TY - JOUR A1 - Zepf, Siegfried T1 - Metaphors in psychoanalytic theory – Do we need them? JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 3, 2024), pp. 163-173. N2 - The author questions Wallerstein’s conviction that psychoanalytic concepts are >scientific metaphors.< If one were to adopt his view, psychoanalysis would fall into line with Lakoff and Johnson′s thesis that the conceptual system of our thoughts and actions is basically metaphorically structured. The author rejects both their views by demonstrating how the system inherent in our conceptual structure works, and disproving Lakoff and Johnson’s thesis as an assertion. In his view, if psychoanalytic concepts are understood as metaphors without defining their target domains, they lose their cognitive function and allow general metaphors to be understood in a whole variety of ways. The author suspects that this metaphorization of psychoanalytic concepts serves to suggest that psychoanalysis has a unified theory which would guarantee the community’s scientific unity, despite the theoretical and therapeutic pluralism that currently prevails. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Whitebook, Joel T1 - Psychoanalysis and the Frankfurt School JF - Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis. From the Frankfurt School to Contemporary Critique, London and New York (Routledge) 2022, pp. 1-25. Y1 - 2022 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - White, John R. T1 - Colonizing the American Psyche: Virtue and the Problem of Consumer Capitalism JF - Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis. From the Frankfurt School to Contemporary Critique, London and New York (Routledge) 2022, pp. 211-230. Y1 - 2022 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Waska, Robert T1 - Interpreting with a Modern Kleinian view: Clinical examples of talk therapy and what is said JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 4, 2024), pp. 232-240. N2 - Case material, disguised for confidentiality, is used to show the way interpretations are made from the Modern Kleinian therapy approach and how these interpretations evolve during the course of a session and throughout treatment. Issues of focus on defense and/or internal phantasy conflict are discussed and the centrality of projective identification and phantasy are then illustrated. In detailed clinical reports, the patient’s internal object relational struggles are highlighted, explored, and challenged with supportive interpretation. This includes a focus on transference, countertransference, and containment. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wankmüller, Agnes Edith T1 - Demonstrating morality or symbolic mastery? Outrage dynamics on progressive social media communities versus a Frommian ethics of engagement - https://doi.org/10.1037/hum0000407 JF - The Humanist Psychologist (American Psychological Association - APA), Vol. 53 (2025), pp. 581-597. N2 - Contemporary outrage dynamics in progressive online communities are frequently dismissed by far-right critics as mere >virtue signaling.< However, this reductive framing obscures the complex motivations behind moral expressions in these digital spaces, which range from genuine ethical concern to hedonistic punishing and performative self-distinction. This article interrogates the ambivalent motivations for outrage within progressive social media communities, examining how hedonic or nonmoral motives can become foregrounded in commodified or algorithmically amplified social media environments. Drawing on critical theory and Bourdieusian social theory, I situate the engagement in these dynamics as affective and symbolic strategies that can function both as critical impulse and to obscure prevailing inequalities while reaffirming the outraged subject as >good.< Using Erich Fromm’s concepts of marketing orientation and social sadism, I reflect on how contemporary outrage practices reflect these distorted social characters shaped by capitalist incentive structures and attention economies. To offer an outline for ethical engagement in social media outrage, I utilize Fromm’s humanist social philosophy which puts emphasis on relatedness, autonomy, and solidarity, thereby providing a critical ethics that resists the logic of punishment and moral performance in commodified spaces. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved) Y1 - 2025 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Vamsi G, Madhu T1 - Erich Fromm JF - Telangana Journal of IMA, Vol. 3 (No. 1, 2023), pp. 35-37. [Online ISSN 3050-6166] [journals.lww.com/tjima/toc/2023/03010] N2 - Erich Fromm, German-born American psychoanalyst and social philosopher who explored the interaction between psychology and society. By applying psychoanalytic principles to the remedy of cultural ills, Fromm believed, mankind could develop a psychologically balanced >sane society<. Y1 - 2023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Usak, Hale T1 - On female melancholia in migration: Interpretations from Turkish-Muslim culture with a case vignette JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 4, 2024), pp. 255-269. N2 - Today, melancholia is no longer used as a separate clinical picture in psychotherapeutic diagnostics. Instead, the symptoms are subsumed under major depression or dysthymia and understood as a disease concept. In both Freud's interpretation and in the artistic, Islamic, poetic, and medical-historical approaches in Turkish culture, melancholia is understood in a richer way than just in terms of a >disease-like disorder.< This article aims to emphasize the broader understanding of melancholia within the Turkish-Islamic context and illuminate intersections with psychoanalysis. Since the Islamic faith occupies an important place in the treatment and popular understanding of mental disorders both historically and to the present day, religious and mystical aspects related to melancholia are also considered in this article. A case vignette of a melancholic migrant woman with Turkish roots is used to trace the psychodynamic movements in her treatment. In order to follow this patient’s psychoanalytic process, the theoretical explanations in the first part of the article provide the sensibilization for a deeper understanding of the cultural and religious aspects important to the inner dynamics of this woman. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Thompson, Michael J. T1 - Critical Theory and Radical Psychoanalysis: Rethinking the Marcuse-Fromm Debate JF - Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 42 (No. 3, 2025), pp. 59-74. [Online ISSN 1460-3616] [doi.org/10.1177/02632764241299350] N2 - I explore the ways that the debate between Herbert Marcuse and Erich Fromm relates to the possibility of informing both a critical psychoanalysis as well as how psychoanalysis can fit into critical social theory. I argue that Fromm’s emphasis on the social nature of the mind and the self is a more attractive template that Marcuse’s more anachronistic reading of Freud and his metapsychology. Fromm grants centrality to the issue of praxis as central to the nature of critique, both in terms of one’s relation to oneself in psychoanalytic terms as well as to the dynamics and structures of the social world of which we are a part. Y1 - 2025 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Thompson, Michael J. T1 - The New Authoritarian Character: Group Narcissism, Psychic Regression and Late Capitalism JF - J. Fantauzzi, M. Levitin, T. Maley (Eds.), Erich Fromm and Left Strategy . New Paths Toward Radical Transformation, New York (Palgrave Macmillan) 2025, pp. 141-162. Y1 - 2025 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Strosberg, Benjamin B. T1 - Critical Theory and Anti-Semitism: Implications for Politics, Education, and Psychoanalysis JF - Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis. From the Frankfurt School to Contemporary Critique, London and New York (Routledge) 2022, pp. 131-157. Y1 - 2022 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Spiers, Robbie T1 - Love, Actually? Theodor Adorno, Erich Fromm, and the Possibility of Love in Capitalist Modernity JF - New German Critique, Vol. 51 (No. 3, 2024), pp. 45-68. [Online ISSN 1558-1462] [doi.org/10.17863/CAM.106983] N2 - Love is not regularly associated with the Frankfurt School. Theodor Adorno and Erich Fromm are not regularly associated with each other. Yet, when we bring these Critical Theorists’ works together, a rich discussion of love emerges. Love is viewed by both as a dialectical force, bringing two subjects into union while also allowing them to cultivate their individual selves. Fromm and Adorno operate within the same Marxist philosophical tradition, meaning that they share concerns about the increasing commodification of love and the disappearance of genuine, spontaneous relationships between people. The similarities are not endless, however, and important differences between them remain: Fromm, with his optimism and his concern for existential issues, maintains a belief in revolutionary political change and high spiritual ideals that the materialist pessimist Adorno resists as comfortable illusions. Through this philosophical encounter, two faces of Critical Theory emerge, one oriented toward an analysis of the present and the other turned toward hopes for the future. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Spiegel, Jasmin T1 - >About false Jews<: Transgenerational posttraumatic identity confusions in Germany JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 3, 2024), pp. 184-192. N2 - In times of rising group-focused enmity and toxic polarizations between conflicted groups worldwide, a differentiated debate about the transgenerational complexities of German and Jewish posttraumatic entanglements of identity is needed. This article focuses on one specific and limited clinical phenomenon: the >adoption< by a few people in Germany of a Jewish identity that is not present in their own biography. An introduction to the phenomenon from clinical practice is followed by a brief historical and social contextualization, as well as theoretical models of explanation for the adoption of a potentially oppressed minority status. With reference to theories on social trauma and its transgenerational transmission to both victims and perpetrators, the psychoanalytic examination of a single case is used to develop the thesis that posttraumatic Jewish identity confusion and constructions are to be understood not only as an individual variant of >false-self,< but also as a form of transgenerational repercussion of the social trauma of the Shoah. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Smith, David Norman T1 - The Agitator Supplies What the Base Demands: Trumpism Before and After Donald Trump JF - Critical Sociology, Vol. 50 (No. 4-5, 2024), pp. 813-843 [Online ISSN 1569-1632] [doi.org/10.1177/08969205231208921] N2 - The fierce loyalty of Donald Trump’s base has long mystified his critics. For 8 years now, they have expressed puzzlement that his followers support him >despite everything< – despite his incendiary rhetoric, his misogyny, his racial prejudices, and his authoritarianism. In this paper, I argue that, in fact, Trump’s hectic agitation is precisely what his base wants. My reading of the data – including data I gathered with my collaborator, Eric Hanley, in 2016 – is that Trump owes his demagogic success to the fact that he says what his followers want him to say and acts accordingly. Donald Trump, today’s agitator par excellence, supplies what his base demands. Trump, in short, is less an architect of Trumpism than its reflex. However effectively he performs in the public arena, he remains an emissary, personifying a social movement that preceded him and will survive him. And that movement, I will argue, is authoritarian in a very specific sense – driven by a wish for a domineering leader who is loyal to his partisans and hostile to their adversaries. Analytic insight into this phenomenon is drawn, below, from a range of authors, including marketing professionals and critical theorists including Erich Fromm and Theodor W. Adorno. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sauer, Stefan A1 - Nicklich, Manuel T1 - Utopian Promises and the Risk of Regression – Erich Fromm and the Future of Work JF - Berlin Journal of Critical Theory, Vol. 7 (No. 2, July, 2023), pp. 79-103. N2 - The discourse around digitalisation has become detached from the lived reality of the world of work. This discourse is dominated by vague, nebulous promises about new models of work on the one hand and dire warnings of a mass replacement of human labour on the other. Drawing on the work of Erich Fromm, we argue that this creates a risk of regression, as people turn to ‘traditional’ authority figures or a fatalistic solutionism that places unconditional faith in technology. We instead ropose an alternative approach rooted in people’s actual experiences that looks for ways that digital technology can be used to support and augment, rather than replace, human labour. Y1 - 2023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sartini, Lorenzo T1 - The influence of Argentine psychoanalytic culture in Italy JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 34 (No. 2, 2025), pp. 092-109. N2 - In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many Italians emigrated to South America, especially to Argentina and Brazil, in search of a better life than the one they were living in a country tormented by social and economic unrest. Later, with the advent of a political situation in Argentina strongly marked by instability, especially with the coup d’état that sanctioned the rise to power of General Videla in 1976, those who could boast even distant ties of kinship in Italy chose that destination instead to continue to build their lives. Among these were several who had been trained in psychoanalysis in Argentina. Once they started working in Italy, they necessarily passed on their training background influenced by a psychoanalysis that, in Argentina, had already started to think in terms of “field” and begun to be applied to groups and institutions. Y1 - 2025 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rodrigues, Flávio T1 - Educator Perception: The Orientations of Social Character and Professional Identity. Paper to be published 2ß24, 14 pp. N2 - Why study teacher perception? To answer this question, let's consider the teaching profession as a perceptual process. Teaching viewed as a way of experiencing the world, a perception in the mold of Merleau-Ponty. But how can we support this claim without placing the teaching professional in a biological or innate role? Between the purely innate and the purely empirical, we propose the ex-ducere, the act of educating – Ex Ducere: Ex = out; Ducere = to lead – as a central trait of teaching praxis. In this way, we point to a possible teaching orientation of character and a probable teaching identity, productive when inclusive and non-productive when exclusive – in both cases, guided by the act of educating. This trait would emerge from the perception of human fragility itself. These ideas come from a set of studies on the need for relationships. Among them are the studies of Shulz & Waldinger on relationships and longevity; Erich Fromm on the need for relationships; and Gottlieb on the evolution of behavior, as well as the studies of Neves, Junior & Murrieta. To confirm the above statement of a type of teaching orientation, this study aims to demonstrate that morphological characteristics, such as human fragility in contact with the environment, forced a type of orientation structure; they caused habits, behaviors, and character orientations to be constituted and developed into sophisticated social instruments. Such devices are refined modes of caring for offspring, increasingly requiring parental involvement over time, which gradually was delegated to a specific type of professional: the educator. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rodado, Juan T1 - A relational psychoanalysis: The real presence of the analyst JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 34 (No. 1, 2025), pp. 020-027. N2 - The Argentine psychoanalyst Julio Moreno (2010) theorizes two models of psychic functioning. One he calls associative functioning, which is composed of mental representations and words that link together in association, integrating both the conscious and preconscious. These representations are subject to repression and phenomena of displacement and condensation. The other type of psychic functioning is what Moreno refers to as connective functioning, which is represented by the immanent, the immediate, which falls outside the order of representation. These two types of psychic processing coexist and occur simultaneously and, for Julio Moreno, “the link” is the space between the two. This work intends to explore the linking dimension that an analytic relationship proposes and that is established in each analytic session in the patient–therapist pair. For this purpose, a clinical case is shown, describing the bonding climate, the analyst’s countertransference and the mutual unconscious work. It emphasizes that, in severely ill patients, the quality of the bond is more crucial than interpretative work, and for this, the live and real presence of the analyst is necessary. Y1 - 2025 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Roazen, Paul T1 - Philosophy, Banality, and Barbarism Considered - Hannah Arendt - Jaspers Correspondence JF - Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 101 (No. 4, Winter 1994), pp. 886-892. Y1 - 1994 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Roazen, Paul T1 - Felix Deutsch and the FBI JF - Psychologist, Psychoanalyst, Winter 1993, pp. 28-30. Y1 - 1993 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Roazen, Paul T1 - Introduction in: P. Heller, Reflections on a child analysis with Anna Freud and an adult analysis with Ernst Kris JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 20 (No. 1, 1992), pp. 48-74. Y1 - 1992 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Roazen, Paul T1 - Glasnost and Peristroika in Psychoanalysis. Opiniom JF - Academy Forum, Fall 1992, pp. 22f. Y1 - 1992 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pittenger, Frank T1 - Recapitulation and the Vicissitudes of Progress, From Freud to the Frankfurt School: “The Germ of the Regression” JF - Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis. From the Frankfurt School to Contemporary Critique, London and New York (Routledge) 2022, pp. 66-94. Y1 - 2022 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pfaller, Robert T1 - No Sex Without Coffee: The One Nature and Its Superstructures: Elements of Freudian Materialism JF - Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis. From the Frankfurt School to Contemporary Critique, London and New York (Routledge) 2022, pp. 231-246. Y1 - 2022 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pambuccian, Viktor T1 - Brouwer Vindicated by Neuroscience JF - The Mathematical Intelligence (Springer Nature 2024), Vol. 47, pp. 2-5; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-024-10380-z Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Oliveira Moreira, Jacqueline A1 - et al., T1 - The objectification of mankind in consumerist societies: A post-Lacanian perspective JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 34 (No. 2, 2025), pp. 125-135. N2 - The paper outlines the effects of consumerism on the human subject and human bonds. The present text discusses, through Freud’s conceptualization of >object,< the process leading to a possible objectification of mankind in consumerist societies. Later, Hegelian arguments are also used in an effort to differentiate >object of consumption< and >object of desire,< which are often interpreted as synonyms. Finally, contemporary authors are brought to the discussion to reflect on the effects of this confusion on contemporary subjects and their possible objectification. One might ask, then, whether the logic of consumption offers the illusion of omnipotence that places man in the position of master, that is, the illusion of independent consciousness. But isn’t the individual actually being enslaved? Thus, from the reading of Hegel, Freud, and Žižek, we think that this is what transforms the subjects dominated by consumerism into objects of consumption themselves. We believe that the wager of psychoanalysis in the Lacanian perspective is based on the immortality of desire and the responsibility of the subject for their choices. The analyst at work has the possibility of interpreting a discourse, that is, interpreting the surplus of jouissance, the modes of enjoyment of each discourse. Y1 - 2025 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - O'Donnokoé, Niclas A1 - Jammermann, Philip A1 - Kühn, Thomas T1 - Erich Fromm’s humanistic psychology as normative orientation amid social and political challenges - https://doi.org/10.1037/hum0000413 JF - The Humanist Psychologist (American Psychological Association - APA), Vol. 53 (2025), pp. 521-527. N2 - This introductory editorial to the special issue on Erich Fromm presents his humanistic psychoanalysis and critical social theory, argues for his contemporary relevance, and outlines the issue’s aims, themes, and contributions. We show how Fromm links the psyche and the social, explaining how social structures shape psychological needs and how these needs, in turn, act back on society. We also state the normative core of his approach: a humanist account of shared relatedness and human capacities, while treating sociopsychological dynamics as historically mediated. Finally, we preview the articles in the following issue, which span leadership and organizations, digital communication and online outrage, ideological conflict and populism, debates over (anti-/post-/trans-)humanism, and case studies of cooperative and solidarity practices. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved) Y1 - 2025 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Newman, Leonard S. T1 - Of course people can reject democracy: psychological perspectives JF - Frontiers in Social Psychology, Vol. 2 (2024), pp. 1-6. [Online ISSN 2813-7876] [frontiersin.org/journals/social-psychology/articles/10.3389/frsps.2024.1461701/full] [doi.org/10.3389/FRSPS.2024.1461701] N2 - Concerns have been expressed about a worldwide retreat from liberal democracy and a turn toward more authoritarian forms of government. Along with that concern has come surprise: when the cold war ended, it was widely believed that a new historical era was dawning during which alternatives to Western liberalism would wither away. Influential psychological theories also assume that freedom and autonomy are powerful human needs – needs that are thwarted by dictatorships. However, a number of theoretical perspectives and programs of research in psychology lead to the conclusion that in certain circumstances, turns toward authoritarian forms of government and restrictive societies are not only explicable, but also predictable. Fromm's analysis of why people might want to escape from freedom, Baumeister's work on escape-from-self mechanisms, and Schwartz's review of the literature on choice overload all provide ways of understanding why in turbulent times, members of free countries might intentionally seek out – and perhaps even ecstatically embrace – authoritarian forms of government. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mujica, Ernesto A1 - et al., T1 - When the body speaks: A case discussion of bodily manifestations of introjection and identification with the aggressor JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 34 (No. 1, 2025), pp. 037-046. N2 - This paper provides an analysis of the patient’s somatic experiences and fantasies during the psychoanalytic psychotherapy of childhood relational trauma. Somatizations and enactments pertaining to childhood traumas are discussed as they expressed aspects of early stigmatizations, social bullying, and parental boundary violations. A central persecutory theme of impending death during the Covid pandemic is discussed as it revealed previously unspeakable persecutory fears. Obsessional somatic preoccupations and fantasies expressed the patient’s sense of inescapable condemnation and annihilation, which in turn portrayed the patient’s fear of parental homicidal wishes toward the patient. Key aspects of this treatment also concerned an analysis of self-endangerment and suicidality as a defensive process of identification with the aggressor. Somatic aspects of transference and countertransference phenomena are explored as an integral part of the analysis. A discussion of the case material with two psychoanalyst colleagues is included. Y1 - 2025 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Moroni, Angelo Antonio T1 - Adolescence as a phenomenon of the field and affection as a vector of at-one-ment in the analytic relationship JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 34 (No. 2, 2025), pp. 110-124. N2 - I believe that clinical work with adolescents provides extremely valuable contributions in the Field Theory area. The observation and care of adolescents has always made me think how growth is a painful process of separation from and rediscovery of the lost object in après-coup, how important it is for us analysts not to lose touch with our human gaze, and above all with the meaning of the affection that guides our clinical listening, especially when we are dealing with minors who are >hard to reach< (Joseph 1975). Therefore, I consider affection a genuine theoretical and technical prerequisite – I could say, a >parameter< – for emotionally contacting the adolescent in the symbolic and affective place where they happen to be: in other words, for fostering a unison. So, in this paper, I would like to try and set up a dialectic between the concepts of affection, unison (Bion 1962) and subjectivation in adolescence, understood as a field and group phenomenon. Y1 - 2025 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Morelock, Jeremiah A1 - Ziotti Narita, Felipe T1 - Beyond Spiked Honey: Liberation, Eudaimonia, and Social Self-Actualization JF - J. Fantauzzi, M. Levitin, T. Maley (Eds.), Erich Fromm and Left Strategy . New Paths Toward Radical Transformation, New York (Palgrave Macmillan) 2025, pp. 047-068. Y1 - 2025 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mills, Jon T1 - Critical Theory and Contemporary Psychoanalysis JF - Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis. From the Frankfurt School to Contemporary Critique, London and New York (Routledge) 2022, pp. 287-302. Y1 - 2022 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mills, Jon T1 - Dysrecognition and Pathos JF - Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis. From the Frankfurt School to Contemporary Critique, London and New York (Routledge) 2022, pp. 115-130. Y1 - 2022 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - McLaughlin, Neil T1 - How Political Was the Democratic Socialist Fromm? JF - J. Fantauzzi, M. Levitin, T. Maley (Eds.), Erich Fromm and Left Strategy . New Paths Toward Radical Transformation, New York (Palgrave Macmillan) 2025, pp. 255-284. Y1 - 2025 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - McCormack, Rudy Leal T1 - Climate Anxiety as a Form of Sanity: Erich Fromm in the Age of Climate Crisis JF - Constellations, 2025. - https://doi.org/10.llll/1467-8675.70019 Y1 - 2025 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - McCormack, Rudy Leal T1 - Toward an Ecological Frommian Integration: Eco-Neurosis as a Sado-Masochistic Maladaptation JF - J. Fantauzzi, M. Levitin, T. Maley (Eds.), Erich Fromm and Left Strategy . New Paths Toward Radical Transformation, New York (Palgrave Macmillan) 2025, pp. 185-206. Y1 - 2025 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Maniadakis, Grigoris T1 - The question of pleasure in the psychoanalytic treatment of borderline patients JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 34 (No. 1, 2025), pp. 057-061. N2 - Borderline states are known as forms of psychic structure functioning to a large extent >beyond the pleasure principle< as an aftermath of the traumatic relation with the primary object. In my paper I will try to approach facets of the above issue at the level of the technical aspects of borderline patients’ psychoanalytic treatment as well as particularities of the containing function and the countertransferential experience of the analyst. Y1 - 2025 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Maley, Terry T1 - Afterword: Fromm’s Contribution and Relevance Today JF - J. Fantauzzi, M. Levitin, T. Maley (Eds.), Erich Fromm and Left Strategy . New Paths Toward Radical Transformation, New York (Palgrave Macmillan) 2025, pp. 307-311. Y1 - 2025 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Macdonald, Matthew A1 - Wearing, Stephen A1 - Ponting, Jess T1 - Narcissism and Neo-Liberalism: Work, Leisure, and Alienation in an Era of Consumption JF - Loisir et Société / Society and Leisure, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp 489-510. - DOI: 10.1080/07053436.2007.10707762 N2 - The purpose of this paper is to trace some of the links between neo-liberalism, narcissism and the influence of work, leisure and consumer culture on self-identity. By examining narcissism as an instrument of personality and social psychological analysis, we investigate the ways in which self-identity in neo-liberal societies is constructed and fulfilled through interactions with the marketplace, promoting self-interest and success in the form of wealth, admiration and bodily perfection. It is our contention that this process creates narcissistic identities, which attempt to defend the self against the degradation of work in neo-liberal societies, and where anxiety, emptiness and isolation are converted into pleasure and healing through leisure consumerism. In the final analysis we explore some of the links between narcissistic work and leisure, and psychological distress and disorders. Y1 - 2007 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - RodadoLoiacono, Anna Maria T1 - Falk Leichsenring puts Psychodynamic Psychotherapy into the WHO Standards JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 34 (No. 2, 2025), pp. 136-138. Y1 - 2025 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - RodadoLoiacono, Anna Maria T1 - The poetics of the symptom JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 34 (No. 1, 2025), pp. 028-036. N2 - In contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice, the patient’s and the analyst’s body are growing in importance. Over time psychoanalysis has become enriched by neurosciences, sociology, neonatal studies, philosophy, literature, and art. It is especially focused on what has not been represented and integrated within the mind, and on how to recover, represent, transform, and integrate these types of experiences, with the corporeal experience now acquiring more prominence. I will assemble those so-called >poetic< aspects in the formation and manifestation of the symptom, which come from embodied and non-symbolized experiences. I will start from the observation that poetry offers an embodied meaning, learned through the body before being understood in the mind. Similarly, the suffering world of our patients can resonate within the therapist like a poem or a piece of music. Through careful attention to the resonances in the body and in reverie, therapists can deduce the personifications inhabiting that internal world. It is as if the poetic experience is situated “on the border” between the sensorial dimension and the verbal dimension. After a brief review of the psychoanalytic literature on corporeal experience in psychoanalysis, a clinical vignette will clarify these statements. Y1 - 2025 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lindebaum, Dirk A1 - Langer, Susanne T1 - On the Psycho-emotional Deficitisation of Workers in the Age of Cognitive Enhancement JF - Organization, Vol. 31 (No. 4, 2024), pp. 703-719. [Online ISSN 1461-7323] [doi.org/10.1177/13505084221145617] N2 - Despite being the subject of public and scholarly debates for some time, the topic of cognitive enhancement remains theoretically under-developed in organisation studies. This is because the ‘dots’ still have to be ‘connected’ between macro-level phenomena (here, the therapeutic ethos and cognitive capitalism), and micro-level phenomena (in this case, cognitive abilities). In this essay, we use Fromm’s notion of social character to theorise dialectally about the interaction between these macro and micro-level phenomena. Doing so enables us to examine how the macro/micro interaction fosters to adoption of cognitive enhancement in the context of work, and what kinds of consequences might emerge from this. We propose the psycho-emotional deficitisation of workers as a central consequence of the aforementioned interaction, and define it as an internalised version of external ideals of what it means to be a productive worker under cognitive capitalism, which over time generates and reinforces the affective experience of being deficient. Our theorising around socially patterned defects of a cognitive kind has crucial ramification for our understanding of technology-mediated affective control at work and how human–technology interactions shape the subjectivities of workers towards greater self-inferiorisation vis-à-vis the perceived superiority of technology. We close by foreshadowing avenues for future research. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Levitin, Maor T1 - Erich Fromm’s Lurking Theory of Ethical Leadership JF - J. Fantauzzi, M. Levitin, T. Maley (Eds.), Erich Fromm and Left Strategy . New Paths Toward Radical Transformation, New York (Palgrave Macmillan) 2025, pp. 109-124. Y1 - 2025 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Leskauskas, Darius T1 - Encounters with totalitarian objects in the super-ego development of Generation Z adolescents JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 34 (No. 1, 2025), pp. 009-014. N2 - Over the past three years we have encountered social processes that have shattered our steady way of living: the COVID pandemic, social unrests and splits after presidential elections, the war in Ukraine. Adults with a post-totalitarian personality have experienced a re-activation of their inner totalitarian objects, but >Gen Z< adolescents without the personal experience of living in a totalitarian system react differently to current realities. Practitioners are witnessing a dramatic increase in social anxieties and anorexia nervosa – psychopathologies characterized by the introjections and projections of intrusive controlling objects, a strict punitive super-ego that resembles the dynamics of inner totalitarian objects. This can be attributed to the increased exposure to the Internet during the COVID-related social isolation, with a decreased possibility for reality testing. The Internet acquired an overbearing influence on all domains of personality development for Generation Z individuals, including on the super-ego. The Internet houses totalitarian cyber-objects that increase their presence and influence in situations of social and developmental unrest, impinge on the development of psychic structures, and can lead to related pathological psychodynamics. Y1 - 2025 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Leisinger, Klaus M. T1 - Corporate Responsibility in Difficult Times. Intervention at the 50th Year Congress of the Philosophical Society of Türkiye Ankara, October 3rd, 2024, 11 pp- Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Langman, Lauren T1 - Toward a Critical Theory of Social Change JF - J. Fantauzzi, M. Levitin, T. Maley (Eds.), Erich Fromm and Left Strategy . New Paths Toward Radical Transformation, New York (Palgrave Macmillan) 2025, pp. 021-046. Y1 - 2025 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kühn, Thomas T1 - Any chance for a revolution of hope? Transformative leadership as normative identity work - https://doi.org/10.1037/hum0000412 JF - The Humanist Psychologist (American Psychological Association - APA), Vol. 53 (2025), pp. 631-652. N2 - This article develops a humanistically grounded and critically informed conceptualization of transformative leadership through the lens of normative identity work. Drawing on Erich Fromm’s social psychology, it reframes leadership as a moral and cultural practice that responds to systemic inequality, ethical disorientation, and the fragmentation of meaning in contemporary societies. Leadership, in this view, is not about directing others but about creating spaces in which people can orient themselves ethically and act with integrity within complex and contested contexts. The article integrates three strands of critical scholarship—humanistic ethics, critical leadership theory, and biographical research on identity—to substantiate this approach. This triangulation enables a multidimensional understanding of leadership that connects structural conditions with the subjective work of identity formation. The proposed >normative ABC< model—agency, belonging, and coherence—provides an analytical framework to explore how identity work unfolds at the intersection of power, meaning, and ethical striving. Rather than prescribing fixed ideals of >good leadership,< the article advocates for a reflexive, context-sensitive practice that engages with contradiction and supports dialogical, emancipatory processes. In times of overlapping crises, transformative leadership entails cultivating a shared horizon of responsibility and hope—while remaining attentive to social conflict, ideological tensions, and the contested nature of identity. From this vantage point, leadership becomes a space of critical engagement with the conditions that shape human development and possibilities for social transformation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved) Y1 - 2025 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Korzhuev, Andrey V. A1 - et al., T1 - Anthropological dialogue of E. Fromm with S. Freud and other Western philosophers (modern methodological conceptualization) JF - XLinguae, Vol. 16 (No. 3, 2023), pp. 66-77. [Online ISSN 2453-711X] [xlinguae.eu/files/XLinguae3_2023_7.pdf] [doi.org/10.18355/XL.2023.16.03.07] N2 - Along with reading the works of philosophers of the past and reflecting on their logic and content, it is important for modern humanities to identify the difference in their standpoints on the fundamental issues of human existence. The given article addresses these issues exemplified by the dialogue in letters between E. Fromm and S. Freud. It investigates the difference between the two philosophers' views on the problems of rationalism and irrationalism, free will, good and evil in human nature, the specificity of human aggressiveness, and the relationship between the conscious and the unconscious. The article also examines the similarities and differences in the ways the thinkers approach the problem of human fear, the role of childhood in a person's adult life, manifestations of narcissism, the correlation of biological and social factors in the process of character formation, the nature of dreams in their works. In most cases, Fromm's position, focused on >libidinal charm<, is recognized by Fromm as limited and supplemented by spirituality and sociality. At the same time, in a number of cases, Fromm's criticism is mild, and sometimes it shows strong, justified disagreement with Freud. It is noted that the dialogue of thinkers is interesting as highly intellectual communication on universal human issues, clearly reflecting the personal and scientific portraits of the authors for a modern researcher in the field of psychology, philosophy, sociology, and theoretical and practical education. There is a stated methodological value of the dialogue in question: through the opportunity offered to a reader to identify the correctness of the methods used: a) meaningful comparison of scientific positions; b) interpretation of quotes of the criticized opponent; c) defining the opponent's consideration as incomplete, unreasonably narrow, not reflecting the magnitude of the object under consideration; d) exposing the narrowed analysis perspective of the criticized author in a new integrity; e) analysis of the possibilities of applying the law of the excluded middle to particular cases; f) the possibility, based on a logical-meaningful synthesis, to identify those problems that have escaped the notice of the criticizing author. Y1 - 2023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Juni, Samuel T1 - Toward a unified field theory of libido and aggression: introducing Delta as the singular id dynamic in drive theory JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 34 (No. 2, 2025), pp. 067-080. N2 - Although tension reduction is a key principle in drive theory, there are clear dynamic aspects of libido expression aimed at increased tension levels. In a paradigmatic shift from the Freudian conflict model, tension reduction and tension enhancement dynamics are re-conceptualized as valences toward the processes of tension reduction and tension enhancement, rather than toward the respective states of reduced tension or enhanced tension. We posit a unitary direction-independent foundational id drive toward tension level change which incorporates tension reduction and enhancement. As the primary drive circumscribed to manipulations of id tension level, the dynamics of Delta are distinguished from those of Eros and Thanatos whose purviews are in the domain of drive purpose/function (or evolutionary design) and also differentiated from the subjective phenomenological experience of drive expression which varies among people. Theoretical and clinical issues in sexuality and aggression are critically analyzed as entailing libidinal elements of tension enhancement and reduction. Key points are annotated with illustrative clinical vignettes. The intersections between Delta dynamics, ego psychology, and object relations are explored. Possible elaborations of sub-drive development entailing functional autonomy are outlined. Y1 - 2025 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jones, David W. T1 - Navigating the space between: Reflecting on epistemological struggle and the psychosocial perspective. [Navigieren im Raum dazwischen: Nachdenken über den erkenntnistheoretischen Kampf und die psychosoziale Perspektive] [Navegando por el espacio intermedio: reflexionando sobre la lucha epistemológica y la perspectiva psicosocia] [Navigare lo Spazio Intermedio: Riflettendo sulla Lotta Epistemologica e la Prospettiva Psicosociale] [Πλοήγηση στον ενδιάμεσο χώρο: Αναστοχάζοντας σχετικά με τον επιστημολογικό αγώνα και την ψυχοκοινωνική] JF - European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, Vol. 27 (No. 1-2, 2025), pp. 152-170. [Online ISSN 1469-5901] [tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/13642537.2025.2459385] [doi.org/10.1080/13642537.2025.2459385] N2 - The articles in this special issue all explore the complex relationship between individuals and their social world, examining the limitations of traditional paradigms. Between them they provide robust critiques of both psychologism and sociologism for failing to fully capture the complex interplay of the social and the psychological, highlighting the need for a more nuanced understanding. In this paper I suggest that engagement with ‘psychosocial perspectives’ that acknowledge the inextricable link between psychic and social realms, can offer this more nuanced understanding of human experience. I examine the development of psychosocial thinking, highlighting the influence of practice, particularly psychiatry and psychoanalysis, in shaping this perspective. The paper explores research methods that draw on diverse theories and practices, including psychosocial interviewing, observational methods, social dreaming and historical methods. The paper concludes by advocating for a critical and nuanced approach to understanding human experience, one that recognizes he profound influence of the >social unconscious< on individual and collective lives. N2 - Die Artikel dieser Sonderausgabe erforschen alle die komplexe Beziehung zwischen Individuen und ihrer sozialen Welt und untersuchen die Grenzen traditioneller Paradigmen. Zusammen liefern sie eine deutliche Kritik sowohl am Psychologismus als auch am Soziologismus, weil sie das komplexe Zusammenspiel des Sozialen und des Psychologischen nicht vollständig erfassen; Dies unterstreicht die Notwendigkeit eines differenzierteren Verständnisses. Der Artikel schlägt vor, dass die Auseinandersetzung mit >psychosozialen Perspektiven<, die die untrennbare Verbindung zwischen psychischen und sozialen Bereichen anerkennen, zu einem differenzierteren Verständnis der menschlichen Erfahrung führen kann. Der Artikel untersucht die Entwicklung des psychosozialen Denkens und hebt den Einfluss der Praxis, insbesondere der Psychiatrie und Psychoanalyse, auf die Gestaltung dieser Perspektive hervor. Basierend auf verschiedenen Disziplinen werden Forschungsmethoden untersucht, die für psychosoziale Studien relevant sind, darunter psychosoziale Interviews, Beobachtungsmethoden, soziales Träumen und historische Methoden. Der Artikel schließt mit der Befürwortung eines kritischen und differenzierten Ansatzes zum Verständnis menschlicher Erfahrung, der den tiefgreifenden Einfluss von erkennt das >soziale Unbewusste< im individuellen und kollektiven Leben. N2 - Todos los artículos de esta edición especial exploran la compleja relación entre los individuos y su mundo social, examinando las limitaciones de los paradigmas tradicionales. Entre ambos ofrecen críticas sólidas tanto al psicologismo como al sociologismo por no capturar completamente la compleja interacción de lo social y lo psicológico; destacando la necesidad de una comprensión más matizada. El artículo sugiere que el compromiso con las >perspectivas psicosociales< que reconocen el vínculo inextricable entre los ámbitos psíquico y socialpuede ofrecer esta comprensión más matizada de la experiencia humana. Elartículo examina el desarrollo del pensamiento psicosocial, destacando lainfluencia de la práctica, particularmente la psiquiatría y el psicoanálisis, en laconfiguración de esta perspectiva. Basándose en diversas disciplinas, exploramétodos de investigación relevantes para los estudios psicosociales, incluidaslas entrevistas psicosociales, los métodos de observación, los sueños sociales ylos métodos históricos. El artículo concluye abogando por un enfoque crítico ymatizado para comprender la experiencia humana, que reconozca la profundainfluencia del >inconsciente social< en las vidas individuales y colectivas. N2 - Gli articoli in questa edizione speciale esplorano tutti la complessa relazione tragli individui e il loro mondo sociale, esaminando i limiti dei paradigmi tradizionali. Insieme, offrono critiche solide sia al psicologismo che al sociologismo, evidenziando la loro incapacità di cogliere pienamente l’interazione complessa tra il sociale e lo psicologico, e sottolineano la necessità di una comprensione più sfumata. L’articolo suggerisce che l’adozione di una >prospettiva psicoso ciale<, che riconosce il legame inestricabile tra i regni psichico e sociale, può offrire questa comprensione più articolata dell’esperienza umana. L’articolo esamina lo sviluppo del pensiero psicosociale, mettendo in luce l’influenza della pratica, in particolare della psichiatria e della psicoanalisi, nella formazione di questa prospettiva. Attingendo a discipline diverse, esplora metodi di ricerca rilevanti per gli studi psicosociali, tra cui l’intervista psicosociale, i metodi osservativi, il social dreaming e i metodi storici. L’articolo conclude promuo vendo un approccio critico e sfumato alla comprensione dell’esperienza umana, che riconosca l’influenza profonda dell’ >inconscio sociale< sulle vite individuali e collettive. N2 - Les articles de cette édition spéciale explorent tous la relation complexe entre les individus et leur monde social, en examinant les limites des paradigmes traditionnels. Ils fournissent tous deux de solides critiques du psychologisme et du sociologisme pour leur incapacité à saisir pleinement l’interaction complexe du social et du psychologique, soulignant la nécessité d’une compréhension plus nuancée. L’article suggère que l’engagement dans des >perspectives psychosociales< qui reconnaissent le lien inextricable entre les domaines psychique et social, peut offrir cette compréhension plus nuancée de l’expérience humaine. L’article examine le développement de la pensée psychosociale, soulignant l’influence de la pratique, en particulier de la psychiatrie et de la psychanalyse, dans la définition de cette perspective. S’appuyant sur diverses disciplines, il explore les méthodes de recherche pertinentes pour les études psychosociales, notamment les entretiens psychosociaux, les méthodes d’observation, le rêve social et les méthodes historiques. L’article conclut en plaidant pour une approche critique et nuancée de la compréhension de l’expérience humaine, une approche qui reconnaît l’influence profonde de >l’inconscient social< sur la vie individuelle et collective. N2 - Τα άρθρα αυτού της της ειδικής έκδοσης διερευνούν την πολύπλοκη σχέση μεταξύ των ατόμων και του κοινωνικού τους κόσμου, εξετάζοντας τους περιορισμούς των παραδοσιακών παραδειγμάτων. Μεταξύ τους παρέχουν ισχυρές κριτικές τόσο του ψυχολογισμού όσο και του κοινωνιολογισμού για την αποτυχία τους να συλλάβουν πλήρως την πολύπλοκη αλληλεπίδραση του κοινωνικού και του ψυχολογικού, τονίζοντας την ανάγκη για μια πιο λεπτή κατανόηση. Το άρθρο προτείνει ότι η ενασχόληση με >ψυχοκοινωνικές οπτικές< που αναγνωρίζουν τον άρρηκτο δεσμό μεταξύ της ψυχικής και της κοινωνικής σφαίρας, μπορεί να προσφέρει αυτήν την πιο λεπτή κατανόηση της ανθρώπινης εμπειρίας. Το άρθρο εξετάζει την ανάπτυξη της ψυχοκοινωνικής σκέψης, τονίζοντας την επίδραση της πρακτικής, ιδιαίτερα της ψυχιατρικής και της ψυχανάλυσης, στη διαμόρφωση αυτής της οπτικής. Αντλώντας από διάφορους κλάδους, διερευνά μεθόδους έρευνας σχετικές με τις ψυχοκοινωνικές σπουδές, συμπεριλαμβανομένων των ψυχοκοινωνικών συνεντεύξεων, των μεθόδων παρατήρησης, των κοινωνικών ονείρων και τον ιστορικών μεθόδων. Το άρθρο καταλήγει υποστηρίζοντας μια κριτική και λεπτή προσέγγιση για την κατανόηση της ανθρώπινης εμπειρίας, η οποία αναγνωρίζει τη βαθιά επιρροή του >κοινωνικού ασυνείδητου< στην ατομική και συλλογική ζωή. Y1 - 2025 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Johnston, Adrian T1 - Communism and Ambivalence: Freud, Marxism, and Aggression JF - Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis. From the Frankfurt School to Contemporary Critique, London and New York (Routledge) 2022, pp. 26-65. Y1 - 2022 ER -