TY - JOUR A1 - Kubsda, Michael T1 - Young People’s Identity Problems. Notes from a Frommian Perspective JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 112-115. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - 20 Y1 - 2024 VL - e28/2024o ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Buechler, Sandra T1 - Why truth matters: Some notes on psychotherapy post truth. Paper of the special issue on >Humanistic transformation and its implications for psychoanalytic theory and therapy< N2 - The very existence of truth, let alone its worth, is currently under attack from many quarters. In the wider culture, disinformation and other forms of misrepresenting the truth spread far and wide, as information conduits proliferate. This paper suggests some reasons for the >anti-truth< trend. Mainstream media have played a role, as have theoreticians from fields as diverse as philosophy, psychoanalysis, science, and literary criticism. >Anti-truth< trends are having a serious impact on psychological treatment, affecting its content and the conception of its goals. This paper suggests some problematic outcomes of this phenomenon for practitioners and patients in various forms of psychotherapy. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fromm, Erich T1 - Where Does the Way Lead to? JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 038-040. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - 10 Y1 - 2024 VL - e28/2024j ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Funk, Rainer T1 - What Does >Productive Orientation< Mean According to Erich Fromm? JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 081-111. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - 18 Y1 - 2024 VL - e28/2024n ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fromm, Erich T1 - Traditional Judaism and Zionism JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 014-019. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - 4 Y1 - 2024 VL - e28/2024d ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rudnytsky, Peter L. T1 - The Social Determinants of Psychoanalytic Therapy: Fromm’s Anti-Authoritarian >Calling Card< JF - Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 009-014. N2 - This article examines Fromm’s 1935 paper, >The Social Determinants of Psychoanalytic Therapy,< situating it in the context of Fromm’s life and setting forth its contrast between Freud’s >authoritarian, patricentric attitude< and the >humane, philanthropic attitude< of Ferenczi, who was deeply influenced by Groddeck. Despite critiquing Fromm’s tendency to give insufficient attention to the >the individual fate of the person,< such as would be necessary to explain the differences between Freud and Ferenczi, in expounding his concept of the >social character,< the present paper argues that Fromm’s >calling card,< published while Freud was still alive, is >one of the greatest papers in the psychoanalytic literature.< Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Golec de Zavala, Agnieszka T1 - The Psychologx of Collective Narcissism. Insights from Social Identity Theory, London and New York (Routledge) 2024, 251 pp. N2 - The Psychology of Collective Narcissism is a ground-breaking text that presents a new theory of collective narcissism, a belief that exaggerated greatness of one’s own group should be but is not sufficiently appreciated by others. The book presents this concept against the background of social identity theory and research. It explores antecedent as well as social and political consequences of collective narcissism. The author discusses how this burgeoning theory and research can help to elucidate a wide range of psychological dynamics involved in pressing societal issues, such as the declining appeal of democracy, increasing populism, decreasing social solidarity, increasing societal polarization and prejudice, intergroup hostility and political violence, social inequality, and fake news and belief in conspiracy theories. Also referring to societal problems exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, this highly topical work explores socially shared beliefs as risk factors when predicting responses to crises and highlights conditions in which collective narcissism can be expected. The author also reviews research on interventions reducing the link between collective narcissism, prejudice, and retaliatory intergroup hostility focusing on her recent research on mindfulness. This is a valuable read for academics and students in psychology and the social sciences, those interested in societal processes as well as professionals dealing with the impact of collective narcissism. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Philipson, Ilene T1 - The Plague of Certitude: Why Fromm Matters Today JF - Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 045-052. N2 - Today, a plague of certitude is spreading within American psychoanalysis. This socially constructed virus is increasingly dominating our unmoderated list serves, appearing in our journals, and slowly seeping into our institutes. Having transcended the objectivism of traditional Freudian analysis, we seem to be revivifying its spirit. Rigorous claims to truth, superior knowledge, and contempt for those not in agreement abound. The life and work of psychoanalyst and sociologist Erich Fromm is offered as an antidote and model for resistance to this plague. He consistently objected to all forms of authoritarianism, from the Right and the Left. As a radical humanist he viewed us all as responsible selves, not mere vessels for instinctual drives or victims of unbearable circumstances. As Paul Roazan said about Fromm: >It still seems to me remarkable how he was willing to stand up for what he believed in. He should be a model of independence and autonomy for us all.< Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Thompson, Michael T1 - The ontological structure of Erich Fromm’s critical humanism. Paper of the special issue on >Humanistic transformation and its implications for psychoanalytic theory and therapy< JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 2, 2024), pp. xxx. N2 - This paper explores Erich Fromm’s concept of humanism, arguing that it provides us with a unified theory for both clinical work as well as social criticism. Fromm’s humanistic ideas are rooted in a structure of thought that sees our existence, our ontology as human beings, as constituted by our inherent capacities for both relatedness as well as positing ends and purposes in the world. By cultivating a self-awareness of these dual capacities, we can achieve a state of freedom, a self-consciousness of our capacity to shape our reality as opposed to conforming ourselves to it. In this way, Fromm’s ideas constitute a critical humanism that can be realized in the world via self- and social transformation and not merely an abstract set of principles or concepts. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fromm, Erich T1 - The Amsterdam Mizrahi World Conference JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 020-022. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - 5 Y1 - 2024 VL - e28/2024e ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fromm, Erich T1 - Should We Hate Hitler? JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 047-051. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - 12 Y1 - 2024 VL - e28/2024l ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cortina, Mauricio T1 - Rethinking Erich Fromm’s Humanism and His View of Human Nature JF - Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 095-102. N2 - This article reviews Fromm’s view of human nature that is the basis for his existential humanism. Fromm’s core idea was that the combination of minimal instinctual endowment, enormous expansion of our neocortex, and being born in a helpless state created a set of existential contradictions or dichotomies. The main contradiction or dichotomy is being part of nature yet transcending it by being aware of our mortality. Not being able to go back to the previous “harmony” with nature, humans must develop their capacity for reason, symbolic capacities, imagination and human solidarity or regress to symbiotic and incestuous ties. I make two main arguments. I show that instead of losing our instincts, humans retain three social instincts that we share with other social species, namely attachment instincts (and forming attachment bonds), affiliation to groups (group instinct) and sexual instincts. I show how these three instincts have been significantly transformed in relation to our great ape relatives making us a more flexible, adaptive, cooperative and ultrasocial species. Second I describe a new evolutionary paradigm in which genes and culture coevolve and influence each other, also known as the dual inheritance model. The main effect of this dual inheritance is that cultures, like genes, transmit information and knowledge from one generation to the next. The cumulative effect of cultural knowledge transmitted through thousands of generations is that we develop new modes of production, new technologies, art forms, and new cultural rituals and practices. To which we must adapt. This new view of what made us human puts Fromm’s view of human nature and his radical humanism on a stronger sociobiological foundation. I close by making the argument that our group instinct is both our greatest strength and greatest weakness, making us a species with a >genius for good and evil<. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Daniel, Burston T1 - Remembering The Sane Society: An American Lament JF - Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 116-123. N2 - Erich Fromm’s book >The Sane Society< was published in 1955, the second year of President’s Eisenhower’s administration, but had a profound impact on the ideas and agendas of social activists during the 60s and 70s, including this author. Its central theses were that the middle-class prosperity characteristic of that era masked a >pathology of normalcy,< and that capitalism transforms active citizens into passive consumers by compelling people to fill their material needs in ways that are at variance with their existential or human needs. The result is a dramatic diminution of their critical faculties, an atrophy of conscience, and the proliferation of a >marketing character,< a kind of alienated, hedonistic lifestyle whose emptiness is palliated by the consumption of ever larger quantities of consumer goods. Fromm’s analysis still rings true in some respects, but the middle-class prosperity and bland uniformity of opinion he critiqued began to wane in the late 1970s, gradually giving way to sharp extremes of poverty and wealth. The resulting political polarization has now reached a critical point, where the future of American democracy – or what little is left of it – is now in peril. So, as we approach 2025, Fromm’s analysis of America in the mid-20th century must be updated and modified to fit the contours of contemporary social realities. In so doing, however, we discover that American society is even more alienated, more atomized and fragile than it was in Fromm’s day. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fromm, Erich T1 - Rabbi Nobel as Youth Leader JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 034-035. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - 8 Y1 - 2024 VL - e28/2024h ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Huppke, Andrea T1 - Psychoanalysis Globally Networked. The Origins of the International Federations of Psychoanalytic Societies, translated from German by Robin Verner, Bicester (Karnac Books - IFPS Series) 2024, 227 pp. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cortina, Mauricio T1 - Prologue: Erich Fromm’s Relevance for Our Troubled World JF - Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 001-008. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Funk, Rainer T1 - On the Psychodynamics of Right-Wing Populism: A Frommian Perspective JF - Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 037-044. N2 - The paper analyzes right-wing populism according to Erich Fromm’s socialpsychoanalytic approach and using his social-characterological insights on authoritarianism and narcissism. Right-wing populism can be explained much more plausibly if it is understood as an expression of a reactive narcissistic identity construction rather than as a return of fascism and authoritarianism. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fromm, Erich T1 - On the Mizrahi Delegates Convention JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 023-025. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - 6 Y1 - 2024 VL - e28/2024f ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fromm, Erich T1 - On the Convention of the Agudah-Israel Youth Organization JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 009-010. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - 1 Y1 - 2024 VL - e28/2024a ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fromm, Erich T1 - Obituary for Adolf Lissauer JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 011-012. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - 2 Y1 - 2024 VL - e28/2024b ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Frie, Roger T1 - Long Shadows of Racism and Genocide: Learning from Erich Fromm’s Social Psychoanalysis JF - Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 015-025. N2 - As a psychoanalyst, Fromm felt compelled to speak to the social and political crises of his time. Fromm’s social psychoanalysis was a radical departure from the Freudian mainstream and has important implications for how psychoanalysis can address social and political forces today. What is less known and often neglected is the way in which Fromm was himself shaped by the traumatic events of racial discrimination and genocide that marked the twentieth century, particularly the rise of Nazism, virulent anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. This article will weave together Fromm’s life-experience, and that of his family, with his development of key ideas relating to the threat of authoritarianism and racial narcissism. To illustrate the relevance of Fromm’s work in the present moment, I consider the reality of systemic racism and the long shadow of genocide. Drawing on my work as practicing psychoanalyst, I address the racial discrimination experienced by Indigenous peoples in Canada. In the process, I examine how the psychoanalysis and the therapeutic setting is embedded in society and inevitably implicated in the structures of systemic racism. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fromm, Erich T1 - Letter to the Extraordinary Cartel-Day of the Jewish Organizations Cartel JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 041-044. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - 11 Y1 - 2024 VL - e28/2024k ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fromm, Erich T1 - Jewish Students Association Ahdut, Frankfurt am Main JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 013. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - 3 Y1 - 2024 VL - e28/2024c ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Romanetto, Matheus T1 - Is There Room for Otherness in Humanism? Erich Fromm’s Alternative JF - Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 071-084. N2 - Humanism has been criticized as a philosophical and political stance from different points of view in recent decades. The paper summarizes four common types of criticism, stemming from political, ethical, technological, and ecological concerns. These criticisms relate back to a preoccupation with the respect for otherness or difference, either toward human or non-human beings. The paper tries to demonstrate that these concerns are also to be found as essential elements in the development of humanism itself, not only among its political and theoretical opponents. It does so with reference to Erich Fromm’s works, where a life-oriented ethics is coupled with a demand for sustained political relatedness to difference, without giving up notions of a radical humanism and the anthropology that accompanies it. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hahn, Marie T1 - I Shall Not Hate: A Theatre Pedagogical Examination of the Phenomenon of Hate and Fromm’s Theory of a Productive Character Orientation JF - Tiedemann, M. (Ed.): Philosophical Education Beyond the Classroom, Stuttgart (Springer) 2024, pp 439-462. [Online ISBN 978-3-476-05948-2] [doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05948-2_26] N2 - >I shall not hate.< This sentence ends the production at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden about Izzeldin Abuelaish’s biography, who lost three of his daughters in the violent conflict between Israel and Palestine. This particular attitude within a crisis situation becomes the starting point and framework of a teaching unit in which the students deal with the following questions: What is hate? Is it possible not to hate? How can hate be classified in the field of tension between the instinctual nature of human beings and a conscious attitude? How are crises and loss of orientation related to hate? Can a society be sick? How are Izzeldin’s attitude and Fromm’s theory of a productive character orientation connected and how is Izzeldin’s or Fromm’s offer of orientation to be judged against the background of crises and conflicts in the students’ lifeworld? Through a visit to a performance as well as theatre pedagogical forms of work, an access to this complex thematic field will be created. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Chancer, Lynn S. T1 - How Fromm’s Ideas Resonate Politically as well as Philosophically: The Contemporary Case of Guaranteed Income JF - Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 124-134. N2 - Erich Fromm is not generally associated with policy positions and politics. Yet, Fromm was an early proponent of guaranteed income as an important practical entitlement necessary if greater human freedoms were to be realized. The article traces the development of the idea of basic (or guaranteed income) in US social movement history going back to the 1960s and including the writings of Erich Fromm on this topic. It argues that the concept of guaranteed income flows easily from, and is consonant with, Fromm’s humanistic philosophy overall. Four reasons are offered, including those that are politically, ethically and pragmatically oriented, as to why providing basic income to all citizens has major advantages over the kind of economic precarity and anxieties that many people currently experience. Lastly, after making a multi-dimensional case for guaranteed income, the article responds to a common objection – namely, if basic income became universally available, people would not wish to work. Quite to the contrary, and as empirical experiments have shown, Fromm’s ideas suggest that guaranteed income would encourage people to work with increased commitment and passion and that more positive than negative consequences would ensue from the concept becoming a widespread and much more generally accepted public policy. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - McLaughlin, Neil T1 - How Erich Fromm Can Help Address the Jordan Peterson Problem in Psychoanalysis JF - Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 053-070. N2 - The current political climate is marked by polarization, which presents new difficulties for psychoanalysis. Erich Fromm, as a Freudian theorist and clinician, is uniquely positioned to address these issues. Fromm is a politically radical thinker who can help psychoanalysis think about society and social injustice beyond the clinical context while avoiding the dangers of excessively orthodox left-wing thinking that risks taking the field away from its core mission. Fromm can help psychoanalysis avoid what we are calling the >Peterson problem,< which is partly the result of provocative and extreme ideas in institutions and psychoanalytic publications that create reputational problems for the field. The >Peterson problem< brings new attention to the political bias of left-liberal authoritarians inside the profession, who focus on changing society rather than healing individuals and neglect audiences outside the liberal university and highly educated classes and thus create space for polarizing figures like psychologist Jordan Peterson to fill the gap. Peterson’s fame and influence serves as a lightning rod for the wider critique of left leaning political and cultural currents in psychoanalysis. Fromm can act as a role model as well as provide the intellectual resources for responding to these challenges. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Philipson, Ilene T1 - From the lonely crowd to the cyber mob: Fromm on the social consequences of loneliness. Paper of the special issue on >Humanistic transformation and its implications for psychoanalytic theory and therapy< JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 2, 2024), pp. xxx. N2 - In 1950, sociologist David Riesman published a best-selling book entitled The lonely crowd: A study of the changing American character. Famously, he described the ascendant >other directed< person as being haunted by an inner loneliness. This paper seeks to explain the current phenomenon of the cyber mob, an online crowd of peers gathered together to intimidate and >cancel<” others, as a form of group behavior founded in profound aloneness and alienation brought about by neoliberal society. While the existence of online groups or mobs is overdetermined, the desire to belong, to feel a part of something larger than oneself, and to escape a haunting inner loneliness may be the twenty-first-century corollary of what Reisman described 73 years ago. With the rise of authoritarianism throughout the world, climate change, massive inequality, pandemic, and the breakdown of moral authority, people on both the Left and the Right cling to cyber mobs to escape aloneness, discharge fear and rage, and acquire affirmation and acceptance through >likes< and >retweets.< While they seem to provide bonding and empowerment, what cyber mobs offer in truth is greater ferocious tribalism and the further undoing of social bonds, fellow feeling, and the remnants of civil society. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Frie, Roger T1 - Erich Fromm’s social psychoanalysis: Beyond the interpersonal dyad (https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2023.2285697) JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 2, 2024), pp. xxx. N2 - This article addresses the place of society in Erich Fromm's pioneering psychoanalytic work and in the evolution of interpersonal theory and practice. It suggests that there is much to be gained from a re-examination of Fromm's politically progressive perspective. By bridging sociology and psychoanalysis, Fromm developed a new approach known as >social psychoanalysis,< which sought to explain and understand the centrality of society in human experience and the therapeutic process. Fromm moved beyond Freud and found an ally in the American psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan. Together, Fromm and Sullivan became the key founders of the Interpersonal School of Psychoanalysis located at the William Alanson White Institute in New York. Despite their commonalities, however, Fromm and Sullivan differed in central areas, particularly on the issue of “adaptation” to society. Sullivan believed that adaptation was a marker of successful personality development and Fromm maintained that society inscribed pathology into the human being. This difference would prove definitive as interpersonal psychoanalysis moved from its radical beginnings to become a dominant school of contemporary psychoanalysis that focused on the interpersonal dyad and the interactions between the analyst and patient. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Buechler, Sandra T1 - Erich Fromm’s Clinical Influence JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 052-080. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - 15 Y1 - 2024 VL - e28/2024m ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Buechler, Sandra T1 - Erich Fromm: Clinical Mountain Guide JF - Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 103-115. N2 - Each psychoanalytic theory influences the clinician’s focus. This paper examines the impact of Erich Fromm’s writing on the analyst’s attention to the material in sessions. Briefly, Fromm’s work highlights the importance of the analyst’s passion, courage, pursuit of truth, capacity to bear uncertainty and suffering, and dedication to helping people embrace their freedom and realize their full potential. Fromm has inspired generations of clinicians to become politically active citizens, maintain enlivening curiosity, and kindle the life force in themselves and those they treat. What role does theory play in the moment-by-moment behavior of the analyst in a session? I first address the general question of my view of the role of theory in clinical work. Then I turn to the more specific issue of Fromm’s influence. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Layton, Lynne T1 - Erich Fromm: Ancestor of Social Psychoanalytic Practice JF - Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 026-036. N2 - Erich Fromm offered two key psychoanalytic concepts that bridge the psychic and the social: social unconscious and social character. In his view, these concepts are not only critical for understanding socio-historical phenomena but also ought to inform psychoanalytic clinical practice such that it might resist unconsciously encouraging patients to adapt to inequitable social conditions. This essay pays tribute to Fromm’s thinking while elaborating some of the differences between Fromm’s understanding of social unconscious/social character and my own. I argue that >social unconscious< does not quite capture the dynamic and conflictual nature of unconscious process, the ongoing conflict that social demands for conformity create in subject formation. To address that conflict, I propose the bridging concept of normative unconscious processes, processes that are always in conflict with counter-normative resistances. Points of both conflict and dissociation are precisely where analysts can challenge the psychic effects of oppressive social norms. Further, while agreeing with Fromm that analyzing social character ought to be central to clinical work, I argue that various and overlapping systemic oppressions – e.g. racism, heterosexism, classism – create, in any given society, multiple social characters and not just one dominant type. In agreement with Fromm’s argument that analysts themselves need to reckon with their own social character, I stress the importance for all of us to be as aware as possible of our own identity investments and social locations within unequal and overlapping power hierarchies. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Buechler, Sandra T1 - Erich Fromm. A Contemporary Introduction, London and New York (Routledge) 2024, 152 pp. N2 - In this passionate volume, Sandra Buechler introduces Erich Fromm's groundbreaking contributions to psychoanalysis, sociology, philosophy, political action, and social criticism. Buechler explores how Fromm's thinking and interdisciplinary vision are able to frame discussions of dilemmas in contemporary society. She offers a comprehensive biography of Fromm, before delving into his role as analyst, author, activist, sociologist and philosopher. From her own experience as a psychoanalyst, and from the testimony of Fromm's many ardent followers, Buechler illuminates Fromm's capacity to inspire. She considers how Fromm's writing equips students, beginning clinicians and more experienced professionals to understand what can give meaning to their efforts on behalf of troubled individuals, their riven communities, and the wider world. Assuming no prior knowledge of Fromm's work, this books offers students in clinical and social psychology, sociology, and philosophy a vital insight into his theoretical contributions. It will also be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychologists and social workers. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Boltvinik, Julio T1 - Erich Fromm – His Views on the Human Condition and Human Needs: Comparative Analysis with Maslow’s and Maccoby’s Need Schemes JF - Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 085-094. N2 - Fromm’s concept of the human condition and the existential dichotomies are described first; this is followed by Fromm’s scheme of needs, including positive and negative responses; finally, Fromm need’s scheme is compared with Maslow’s need scheme and Maccoby’s drive-values scheme. In the three cases a critical approach is taken which tries to identify weaknesses, omissions and contradictions in Fromm’s thought. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cortina, Mauricio T1 - Epilogue: Erich Fromm’s Relevance for Our Troubled World JF - Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 135-136. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Friedson, Meredith L. T1 - Dying to be born: How the failure to achieve mature love keeps humanity shackled to a necrophilic orientation. Paper of the special issue on >Humanistic transformation and its implications for psychoanalytic theory and therapy< JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 2, 2024), pp. xxx. N2 - Humanity is in crisis, and has been accelerating toward its own destruction. This is evident in: apathy toward climate change and the extinction of several species; the repetitive cycle of genocide and war; and the prevalence of nationalism, fascism, and xenophobia. As a citizen of the United States, I apply Erich Fromm's concepts of mature love, capitalism, alienation, the necrophilic character orientation, and insanity to the ailments plaguing the US, including: (1) white supremacy; (2) the systemic oppression of Black and Brown people; (3) legislation against women and LGBTQ and people; and (4) anti-maskers and science deniers. I also provide a critique of the noxious effects of capitalism. Fromm's ideas suggest these problems are a reflection of our collective failure to overcome our separateness through mature love, and are a byproduct of destructive, compensatory defenses that further our alienation and deadness. Fromm describes humanity as being in its psychological nascence, and defines being fully born as being a complete, integrated individual who is capable of self-love and of loving all other living beings. To correct our current trajectory, we need only apply Fromm's work in order to not compulsively repeat our tragic history in a tumultuous struggle to be born. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Romanetto, Matheus T1 - Critique and affirmation in Erich Fromm: Humanistic politics and the psychoanalytic clinic, London (Routledge) 2024, 278 pp. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gilligan, Ian T1 - Clothing, Sublimation, and the Enjoyment of War JF - Human Arenas (2024), 22 pp. [Online ISSN 2522-5804] [doi.org/10.1007/s42087-023-00397-9] N2 - Intergroup aggression occurs in many animal species but warfare has no clear non-human analogues. Among the features distinguishing war is that despite its obvious disadvantages and horrors, war enjoys enormous psychological appeal, illustrated by its entertainment value. The enjoyment of war presents a challenge for explanatory models, which range from adaptive scenarios in evolutionary paradigms to social learning and psychological drive theories. Further problems arise from findings in ethnography and archaeology. Among mobile hunter-gatherers who led traditional lifestyles, warfare was less common in socially non-complex contexts and, arguably, warfare was absent where people were routinely naked. In prehistory, warfare may be limited to the recent evolutionary past. A speculative formulation is outlined, positing a contributary role for sublimation, as a psychological effect of clothing. The proposed role of sublimation in the enjoyment of war allows for a more nuanced perspective on archaeological, ethnographic, and phenomenological evidence, suggesting warfare is not necessarily synonymous with intergroup aggression and its enjoyment could be contingent on the routine presence of clothing. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fromm, Erich T1 - Book Review of Gabe in honour of Rabbi Dr. Nobel 50th Birthday JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 036-037. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - 9 Y1 - 2024 VL - e28/2024i ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mella Alcazar, Amihan April T1 - Autism and Social Media Viewed from the Perspective of Erich Fromm JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 116-134. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - 22 Y1 - 2024 VL - e28/2024p ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fromm, Erich T1 - A Principled Word on the Question of Education JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 28 / 2024, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 026-033. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - 7 Y1 - 2024 VL - e28/2024g ER -