TY - JOUR A1 - Bezoari, Michele T1 - The analytic field as bipersonal and multidimensional container (https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2023.2210274) JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 32 (No. 3, 2023), pp. 145-152. N2 - The title of this article encapsulates an approach to the notion of the analytic field where the contributions of the Barangers and Bion converge, opening up new perspectives that the author began to explore together with Antonino Ferro in the late 1980s and early 1990s. While the explicit formulation of a bipersonal field model should be credited to the Barangers, it is perhaps less widely known that the term “field” also features in Bion’s writings, with a meaning that is often generic but occasionally bears more specific connotations: for example, when he assimilates the analytic situation into a multidimensional field. In the light of Bion’s theory of thinking, the unconscious dynamics of the analytic field is determined not only by crossed projective identifications, but also by the dream-work of the couple, resulting from the alpha-function of both subjects. Thus, the Barangers’ concept of bastions can be combined with that of functional aggregates (Bezoari and Ferro), understood as animated holograms allowing a shared representation of the ongoing emotional experiences. Y1 - 2023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Chevalier, Jacques M. T1 - The Courage of Disobedience JF - The Ethics of Courage, Cham (Palgrave Macmillan) 2023, pp. 401-424. [Online ISBN 978-3-031-32743-8] [doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32743-8_19] N2 - Albert Camus, Emmanuel Levinas, Erich Fromm, Paulo Freire, and Mahatma Gandhi take issue, each in their own way, with the individualism and pessimism of Existentialist philosophy. They also question the ideological complacency and oversimplifications of social evolutionism. While these thinkers disagree on the role of God and rational thought in human affairs, they see courage as an important lever for resisting oppressive systems that undermine people’s freedom, their capacity for self-affirmation, their hopes for lasting peace, and their sense of humanity and ethical responsibility. The critical and progressive stance they take on the ravages of modern-day authoritarianism, colonialism, and imperialism is a world away from Hitler’s heinous call for the >courage of aggression< and the horrors that ensued. Y1 - 2023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Previdi, Serena A1 - Buzzi, Anna A1 - Cozza, Mariagiovanna T1 - The digital age and psychoanalysis: New frontiers of the setting and therapeutic challenges (https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2023.2248429) JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 32 (No. 3, 2023), pp. 256-267. N2 - We reflect on the concept of the setting in psychoanalysis, and how it has been radically reconsidered given the impact of the SARS-CoV-19 pandemic on human interactions and moving from face-to-face to online sessions. The rapidity of going from seeking interaction to a fear of possible contagion led some professionals to adopt a sudden change of setting. Although the concept of setting seems to come from the classical Freudian method, Freud never spoke about it explicitly, although it was subsequently developed from his writings. Only in the 1960s and 70s was the setting perceived as the very object of psychoanalytic exploration. Since the psyche in psychoanalysis is conceived as a spatially extended entity, this paper discusses the concepts of space and time (external setting) and the mental state of both the patient and analyst (internal setting). We investigate how these aspects have changed as a result of the use of technology. What changes have taken place at the perceptual level in the patient and analyst? What differences are there with respect to the presence/absence of the other’s body? We use our own reflections of our personal experiences of undergoing face-to-face and online sessions to reveal the differences between them. Y1 - 2023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Corsa, Rita T1 - The divining rod: Pioneering explorations of the psychoanalytic field (https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2023.2214346) JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 32 (No. 3, 2023), pp. 135-144. N2 - At the turn of the twentieth century, curiosity about paranormal events, in particular clairvoyance and telepathy through the state of hypnotic trance, spread widely throughout the Old World and the United States. The investigative interest in this field infected many psychoanalysts, including Freud. This paper intends to examine the pioneering articles which the creators of the psychoanalytical movement in Italy dedicated to this topic. A special place though rightly belongs to Emilio Servadio and to the founding father of Italian psychoanalysis, Edoardo Weiss. Weiss' experiences within the paranormal world are documented in a series of letters, some completely unpublished, which he exchanged with Paul Federn. The A. evaluates this correspondence, with the aim of transposing the discourse onto a theoretical level. Weiss' interpretations of his mediumistic experiences and Servadio's writings on telepathy and on paranormal dreams contains incredibly suggestive observations, which seemed to herald an expansion into the analytic field of the area of ⁣⁣exchange between analyst and patient. They sensed some axioms which would only much later be theorised within the inter-subjective psychoanalysis and the field model. Y1 - 2023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hao, Jingdi T1 - The Escapement of Freedom and the Pursuit of Freedom in >The Blind Assassin< [《盲刺客》中爱丽丝的“逃避自由”分析] [application of Fromm's theories to art] JF - Journal of Zunyi Normal University [遵义师范学院学报], No. 5 (2023), pp. 65-68. N2 - [Chinese abstract not available] Starting from Fromm’s >freedom< theoretical system and based on Marx’s definition of the proletariat, Alice and Laura in >The Blind Assassin< are divided into proletarians objectified by the bourgeoisie. In the capitalist free market economy, Alice, as a representative of the proletariat, shifted her attitude towards freedom from >avoidance< to >pursuit<. Analyze the reasons for her self-awareness from passive avoidance to active pursuit of freedom in the context of the times, and come to the conclusion that in order to escape freedom, she tends towards authority and attachment. Although she can gain a sense of belonging, it also means the extinction of herself. Only by actively pursuing freedom can she truly achieve individual independence and integrity, and shape a healthy life. [Translation: www.cnki.net, 1/2024] Y1 - 2023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Liu, Wenxin A1 - et al, T1 - The Formation and Consolidation of Scientific Paradigm in American Psychology after World War II: Analysis Based on Social Character [二战之后美国心理学科学主义范式的形成与巩固——基于社会性格的分析] JF - Acta Psychologica Sinica [心理学报], No. 10 (2023), pp. 1729-1744. [Print ISSN 0439-755X] [doi.org/10.3724/SP.J.1041.2023.01729] N2 - [Chinese abstract not available] The flourish development of scientific psychology in America was often understood as the necessary subsequence of the evolution of intellectual history in psychology, in which psychology separated itself from philosophy and gradually found its own scientific methods during the past centuries. However, as one of categories of culture, the history of psychology could not be understood without the considering of societies and people who live in it. According to Fromm’s social psychological studies, social change may form the social character of a given society, and the social character will initiate new thoughts or ideas which constitutes new culture and ideology. This new kind of culture and ideology will be easy to be accepted by the society, and solidify its social character in turn. So it will be interesting if we explore the process in which psychology in America committed to scientism from the perspective of social change and social character after World War II. There were a lot of changes after World War II in America society in terms of politics, economics, industrial structure, population, education, and belief. On the material level, America reached the so-called advanced industrial society and consumer society. On the mental level, the worship of knowledge gradually replaced the worship of god in America society. These changes formed the social character of America after World War II through pragmatism and individualism that were parts of American culture. The key trait of this kind of social character are one-dimensionality, pursuing of instrumental rationality, and individual priority. What this kind of social character looking forward in terms of psychology as a part of culture and ideology is the disenchantment of inner world, or we can say the secularization of mind, which will offer some kind of certainty for the working of American society.– World War II promoted the development of psychology on general, and also left abundant of problems for America society, such as psychic trauma of veteran, the need for mental health, how to avoid the reviving of totalitarianism, how the collective affect the behavior of individual, and how to train more scientists, professors, and engineers for America and finally win the competition with Soviet Union. All these needs from society led to the boom of clinical psychology, social psychology, developmental and educational psychology, and psychometrics in America. Not only the numbers of APA members and journals, but also the number of PHD in American psychology surged during three decades after World War II. The schools of psychology in America also changed during that time. New behaviorism declined after Hull and Skinner’s time due to its neglect of psyche. Psychoanalysis used to affect American psychology and evolved to ego psychology which could be seen as the product of Americanization. However, psychoanalysis was finally marginalized by scientific psychology in America because of the rise of evidence based medicine. The Third Force Psychology once made a noise in America, but it finally faded due to its attempt to connect psychology and philosophy again, and its complicated methods. It was cognitive psychology that became most popular and the main paradigm of American psychology. In a nutshell, the history of American psychology expressed its social character after World War II which called for the secularization of mind. The scientific psychology in America also plays its ideological role in maintaining the efficient work of American society in turn. [Translation: www.cnki.net, 7/2023] Y1 - 2023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Funk, Rainer T1 - The Human and His Potential for Development in the Economy. Lecture presented at the >Agora Leadership Talk< at Ascona on September 23, 2023. Y1 - 2023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Chen, Man T1 - The Problem of Freedom in the Movie >Xún qiāng< – Based on Fromm's >Escape from Freedom< [电影《寻枪》中的自由问题 – 基于弗洛姆的《逃避自由》] JF - Mixed Accent, No. 1 (2023), pp. 84-87. N2 - 弗洛姆在《逃避自由》中认为,人们在一定时期内对自由的逃避是社会进程的产物。逃避自由的第一种机制是放弃个人自我的独立倾向而臣服于权威。权威并非必然是来自具体的个人或组织机构,也可以来自如道德良心之类的无形压迫。如果前者被称为外在权威,那么后者就是一种内在权威,且内在权威像外在权威一样实行严厉统治。电影《寻枪》作为一部悬疑片,实际上也体现了现代人的自由困境,主人公马山丢失的手枪便是权威的象征。他只有在臣服于权威并寻回手枪后,才能重获自由。 N2 - In >Escape from Freedom<, Fromm argues that people's escape from freedom over a period of time is a product of social processes. The first mechanism of escape from freedom is the abandonment of the independent tendencies of the individual self in favor of submission to authority. Authority does not necessarily come from specific individuals or organizational institutions, but can also come from invisible oppressions such as moral conscience. If the former is called external authority, then the latter is an internal authority, and the internal authority rules as harshly as the external authority. The film >Xún qiāng< [>The Missing Gun<], as a suspenseful film, actually embodies the dilemma of modern human freedom. Only after he submits to the authority and retrieves the pistol can he regain his freedom. [Translation: www.cnki.net, 1/2023] 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - De-Weck, Roger T1 - Ungleichheit ist Unfreiheit – über Ueli Mäder. Lobrede zur Verleihung des Erich-Fromm-Preises JF - Fromm Forum (Deutsche Ausgabe – ISSN 1437-0956), 27 / 2023, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 087-102. T3 - Fromm Forum (German edition / deutsche Ausgabe) - 4 Y1 - 2023 VL - d27/2023h ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mäder, Ueli T1 - Vertrauen aufbauen JF - Neue Wege, Zürich, Vol. 117, No. 9 Vertrauen in der Krise, pp. 3-7. Y1 - 2023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fromm, Erich T1 - Vita activa JF - E. Fromm, Czy nadal kochamy życie?, ed. by Rainer Funk, Polish by Stefan Baranowski and Marian Leon Kalinowski, Krakow (Wydawnictwo Vis-a-vis Etiuda) 2022, pp. 221-231. 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 - Hardeck, Jürgen T1 - Vom Haben zum Sein. Erich Fromm neu gelesen JF - Fromm Forum (Deutsche Ausgabe – ISSN 1437-0956), 27 / 2023, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 025-035. T3 - Fromm Forum (German edition / deutsche Ausgabe) - 11 Y1 - 2023 VL - d27/2023b ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bierhoff, Burkhard T1 - Von der Konsumkritik zu einem ökologisch tragfähigen Lebensstil JF - Fromm Forum (Deutsche Ausgabe – ISSN 1437-0956), 27 / 2023, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 193-211. T3 - Fromm Forum (German edition / deutsche Ausgabe) - 1 Y1 - 2023 VL - d27/2023n ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Brück, Michael von T1 - Wagnis und Verzicht – vom Haben zum Sein. Zur Praxis einer ethischen Mystik JF - Fromm Forum (Deutsche Ausgabe – ISSN 1437-0956), 27 / 2023, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 008-024. T3 - Fromm Forum (German edition / deutsche Ausgabe) - 3 Y1 - 2023 VL - d27/2023a ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Funk, Rainer T1 - Was geschah im Heidelberger Therapeutikum? Erkenntnisse aus dem Briefwechsel von Lea Langer und Hans Grundig JF - Fromm Forum (Deutsche Ausgabe – ISSN 1437-0956), 27 / 2023, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 226-244. T3 - Fromm Forum (German edition / deutsche Ausgabe) - 9 Y1 - 2023 VL - d27/2023p ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sporrer, Lisa Maria T1 - Was lässt Menschen so irrational handeln? Gespräch mit Rainer Funk übver Erich Fromm JF - Schwäbisches Tagblatt, Tübingen, 18. Februar 2023, Y1 - 2023 ER - 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 - Lee, Austina Frances A1 - Smith, Gareth Dylon T1 - Where is the Love, y’all? Punk Pedagogy in High School Choir JF - Research in Education, Vol. 115, No. 1 (2023), pp. 100-115. [Online ISSN 2050-4608] [doi.org/10.1177/00345237231152605] N2 - Capitalism and its offspring, neoliberalism, are omnipresent in modern and postmodern societies. Illich, Giroux, and McLaren, among others, point to the futility and inequity of current models of education that focus on standardization, vocationalism, and conformity. Running counter to these powerful hegemonic systems, critical pedagogues and educational philosophers such as hooks and Silverman follow philosophers Frankfurt and Wolf in identifying a teaching approach rooted in love. Such an ethic embodies a robust, punk confrontation to potentially damaging, dehumanizing institutional norms perpetrated by current systems of schooling (Hewitt & Smith, 2020). The authors present and discuss vignettes as a duo-ethnographic study of one teacher’s work with a high school choir in Colorado Springs, USA, through which she works to engage young people as compassionate artistic citizens (Elliott & Silverman, 2015; Hendricks 2018). By teaching with love and by modeling love, she teaches young people to love, embracing what Noddings (2005) identifies as an ethic of care. This choral community demonstrates the messy, anarchist ideal that Wright (2019) highlights as a necessary future for music education, wherein the educator diverts from teaching solely to standardized expectations to address the affiliative needs of her students through a love that desires good for her students (Fromm, 1956; Noddings, 2005) Y1 - 2023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fromm, Erich T1 - Wola życia JF - E. Fromm, Czy nadal kochamy życie?, ed. by Rainer Funk, Polish by Stefan Baranowski and Marian Leon Kalinowski, Krakow (Wydawnictwo Vis-a-vis Etiuda) 2022, pp. 111-118. Y1 - 2023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Johach, Helmut T1 - Zur Aktualität von Erich Fromms Arbeiten. Erich Fromm über Frieden und Krieg JF - Friedensforum, No. 3, 2023, pp. 49-51. Y1 - 2023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bierhoff, Burkhard T1 - Über die Pathologie der Normalität im Konsumkapitalismus JF - Agora 42. Das philosophische Wirtschaftsmagazin, No. 3, 2023: Normalität. Y1 - 2023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mysovskikh, L. O. T1 - Феномен конформизма во взглядах представителей Франкфуртской школы [The Phenomenon of Conformism in the Views of Representatives of the Frankfurt School] JF - Abyss (Вопросы философии, политологии и социальной антропологии) / Abyss (Studies in Philosophy, Political science and Social anthropology), No. 25/8 (2023), pp. 78-85. [ISSN 2587-7534] [doi.org/10.33979/2587-7534-2023-3-78-85] N2 - Предметом рассмотрения настоящей статьи являются взгляды на феномен конформизма, изложенные в трудах представителей Франкфуртской школы: Макса Хоркхаймера, Теодора Адорно, Герберта Маркузе и Эриха Фромма. Прослеживается трансформация трактовки феномена конформизма в изученных работах. На основании воззрений мыслителей Франкфуртской школы выводятся некоторые закономерности и особенности конформного поведения личности. Автор приходит к выводу, что феномен конформизма можно рассматривать как адаптацию поведения человека к нормам, правилам и установкам, господствующим в обществе. Конформизм в качестве формы социального поведения может быть взаимосвязан и с различными нарушениями в системе социального порядка. Амбивалентность конформизма состоит в том, что конформное поведение может приводить как к конструктивным, так и к деструктивным последствиям. При этом представители Франкфуртской школы сосредоточивают свое внимание главным образом на деструктивной стороне конформизма, давая ему негативную оценку, так как конформистское поведение личности происходит, главным образом, из принуждения. Принужденный к конформизму индивид, не осознающий, ради чего он соглашается с навязанным образом действий, приспосабливается к не понятным и не приемлемым для него общественным установкам, оказывается осуществляющим деструктивную деятельность. N2 - The subject of this article is the views on the phenomenon of conformism expressed in the works of representatives of the Frankfurt school: Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse and Erich Fromm. The transformation of the interpretation of the phenomenon of conformity in the studied works is traced. Based on the views of the thinkers of the Frankfurt school, some patterns and features of the conformal behavior of the individual are deduced. The author comes to the conclusion that the phenomenon of conformity can be considered as an adaptation of human behavior to the norms, rules and attitudes prevailing in society. Conformism as a form of social behavior can be interconnected with various violations in the system of social order. The ambivalence of conformity is that conformal behavior can lead to both constructive and destructive consequences. At the same time, representatives of the Frankfurt school focus their attention mainly on the destructive side of conformity, giving it a negative assessment, since the conformist behavior of the individual comes mainly from coercion. An individual forced to conformism, not realizing why he agrees with the imposed course of action, adapts to incomprehensible and unacceptable social attitudes for him, turns out to be carrying out destructive activities. Y1 - 2023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Urías Horcasitas, Beatriz T1 - Entre Marx y Freud: el totalitarismo según Serge, Fromm y Marcuse [Between Marx and Freud: Totalitarianism by Serge, Fromm and Marcuse] JF - Estudios Sociológicos de El Colegio de México, Vol. 41, No. 121 (2023), pp. 37-64. [Online ISSN 2448-6442] [doi.org/10.24201/es.2023v41n121.2287] N2 - Victor Serge, Erich Fromm y Herbert Marcuse elaboraron una primera interpretación acerca de los totalitarismos nazi y soviético. La particularidad de sus escritos al inicio de 1940 fue entrelazar conceptos marxistas y psicoanalíticos para comprender la racionalidad que subyacía a estos dos fenómenos. En paralelo, hicieron propuestas para renovar el socialismo en un sentido democrático. Coinciden en plantear que además de la represión política y del control burocrático, la dominación totalitaria se ejercía a través de un potente aparato ideológico que había arraigado en el inconsciente individual y colectivo. Consideraron que la importancia del trabajo intelectual estaba ligada a la comprensión de los mecanismos psicológicos que sustentaban el fenómeno totalitario a fin de erradicarlo. N2 - Victor Serge, Erich Fromm y Herbert Marcuse provided some of the first interpretations of Nazi and Soviet totalitarianism. A special feature of their work in early 1940 was to link Marxist and psychoanalytical concepts to understand the rationality underlying Nazism and Stalinism. At the same time, they formulated proposals to renew socialism in a democratic sense. These three authors posited that, beyond political repression and bureaucratic control, totalitarian rule was implemented through a powerful ideological apparatus that had taken root in the individual and collective subconscious. Moreover, they considered that the importance of intellectual work was linked to the psychological mechanisms that sustained the totalitarian phenomenon with the aim of eradicating it. Y1 - 2023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wei, Huiying T1 - >Sing, Unburied, Sing<: The Dual Lack and Pursuit of Love and Identity among Black People JF - International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation, Vol. 5, No. 11 (2022), pp. 87-95. [Online ISSN 2617-0299] [doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2022.5.11.10] N2 - [Chinese abstract not available] Jesmyn Ward’s third novel, >Sing, Unburied, Sing<, however, is Ward’s second work to have won the National Book Award for fiction. It was >Sing< that laid a solid foundation for Ward’s reception from the American literary circle as a powerful new voice. Sing focuses on a black family in the American south, which was nearly torn apart by poverty, drugs, and racial discrimination; Apart from the estranged kinship in the black family, represented by ghost Richie, the black group in the novel also shows a seemingly strong desire for identity. Based on Erich Fromm’s alienation theory and his theories of love, this paper gives an analysis of the alienation of the protagonist at the level of love and racial identity and focuses on the struggle of the black group to survive in the white mainstream society, which resulted in their dual lack and dual pursuit of love and identity. This paper aims to reveal Ward’s fierce criticism of racist ideology that has caused the double dilemma of survival and spirit of black people in the American South and demonstrate her deep understanding as well as support for the ideals and actions of African Americans in terms of their eagerness to integrate into the mainstream society. [Author's English] Y1 - 2023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Xu, Mengyue T1 - The Consciousness of Constructing Black Community in >A Raisin in the Sun< [application of Fromm's theories to art] JF - Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (Francis Academic Press, UK), Vol. 6, No. 15 (2023), pp. 29 – 34 [ISSN 2616-5783] [doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2023.061505] N2 - [Chinese abstract not available] Lorraine Hansberry, the first black playwright and the youngest American to win a New York Critics’ Circle award, her >A Raisin in the sun<, opens on Broadway with great success. This paper mainly adopts the Alienation Theory of Fromm to explore her consciousness of reconstructing an inclusive Black Community based on disclosing that the dreams of the black people are distorted into sublime objects constructed by the dominant ideology. Grounded on the three principles from Fromm’s Alienation theory, this paper finds that Hansberry has not only suggested that the elimination of alienation can be achieved by the strong power of family bonds but also highlighted the essential role that the Black tradition plays in the construction of an inclusive Black Community where black people can traverse the ideological fantasy and develop their racial pride. [Author's English] Y1 - 2023 ER -