unconscious conflicts. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Stroeken, Harry T1 - The fate of German-Jewish psychoanalyst refugees in the Netherlands: An overview JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Abingdon (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 22 (No. 4, 2013), pp. 203-207. N2 - This article deals with the six German-Jewish psychoanalysts who fled from Nazi Germany to the Netherlands in the 1930s. Watermann and Landauer perished in the German concentration camps. Levy-Suhl survived the German occupation of the Netherlands but died soon after. Reik went on to the USA before World War II. Lampl and Keilson lived and worked in the Netherlands for the rest of their lives. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Stensson, Jan T1 - Review Kakar, S.: >Kultur und Psyche. Psychoanalyse im Dialog mit nicht-westlichen Gesellschaften< JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Abingdon (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 22 (No. 2, 2013), pp. 129f. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sjödin, Christer T1 - The long term perspective JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Abingdon (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 22 (No. 2, 2013), pp. 67-68. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sjödin, Christer T1 - Liquid modernity – a source of shame JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Abingdon (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 22 (No. 3, 2013), pp. 131-132. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Simel, Sanja T1 - Education for a Positive Self-image in a Contemporary School JF - Journal of Education Culture and Society, Vol. 4, No. 2 (2013), pp. 108-115. [Online ISSN 2575-3363] [jecs.pl/index.php/jecs/issue/view/25] N2 - In today’s world characterized by changed systems of values and materialism, pedagogy should emphasize education for a positive self-image, especially in the contemporary school, whose educational goals are freedom, independence and individuality. This theoretical analysis provides a review of research on the importance and relationship of positive self-image with other factors, such as social skills and academic achievement. Simultaneously, the methods and procedures by which teachers can foster a student’s positive self-image are displayed. Although the degree of positive self-thinking is for the most part formed in interaction with other people, it is extremely important to raise students’ awareness about their own internal strengths as well as their possibility of choice. The education of a positive self-image can be considered a part of >positive pedagogy< or >positive education< which focuses on traditional skills and happiness, but also joy – fervor that accompanies being (Fromm, 2004, p. 130) Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Scudder, Timothy James T1 - Personality Types in Relationship Awareness Theory: The Validation of Freud’s Libidinal Types and Explication of Porter’s Motivational Typology, Dissertation Fielding Graduate University, 2013, 135 pp. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Scannell, Paddy T1 - The Pursuit of Happiness – Introduction JF - International Journal of Communication, Vol. 6 (2012), pp. 1262-1269. [Online ISSN 1932-8036] [ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/1629/762] N2 - In 1950, Elihu Katz submitted his MA thesis called >The Happiness Game – A Content Analysis of Radio Fan Mail< at Columbia University. It was supervised by Leo Löwenthal, and drew on recently published work by Paul Lazarsfeld, Robert Merton, and Erich Fromm. The topic for the thesis came from Löwenthal, who, as Katz now recalls, was then preparing to become Director of Research for Voice of America. Somehow, he obtained from CBS, perhaps through Lazarsfeld, several thousand letters sent in to the network during the early months of 1948. He was interested in letters sent by listeners in anticipation of such mail landing on his desk in his new position. The letters were sorted into different bundles and assigned to various graduate students for analysis. It was a happy chance that the bundle assigned to Katz were letters sent in by listeners (overwhelmingly female) in response to a request from a popular radio broadcaster of the day, Ted Malone. Malone asked regular listeners to his daytime show to note whenever they felt happy across the whole of February 1948 (a leap-year) and, at the end of the month, to send him a letter telling of their happiest day. Over two thousand letters were received, and from this, a sample of 236 letters was selected and submitted to a careful content analysis which formed the substance of the thesis. Immediately following this, Katz entered the doctoral program in the Department of Sociology and began to work with Lazarsfeld, a collaboration which culminated in Katz’s work on the Decatur survey material that Lazarsfeld had commissioned in 1943. It became his doctoral thesis and was published as >Personal Influence< (1955), co-authored by Katz and Lazarsfeld – a landmark in American sociological literature. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ryan, Alan T1 - Review Friedman, L. J.: The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love's Prophet: The Art of Being Erich Fromm JF - The New York Review of Book, New York (August 15, 2013), pp. 61-63. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Palmitessa, Constanza T1 - A Case of >Freezing<. A Contribution Toward and Integration of Bowlby’s Attachment Theory and Fromm’s Analytical Social Psychology JF - Academy Forum, Fall 2013, pp. 20-22. Y1 - 2013 N1 - Ex libris Marco Bacciagaluppi ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pacquing, Ian Raymond B. T1 - The Power of Man in Fromm’s Humanistic Ethics JF - Kritike, Vol. 7, pp. 33-49. N2 - Erich Fromm analyzed how man is divided in his sense of true self. This division within forces him to cling to abstract and concrete entities outside of himself and Fromm calls this >transference< which he, after all, borrowed from Freud. This transferring of man’s individuality to outside forces brings temporary relief to his experience of powerlessness and loneliness. The transference makes man acquire a masochistic character wherein he submits himself to outside irrational forces that perpetually dehumanize him. This is the reason why his ethics is a struggle to bring back the power of man within, nursing his potentialities to change himself and transform his world. Ethics, for Fromm, is a form of normativity which leads man into freedom to fully actualize his own sense of self. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Neto, Alfredo Naffah T1 - The imaginative elaboration of body functioning and maternal holding: Winnicott and the formation of the psyche-soma JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Abingdon (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 22 (No. 1, 2013), pp. 60-66. N2 - Since the concept of imaginative elaboration of body functioning, which is essential to Winnicott's idea of psyche-soma, has rarely been investigated up to now, this article sets out to do this and tries to pursue the meaning and articulation of that concept in the corpus of Winnicott's theory. In this way, it contributes to bringing the body to the core of psychoanalytical theory. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Moreno, Maria M. A. A1 - Coelho, Nelson Ernsto T1 - Trauma, memory, and corporeal acts: A dialogue between Freud and Ferenczi JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Abingdon (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 22 (No. 1, 2013), pp. 17-25. N2 - This article probes psychoanalytic theory regarding the repercussions of traumatic experiences in memory function. Both memory and trauma are fundamental to psychoanalysis and lead to the psyche's constitution as well as to its limits. The relationship between trauma and memory, based mainly on an aspect beyond the pleasure principle, points toward a function at the limits of the psychic, something between the body and the psyche, between perception and representation – all of which is responsible for psychic differentiation. Trauma has been associated with death drive dynamics and automatic anxiety, which constantly require a prior link to the establishment of the pleasure principle. When there is no possibility of linking and transcribing an event, its effects are negative, that is, it causes narcissistic damage. Ferenczi considers the object's role to be the determinant as far as an event's traumatic fate is concerned. When the object cannot accommodate the subject's needs or assign some meaning to the traumatic experience, introjection and psychic inscription are interrupted. We suggest that the lack of intersubjective recognition occasions the nonrepresentation and the meaninglessness that emerge as corporeal acts during psychoanalytic treatment. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mikulincer, M. A1 - Shaver, P. R. A1 - Berant, E. T1 - An Attachment Perspective on Therapeutic Processes and Outcomes JF - Journal of Personality, Vol. 81 (No. 6, 2013), pp. 606-616. Y1 - 2013 N1 - Ex libris Marco Bacciagaluppi ER - TY - JOUR A1 - May, Ulrike T1 - Freud's >Beyond the pleasure principle<: The end of psychoanalysis or its new beginning? JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Abingdon (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 22 (No. 4, 2013), pp. 208-216. N2 - Taking Freud's >Beyond the pleasure principle< as a case in point, the author draws attention to how Freud had a tendency to develop different theories simultaneously and to neglect to state how they were related to each other. The theory of traumatic neurosis, which he explains by both the theory of the two egos and the theory of the mental apparatus and the energies at work within it, is cited as an example. Similarly, Freud's definition of the death instinct is also not reconcilable with his previous definition of the instinctual drives. A third example is that of Eros, important parts of whose definition are at variance with Freud's previously formulated definition of the sexual drives. In none of these cases, the author argues, did Freud replace the >old< theory >with the >new< one. He simply retained the old theory and added the new one, without integrating them. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mathew, David T1 - Prison language: A psychoanalytic approach to the language of British young offenders in the twenty-first century JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Abingdon (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 22 (No. 2, 2013), pp. 95-107. N2 - I present and analyse here the phenomenon of a specific language that was spoken within the walls of a maximum security prison in the south-east of England between 2006 and 2007. In doing so, I look at the adolescent who becomes an offender, and how his language is thereby altered, here exploring language in groups and drawing on Freud and Bion, as well as the sociological contributions of Emery, Goffman and Messerschmidt, and the linguistic contribution of Teresa Labov. Examining the social structures that the language enforced, I examine my own role within and outside the prisoners' language, and explore what the prisoners learned from me and my language, and vice versa. I explore the nature of learning a language inside a prison, and examine the need for a homogeneity of language and the social adhesive in the language used. I look at my experience of one-to-one teaching versus group teaching: specifically, the differences in language used by the prisoners in these different scenarios, and try to determine to what extent language comes from outside influences and what to extent it forms and permutates inside. Using actual examples, I argue that despite the exuberance and inventiveness of the language, its usage follows Freud's >“Beyond the pleasure principle,< in that there is an attempt to reduce excitation. Finally, I regard prison language as a psychic retreat, drawing on the work of Steiner, Meltzer, Emanuel, and Leader (among others); and I ask questions not only about the prisoners, but also about the function of learning inside a prison itself, while regarding the language used as a depressive defence. No identifying reference to any single prisoner, or any specific crime, has been included in these pages. The people and the place that are alluded to throughout have been rendered anonymous. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Martens, William H. J. T1 - Complex dynamics of forgiveness: Psychological, interpersonal, and psychotherapeutic implications JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Abingdon (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 22 (No. 2, 2013), pp. 82-94. N2 - The distinctive correlates of forgiveness are studied and analyzed in this paper. It is concluded that superficial and hasty forms of forgiveness might have a harmful impact on self-respect, self-concepts, self-complexity, and authenticity. Even deep forgiveness might not completely free the individual from negative side-effects, and there is some doubt whether complete forgiveness is possible. The paper also examines what place forgiveness should have in therapeutic settings and how it could be practiced in an accurate and safe manner. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Marcus, Gill T1 - Employment and the economics of job creation JF - The 26th Annual Labour Law Conference, South African Reserve Bank, Pretoria, 31 July 2013, pp. 1-8. [bis.org/review/r130802c.pdf] Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Luderitz Hoefel, Luiza Olga T1 - Vicissitudes of psychic pain as a structuring matrix for mental growth JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Abingdon (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 22 (No. 2, 2013), pp. 108-118. N2 - The intention of the author is to further the knowledge on pain, based on a review of the concept of psychic pain as found in Freud, Klein, Bion, and French authors, with the objective of clarifying as far as possible the nature and vicissitudes of pain. After this review, the author describes a case in which she proposes that psychic pain is made up of three essential elements: the first is the overflowing of great quantities that cannot be contained; the second is an intense and immediate defense to protect the psychic apparatus from destruction; and the third is the >return of the foreclosed.< At the end of the paper, the author makes her final, subjective considerations. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Loiacono, Anna Maria T1 - Feelings of the therapist and the obligations of countertransference JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Abingdon (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 22 (No. 1, 2013), pp. 31-34. N2 - The author discusses countertransference in relation to the impact of training institutions on the therapist as a person. The author claims that therapist's feelings and experiences determine the diagnosis of the personality. It is neither the behavior nor the psychopathological phenomena, which have a diagnostic value, but how the relationship is experienced in terms of the therapist's feelings. The author speaks about the problems connected to of “as if” personalities as a starting point. This concept originated with the psychopathological studies of Helene Deutsch, who associated it with schizophrenia. Later, Paul Roazen transported the concept to the social dimension of politics and to the personality of politicians. In this article, the author treats the “as if” personalities as a concept of unification, in contrast to current attempts to fragment diagnostic personality disorders, as in many psychoanalytic concepts in relation to the medicalization of psychoanalysis. Some clinical vignettes are briefly presented in order to sharpen this focus. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lake, Robert A1 - Dagostino, Vicki T1 - Converging Self - Other Awareness: Erich Fromm and Paulo Freire on Transcending the Fear of Freedom JF - R. Lake, T. M. Kress (Eds.), Paulo Freire's Intellectual Roots: Toward Historicity in Praxis, New York (Bloomington) 2013, pp. 101-126. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Kyriazis, Dimitris A1 - Soumaki, Jeny A1 - Vaslamatzis, Vaslamatzis T1 - The Intrapsychic and the Intersubjective in Contemporary Psychoanalysis T2 - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Abingdon (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 22 (No. 1, 2013), pp. 1-4. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Klautau, Perla A1 - Coelho, Nelson T1 - On psychic reality and neutrality: Empathy and the work of construction in countertransference JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Abingdon (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 22 (No. 3, 2013), pp. 142-148. N2 - The clinical challenges faced in encountering patients who do not fit the standard treatment of Oedipus conflicts clearly show the limitations of the interpretative method, thus making indispensable the study of clinical concepts and techniques as a way to broaden the psychoanalytic horizons. In order to analyse the different psychopathological problems resistant to traditional clinical approaches, it is necessary to reorganise the technique on the basis of a better understanding of the ways in which subjectivity is rooted in early psychic constitution. In this way, empathy becomes important as a clinical tool. The use of empathy must be understood as a decisive factor in handling clinical cases and situations in which the treatment encounters obstacles that restrict the power of the analyst's verbal interventions.In this case, can we say that the use of empathy interferes directly with and changes the position of the concept of psychic reality? Moreover, as we use empathy, can we also say that the concept of neutrality is transformed, without being abandoned? The intention of this paper is to discuss these questions using clinical material taken from the analysis of borderline clinical cases and situations. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kerr, Keith T1 - Freedom with Chinese Characteristics JF - Societies Without Borders, Vol. 8, No. 3 (2013), pp.: 384-390. [Online ISSN 1872-1915] [scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/swb/vol8/iss3/4] N2 - The following >note from the field< is based off of first-hand observations and experiences had while living and working as an affiliated professor at a Chinese university. Noting the well-known political restrictions existing in China, the piece argues that against dominant Western narratives depicting a lack of freedom within China, there ostensibly appear spaces offering levels of emotional and interactional freedoms greater than what one can experience in the West. This argument is framed within the thought of Western intellectuals such as David Riesman, Erich Fromm, C. Wright Mills and Stjepan Mestrovic, and is advanced by considering the vast historical and cultural changes in recent Chinese history that have created an anomic condition in regards to newly emerging spaces made possible by vast wealth acquisition in the last several decades. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Joannidis, Christo T1 - Homecoming JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Abingdon (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 22 (No. 3, 2013), pp. 133-141. N2 - Philosophical and literary perspectives are combined with psychoanalytic ones in an attempt to provide a comprehensive conceptualization of the theme of homecoming. The concepts of home and homecoming are presented as symbolic representations of fundamental psychical functions, and their vicissitudes as subjective manifestations of basic psychic organizations. The hypothesis is put forward that the ability, or lack thereof, to work through the process of mourning of a lost object colors the evolution and outcome of any reckoning with such a notion and what it stands for. Literary sources are used to supplement and explicate psychoanalytic understandings regarding how the concept of homecoming is being made use of, within unconscious dynamics observed in a number of analytic cases. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Joannidis, Christo T1 - Madness: Terror and necessity – thoughts on Winnicott JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Abingdon (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 22 (No. 1, 2013), pp. 53-59. N2 - This paper addresses the notion of irrationality and madness, as they are understood within the psychoanalytic framework. By highlighting their similarities and differences, as well as by emphasizing the crucial defensive position that manifest psychosis holds in the midst of all this, an attempt is being made to delineate the links between the conjectured earliest interaction that the infant has with its environment and the burgeoning conscious rational mind. Winnicott's conceptualizations around fear of breakdown, disintegration, the environment-mother, and therapeutic regression are utilized to form a bridge between the theoretical understanding of madness and the clinical applications of this understanding, as illustrated by a clinical vignette. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jimenez, Luis T1 - Social Catastrophe and Social Trauma Amongst Unemployed Working Class Men in a Post-Industrial Community JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 17 / 2013, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 29-34. N2 - This paper explores psychosocially young unemployed men’s resistance to work they describe as ‘embarrassing’ and ‘feminine’. The context is the closure of a steelworks in a town in the South Wales valleys, in which their resistance is mediated by father–son relationships that dictate what counts as proper manly work. In this study, young men, as well as their mothers and (where possible) their fathers, were interviewed. The interviews reveal a community suffering the effects of intergenerational trauma and riven with complex feelings about masculinity and femininity. These feelings are projected onto the young men, who feel bullied and shamed by their families, peers and others in the community because they are unable to find gender-appropriate work. The implications of these findings for un-derstanding youth male unemployment are considered. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - e17/2013d Y1 - 2013 VL - e17/2013d ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jensen, Walter A. T1 - Breaking the Iron Cage: Max Weber, Erich Fromm, and the Sociology of Religion JF - Islamic Perspective, Center for Sociological Studies, Vol. 9 (2013), pp. 53-65. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - J., Tolchin T1 - Engaging resistant adolescent patients in psychotherapy. SIPRe, 14.09.13. Typescript, 8 pp. Y1 - 2013 N1 - Ex libris Marco Bacciagaluppi ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Honneth, Axel T1 - Takeshi Deguchi's Democracy and Critical Theory in Post-War Japanese Sociology JF - Elliott, A., Katagiri, M., Swai, A. (Eds.), Japanese Social Theory. From Individualization to globalization in Japan today, Abingdon (Routledge) 2013, pp. 36-39. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Holowchak, M. Andrew T1 - Freud on philosophy and philosophers: Patching the gaps in the universe with nightcaps and dressing-gown tatters JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Abingdon (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 22 (No. 3, 2013), pp. 149-160. N2 - Freud's attitude toward philosophers and philosophy in published works was consistently hostile. This paper aims to show that Freud's persistently hostile attitude toward philosophers and philosophy was the result of ambivalence. On the one hand, it is explicable by his reaction to the resistance on the part of philosophers toward his innovative notion of “unconscious” and by his embrace of Comtean progressivism. On the other hand, it is explicable by his proclivities toward speculative thought, without the net of empirical data, and by his often unacknowledged borrowings from philosophers, old and new. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gonzales-Torres, Miguel Angel T1 - Psychoanalysis and neuroscience. Friends or enemies? JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Abingdon (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 22 (No. 1, 2013), pp. 35-42. N2 - Neurosciences have experienced tremendous development in the last decades. Research on genetics, structural and functional neuroimaging advance at a frantic pace. At the same time, psychoanalysis as a whole has been in decline, reflected in a reduced influence on culture, academia and mental health. However, there are some optimistic signals pointing to a slow but steady recovery. Three factors among others have contributed to this changing situation: interest in personality disorders, attachment theory and links to neuroscience. The approach to neuroscience has been especially contested among us, and some colleagues distrust these advances and take refuge in more familiar approaches to clinical work and research. There are also colleagues who maintain a naive view of neuroscience, expecting confirmations it can never provide. Some interesting ideas in psychoanalysis today come from projects involving neuroscience – or at least taking advantage of a research methodology more usually applied to natural sciences, and overcoming the methodological problems often found in traditional psychoanalytical papers. This rediscovery of nature and science in psychoanalysis should be considered not as a deviation from our core field, but rather as a return to the attitude of discovery and risk-taking our discipline once showed, and lost. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gojman de Millán, Sonia A1 - Millán, Salvador A1 - et al., T1 - Care Giving and Social Character. Towards a Systematization of the Clinical Assessment of Social Character Traits and Their Relation to Mothers’ Care Giving Quality in Urban/Rural Mexican Samples JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 17 / 2013, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 35-46. N2 - The theory of social character developed by Erich Fromm asserts that the significance of experience is intimately linked to the material conditions under which persons, located in a specific economic system, live. The shared character traits thus correspond to the social role that these persons play. In the case of women, existing literature does not focus on their function as reproducers of the work force within the family, although this is a generalized function and additional to out-of-home work. This function has a transcendent importance to the development and emotional health of children, as has been established in longitudinal research of attachment theory. This study explores Mexican mothers’ shared character traits, a systematized appraisal of their attitudes towards their lives and their children, their states of mind, and the quality of care they provide as well as their relationship to attachment patterns of their infants; some come from urban Middle, Middle-upper and Upper-class families and others from Poor in-digenous peasant families. The fundamental focus is on the woman’s participation inside the family, although it does not exclude the possibility that some of these mothers handle not only the care giving and housework but also work outside of the home (the "double shift”). It concludes that the daily material conditions of existence are closely related to shared character traits and that these are in turn related to patterns of attachment in their infants, their sensitivity in the treatment of their babies, and the results of their Adult Attachment Interviews. Women have been the sup-port and pillar of subsistence for urban populations as well as the most poor and disadvan-taged communities. This role played by women is as widespread as undocumented in litera-ture. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - e17/2013e Y1 - 2013 VL - e17/2013e ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Funk, Rainer T1 - Erich Fromm and the Intersubjective Tradition JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Abingdon (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 22 (No. 1, 2013), pp. 5-9. [Cf. Funk_R_2011d] N2 - Erich Fromm was not only one of the founders of IFPS in the 1960s, but also one of the forerunners of the intersubjective tradition in psychoanalysis. Trained at the Berlin Institute, he started in the 1930s, after emigrating to the USA, to reformulate psychoanalytic theory by focusing on man’s need to be related to reality, to others, and to him- or herself. Similarly to Sullivan, Fromm looked at man primarily as a social being. But in contrast to Sullivan, Fromm stressed much more man’s being molded by societal requirements and by an intersubjectivity that is determined by strivings originating in the structure of his social character. Because of Fromm’s ‘‘societal’’ orientation, his approach to psychoanalysis is still of relevance to understanding how the intersubjective and intrapsychic are interwoven in each individual. Beyond that, his approach enables insights into what is going on psychically in society and how these changes can influence the individual’s welfare or suffering. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Funk, Rainer T1 - The Striving for Unboundedness and Its Impact on Psychoanalytic Treatment JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 17 / 2013, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 22-28. N2 - Particularly due to technical innovations, we are witnessing an unbounding of reality that increasingly is reflected in an inner striving to get rid of the limitations and boundaries of our own personality by reconstructing it anew. This pursuit of de-limitation, dissolution and blurring of boundaries is seen as a central character trait of the Ego-oriented social character. Such a fabrication of a limitless per-sonality doubtless results in a weakening of such psychic abilities as experiencing one’s self as a consistent and ambiguous entity, being emotionally attached to oneself and to others, feeling one’s own strivings, affects and emotions, and being guided by one’s internalized norms and values. Lastly, the impact of this character formation is discussed in regard to clinical and therapeutic issues. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - e17/2013c Y1 - 2013 VL - e17/2013c ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Funk, Rainer T1 - Digital Erich Fromm Document Center JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 17 / 2013, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp 57-60. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - e17/2013h Y1 - 2013 VL - e17/2013h ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Frank-Rieser, Edith T1 - Igor A. Caruso and the intersubjective tradition: On >symbolisation< as the link between the intrapsychic and intersubjective dynamic JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Abingdon (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 22 (No. 1, 2013), pp. 26-30. N2 - Igor A. Caruso (1914–1981), one of the founders of the IFPS and the early Vienna Circle of Depth Psychology, began to discuss questions of the interplay between biological, social, and evolutional realities and intrapsychic development in the early 1950s. Caruso understood that Man's specific human ability to transcend his overdetermined biological constitution into a development of conciousness, care, and self-awareness is basic for his need for and lifelong activity related to intersubjective relationships. Sexual and survival drive as a biological basis contain their own transformation as cultural potency within the subject–object relationship. Each act of relationship – to things and living objects – creates a new reality that is a meaningful symbol for both parts of the relationship in their single reality. This new – third – reality gains full effectiveness for both actors as “symbolic realism” and initiates the ongoing development. On this understanding, psychic development is a process of changing interactive creation and effectiveness, following the biological drive dynamic as well as its inherent future transformations by attachment. Symbolisation is therefore the main intrapsychic and intersubjective activity of the development of object- and self-awareness. Caruso emphasises the meaning of symbol and symbolisation as an act of relationship to and within the world, and understood psychoanalytic theories as a changing symbolisation of relationship. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fenichel, Otto T1 - Review Fromm, E.: Escape from Freedom (1941a, English). Psychoanalytic Remarks on Fromm's Book Escape from Freedom = Reprint of Fenichel_O_1944 JF - Psychoanalytic Review, New York, Vol. 100 (2013), pp. 839-860. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fellenor, John T1 - Will the real Oedipus please stand up? Metatheoretical perspectives on Oedipus as a unifying function and psychoanalytic theory development JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Abingdon (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 22 (No. 2, 2013), pp. 119-128. N2 - Is psychoanalysis scientific? Which Oedipus is the >correct< Oedipus? Questions like these have divided psychoanalysis and fueled debates about it since its inception. In this paper, I explore these issues by outlining and adopting an >intertextual< perspective, not to answer such questions but to establish a metatheoretical position that might enable us to step outside of them to consider the broader relationship between theory, myth, literature, and the clinical session. I discuss how concepts such as narcissism and the Oedipal arrangement signify a deeper need for affiliation beyond the content of the myth itself but from within the psychoanalytic field; that they provide a flexible resource but also accrete a historical residue presenting as inertia against a unified psychoanalytic approach. In doing so, the term theory drift is developed to argue that psychoanalytic theory might in part develop through idiosyncratic >etymological< processes that reflect an obligation to retain concepts such as Oedipus and a reluctance to break with existing forms and practices. Finally, I discuss emergence and how it signifies the imponderability of the literary and clinical material with which psychoanalysis works, and look to actor network theory to conceptualize the fluid, intertextual networks within which we exist. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Etchezahar, Edgardo A1 - Brussino, Silvina T1 - Psychological perspectives in the study of authoritarianism JF - Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences, Vol. 5 (No. 3, 2013), pp. 495-521. N2 - Different theoretical perspectives have been developed within the psychology framework for the analysis of the authoritarian phenomenon. They constituted some of the background lines of what would afterwards be considered as the field of Political psychology. The first approach takes place in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century’s, along with group psychology, where authoritarianism is studied as an emergent behavior of crowds. Subsequently, developments in authoritarian personality suggest a change in the analysis axes by studying the phenomenon in an intra-individual way. A third perspective arises with the cognitive approach, represented by the concept of dogmatism, which emphasized the study of beliefs and the way in which individuals defend them. Parallel to this approach, advances in the field of Experimental Psychology on obedience, account for the situation in the authoritarian phenomenon. Later on, the study of authoritarian personality is taken up once more with the concept of right-wing authoritarianism, which is defined as the individual differences in the covariation of three attitudinal clusters (authoritarian submission, authoritarian aggression and conventionalism). Finally, the most recent perspective for the study of the phenomenon suggests rethinking rightwing authoritarianism as an intergroup phenomenon, since its three attitudinal clusters account for a group phenomenon, plus a personality trait. The main objective of this paper is to critically review each of the six perspectives which have approached the study of authoritarianism as psycho-political phenomena, showing its peculiarities as well as its differences so as to finally consider which of those are still acceptable alternatives for the interpretation of this phenomenon. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Durkin, Kieran T1 - The radical humanism of Erich Fromm: A re-appropriation. Dissertation at the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow, Glasgow Typescript May 2013, 216 pp. N2 - This thesis attempts to advance the underappreciated thought of Erich Fromm as both a crucial contribution to twentieth century intellectual history and a potentially pivotal point from which to transcend current theoretical impasses. In particular, I argue that Fromm's radical humanism can participate in the rejuvenation of contemporary social theory, which is still largely constrained by the dual reductionism of positivism and poststructuralism, and that a return to it will encourage renewed theorising of, and empirical engagement with, the connections that obtain between the >psychological< and the >social<, the >essential< and the >constructed<, and the >is< and the >ought<. I try to show that Fromm's qualified essentialism and ethical normativism are sensible, viable, and desirable, and that they, coupled with his analytic social psychology, which is based on his underlying humanism and elaborated through a unique fusion of Marx and Freud, provide the basis for the development of practical strategies to realise humanism in the world. Perhaps above all, I try to show that there is a deceptive complexity and sophistication to Fromm's ideas, which are all too often taken as simple and naive. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Duncan, Christopher T1 - Review of Friedman, L. J.: The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love's Prophet JF - Journal: Not Even Past (The University of Texas at Austin (March 10, 2013) [notevenpast.org/lives-erich-fromm-loves-prophet-2013] Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Doszyń, Marius T1 - Women and men propensities to smoke and drink alcohol JF - Folia Oeconomica Stetinensia, Vol. 13, No. 1 (2013), pp. 108-120. [Online ISSN 1898-0198] [doi.org/10.2478/foli-2013-0004] N2 - In the article problems connected with possibilities of analyzing human behavior in context of propensities were discussed. Main focus was put on differences in propensities with respect to sex, also in context of E. Fromm’s personality theory. Methodological issues related to propensities were presented. Definition of propensity and methods of measuring propensities were also proposed. In empirical example differences in propensity to smoke cigarettes and propensity to drink alcohol with respect to sex in Polish voivodeships in year 2004 were estimated. Also, econometric models explaining that kind of propensities were introduced. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Deguchi, Takeshi T1 - Critical Theory and Its Development In Post-War Japanese Sociology. Pursuing true democracy in rapid capitalist modernization JF - Elliott, A., Katagiri, M., Swai, A. (Eds.), Japanese Social Theory. From Individualization to globalization in Japan today, Abingdon (Routledge) 2013, pp. 40-62. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Decker, Oliver A1 - et al, T1 - Economic Prosperity as >Narcissistic Filling<: A Missing Link Between Political Attitudes and Right-wing Authoritarianism JF - International Journal of Conflict and Violence, Vol. 7, pp. 135-149. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - David-West, Alzo T1 - What would Erich Fromm say about North Korea? A preliminary application of humanist psychoanalysis JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Abingdon (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 22 (No. 3, 2013), pp. 176-187. N2 - This paper considers the possibility of applying the sociologically oriented humanist psychoanalysis of Erich Fromm to the evaluation of the political character of the North Korean state and society, with particular attention given to Fromm's concepts of the matricentric complex and patricentric complex, as well as to his analysis of fascism and Stalinism. The author explains that if humanist psychoanalysis is consistently applied, North Korea can be understood as a transitional postcolonial Stalinist state with a patricentric social order that exploits the matricentric complex for mass control. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cortina, Mauricio T1 - The Greatness and Limitations of Erich Fromm’s Humanism. Typescript, 44 pp. Y1 - 2013 N1 - Ex libris Marco Bacciagaluppi ER - TY - GEN A1 - Conci, Marco A1 - Erhardt, Ingrid T1 - Marco Conci and Ingrid Erhardt interview Horst Kächele T2 - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Abingdon (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 22 (No. 4, 2013), pp. 228-243. Y1 - 2013 ER -