TY - JOUR A1 - McLaughlin, Neil T1 - Revision from the Margins: Fromm's Contributions to Psychoanalysis JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 9 (No. 3-4, October 2000) pp. 241-247 N2 - Fromm's important contributions to the modern development of psychoanalytic thought are often ignored and frequently misunderstood. An early proponent of revisions of psychoanalytic theory and therapy similar to recent trends in object relations, self-psychology and interpersonal psychoanalysis, Fromm was a vi-sionary for a Freudian theory built upon orthodoxies of the past but going beyond them. It is argued here that Fromm's unique role in helping create a new version of psychoanalysis for the 21st century was as sociological as it was intellectual. Fromm's contributions were intimately linked to his institutional positioning close to the center but on the relative margins of the discipline. This paper will outline how sociological dynamics shaped Fromm's revision of psychoanalysis. We will con-clude by discussing how Fromm was able to have a more dramatic influence than other Freudian revisionists who were less favourably positioned. Y1 - 2000 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - McLaughlin, Neil T1 - Review Anderson, Kevin, and Richard Quinney (Eds.): Erich Fromm and Critical Criminology: Beyond the Punitive Society JF - Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences, ISSN 0022-5061, 2002, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 202-203. Y1 - 2002 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - McLaughlin, Neil T1 - Para un renacimiento de Fromm, ¿qué debemos hacer?, JF - El Humanismo de Erich Fromm, ed. by Jorge Silva García, Mexico and Barcelona (Paidós – Paidós Croma 40) 2006, pp. 17-32. Y1 - 2006 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Burston, Daniel A1 - Mclaughlin, Neil T1 - Letters to the Editor JF - Society, Vol. 30 (No. 2, February 1993, pp. 4-5. Y1 - 1993 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Funk, Rainer A1 - McLaughlin, Neil T1 - Introduction JF - R. Funk and N. McLaughlin (Eds.), Towards a Human Science. The Relevance of Erich Fromm for Today, Giessen (Psychosozial-Verlag) 2015, pp. 9-29. Y1 - 2015 UR - http://www.psychosozial-verlag.de/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/2535/CATALOGSSID/8c52oh5o77t4cs3r5m2r2722j4 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - McLaughlin, Neil T1 - Review Durkin, K.: The Radical Humanism of Erich Fromm JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 19 / 2015, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 72-74. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - e18/2015j Y1 - 2015 VL - e18/2015j ER - TY - JOUR A1 - McLaughlin, Neil A1 - Funk, Rainer T1 - Introduction JF - R. Funk and N. McLaughlin (Eds.), Towards a Human Science. The Relevance of Erich Fromm for Today, Giessen (Psychosozial-Verlag) 2015, pp. 9-29. Y1 - 2015 UR - http://www.psychosozial-verlag.de/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/2535/CATALOGSSID/8c52oh5o77t4cs3r5m2r2722j4 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - McLaughlin, Neil T1 - Optimal Marginality: Innovation and Orthodoxy in Fromm’s Revision of Psychoanalysis JF - The Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 42 (No. 2, 2001), pp. 271-288. N2 - The sociological study of intellectual innovation has long been polarized between romantic notions of the creative marginal intellectual & competing accounts stressing the benefits of national, organizational, & network centrality in the production of knowledge. I offer the concept of >optimal marginality< as an attempt to move beyond this longstanding but increasingly stale debate. The relationship between a certain type of marginality & intellectual creativity is discussed in the context of a case study on innovation within psychoanalysis. German psychoana-lyst Erich Fromm's contributions to the modern revision of Freudian theory is high-lighted to illustrate the conditions under which marginality is likely to lead to innova-tions within theoretical systems & intellectual organizations. What types of margin-ality lead to innovation? Under what conditions does marginality lead to insight, & when does it lead to marginal ideas? Four ideal types are outlined & a research agenda is called for that operationalizes & tests these theoretical ideas in the con-text of comparative sociological analysis of intellectual creativity. Y1 - 2001 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - McLaughlin, Neil T1 - Erich Fromm and Global Public Sociology, Bristol (Bristol University Press) 2023, 296 pp. Y1 - 2023 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 -