TY - JOUR A1 - Thompson, Michael J. T1 - Normative Humanism as Redemptive Critique: Knowledge and Judgment in Fromm's Social Theory JF - S. J. Miri, R. Lake, T. M. Kress (Eds.), Reclaiming the Sane Society. Essays on Erich Fromm's Thought, Rotterdam - Boston - Taipei (Sense Publishers) 2014, pp. 37-58. Y1 - 2014 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Thompson, Michael T1 - Fromm's Social Ontology and the Ethical Framework of Critical Theory JF - K. Durkin and J. Braune (Eds.), Erich Fromm's Critical Theory. Hope, Humanism, and the Future, New York (Bloomsbury) 2020, pp. 23-42. Y1 - 2020 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 - 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 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 -