TY - JOUR A1 - Lankau, Ralf T1 - Human Intelligence and Autonomy Instead of Control by IT and AI JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 29 / 2025, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 092-108. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - 10 Y1 - 2025 VL - e29/2024h ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Raidt, Anke T1 - Welcome and Introduction to the Conference JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 29 / 2025, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 056-062. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - 11 Y1 - 2025 VL - e29/2024d ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Raidt, Anke T1 - Freeing With Each Other and Coming to the World Together. About Asking and Letting Found JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 29 / 2025, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 123-138. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - 12 Y1 - 2025 VL - e29/2024j 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 -