TY - JOUR A1 - Rudnytsky, Peter L. T1 - Trauma and Dissociation: Ferenczi between Freud and Severn JF - P. Rudnytsky: Formulated Experiences. Hidden Realities and Emergent Meanings from Shakespeare to Fromm, London and New York (Routledge) 2019, pp. 137-151. N2 - The conflict between Freud and Ferenczi during Ferenczi’s final period centers as much on their differences in technique as on Ferenczi’s revival of Freud’s pre-1897 trauma theory. Severn is the first patient since the 1890s whose childhood sexual trauma was the focus of her analysis, just as she was the first since Anna O. whose trauma-based dissociation was integral to her treatment. The corollary of the revival of trauma theory is a model of the mind based not on repression but dissociation. Ferenczi belongs to a tradition of analysts including Breuer, Fairbairn, and Sullivan who worked with a dissociation model. The fountainhead of this tradition is Janet, but though Ferenczi read and quoted from Janet, no references to Janet are found in Ferenczi’s work after 1924, when he began to move away from Freud. It is necessary to integrate scholarship on Ferenczi with the vast body of work on dissociation. Ferenczi is situated between Freud and Severn. Reversing the traditional verdicts, Ferenczi’s relationship to Freud is viewed as an enactment, whereas his relationship with Severn constitutes an authentic dialogue. Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rudnytsky, Peter L. T1 - The Other Side of the Story: Severn on Ferenczi and Mutual Analysis JF - P. Rudnytsky: Formulated Experiences. Hidden Realities and Emergent Meanings from Shakespeare to Fromm, London and New York (Routledge) 2019, pp. 117-136. N2 - This chapter presents the discovery that Elizabeth Severn’s 1933 book, The Discovery of the Self, contains disguised case histories of both herself and Ferenczi, and thereby constitutes a companion volume to Ferenczi’s Clinical Diary. From having been known primarily as >R.N.,< the most important patient in the Diary, Severn emerges as a subject and original contributor to psychoanalysis in her own right. Severn’s reception of Ferenczi’s legacy is compared to that of two of his other American patients, Izette de Forest and Clara Thompson, the latter of whom envied Severn for her closeness to Ferenczi. Multiple correspondences between the accounts of Ferenczi and Severn of their mutual analysis, as well as of their histories, are set forth. The significance of Strindberg’s play, The Father, for Ferenczi’s transference to Severn is examined. Ferenczi and Severn are shown to have been two deeply traumatized individuals who healed themselves by finding their spiritual counterparts in each other. Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rudnytsky, Peter L. T1 - Introduction >One Man Cannot Be the Same as Many<: Glimpsing New Paradigms through Old Keyholes JF - P. Rudnytsky: Formulated Experiences. Hidden Realities and Emergent Meanings from Shakespeare to Fromm, London and New York (Routledge) 2019, pp. 1-35. N2 - The introduction sets the stage for the ensuing chapters by meditating on the key phrases in the title, which are indebted to and inspired by the work of Donnel Stern as well as Philip Bromberg. Fromm is praised for his espousal of a humanistic psychoanalysis as well as his critique of authoritarianism, and his concept of >literary psychoanalysis< is introduced. Freud’s interpretation of Oedipus Rex is shown to be important as much for its >unformulated< assumption of a >hidden reality< theory of the mind as for his extrapolation of the idea of the Oedipus complex. The humanism of Fromm is contrasted with Sullivan’s claim that personal individuality is an >illusion<; Stern and Bromberg are critiqued for decoupling trauma from dissociation and for positing that these are normal conditions of the mind. It is argued that a forensic stance is warranted in hermeneutic endeavors and that it is possible to reconcile objectivist and constructivist epistemologies. Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rudnytsky, Peter L. T1 - >I Am Not What I Am<: Iago and Negative Transcendence JF - P. Rudnytsky: Formulated Experiences. Hidden Realities and Emergent Meanings from Shakespeare to Fromm, London and New York (Routledge) 2019, pp. 187-204. N2 - This chapter tackles the perennial critical conundrum of Iago’s motivation. Agreeing with Coleridge’s assessment of his >motiveless malignity,< it argues that all attempts to explain Iago’s character in terms of individual psychology prove inadequate and that he can be more satisfactorily understood by employing Fromm’s concept of >social character.< Iago is the prototype of early modern capitalist man who exhibits the >pathology of normalcy< and exemplifies three of Fromm’s four >unproductive orientations<—exploitative, hoarding, and marketing. Iago’s lack of a sense of self leads him to destroy rather than to create, and thus manifests the impulse for negative transcendence, or what Fromm terms necrophilia. As necrophilia is the most malignant form of the anal character, this analysis accounts for the pervasiveness of anal imagery in Othello, including in the speeches of the otherwise feeble Clown. Iago, neither devil nor human, is at once a product of his age and the quintessence of all those, from Caligula to Hitler, for whom madness is a way of life because they seek to transcend through destruction the limits of human existence. Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rudnytsky, Peter L. T1 - Did Freud Masturbate? The Folly of Elisabeth Roudinesco JF - P. Rudnytsky: Formulated Experiences. Hidden Realities and Emergent Meanings from Shakespeare to Fromm, London and New York (Routledge) 2019, pp. 205-214. N2 - This chapter takes to task Elisabeth Roudinesco’s biography, Freud in His Time and Others, for innumerable factual errors and, even worse, for the assumption that she is presenting the objective truth about Freud. Three traditions of Freud biography are delineated: the hagiographic, of which Roudinesco’s is the latest example, the Freud-bashing, and the revisionist, which sees Freud as having created something incontestably great but also as having been tragically flawed as a human being. Roudinesco’s errors range from the trivial, to the mildly compromising, to the inexcusable and disqualifying. With respect to Jung, Roudinesco is shown to rely on Deirdre Bair’s biography, which is itself unreliable, instead of on her own reading of the primary sources. Roudinesco’s true colors are displayed above all in her treatment of Freud’s sexuality, as when she asserts that he has been >accused< of masturbation, claims that an affair with his sister-in-law >doubtless never happened,< and alleges that Freud had a >horror of adultery.< The all-too-human Freud was very different from the lifeless icon worshiped by Roudinesco. Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Durkin, Kieran T1 - Erich Fromm and Theodor W. Adorno Reconsidered: A Case Study in Intellectual History JF - New German Critique 136, Vol. 46, No. 1, February 2019, pp. 103-126. Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Funk, Rainer T1 - Genug ist (nicht) genug. Streben nach Entgrenzung und Grenzen der Selbstoptimierung JF - Kinder- und Jugendlichen-Psychotherapie. Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse und Tiefenpsychologie, Frankfurt (Brandes & Apsel), No. 184, Vol. 50, (No. 4, 2019), pp. 545-559. N2 - Ein selbstbestimmtes Leben zu führen, das sich von keinen äußeren und inneren Vorgaben einschränken lässt, gleichzeitig aber hohe Ansprüche an Selbstoptimierung und Selbstverwirklichung zu realisieren versucht, zeichnet vermehrt das Leben von vor allem jungen Menschen aus, die therapeutische Hilfe suchen. Was bringt sie dazu, ihr Leben so einzurichten, dass sie sich mit Grenzen und Selbstbegrenzungen so schwer tun und sich nicht mit weniger begnügen können? Der folgende Beitrag fragt anhand der Psychoanalytischen Sozialpsychologie Erich Fromms nach den Ursachen für die Entwicklung eines neuen Sozialcharakters, der sich die digitale Technik und die elektronischen Medien zunutze macht, um selbstbestimmt, ungebunden und ohne Rücksicht auf Vorgaben und Maßgaben Wirklichkeit neu, anders und besser zu ‘schaffen und dabei vor der eigenen Persönlichkeit nicht Halt macht. Der Fokus der Ausführungen liegt dabei nicht auf den sich daraus ergebenden klinischen Fragen, sondern auf den pathogenen Auswirkungen dieser Sozialcharakterbildung in den Psychen der Vielen. Die Frage der Unersättlichkeit - des Nicht- genug-bekommen-Könnens — ist so alt wie die Menschheit. Sie wurde traditionell vor allem unter dem Begriff der Gier erörtert, und zwar einer Gier, bei der man trotz Befriedigung nicht satt wird. Dass man Hunger hat und deshalb eine Gier spürt, ist etwas sehr Natürliches; dass man die Gier befriedigt und sich dennoch unersättlich erlebt, verweist auf eine charakterologische Gier und bedarf einer psychologischen Erklärung. N2 - Adolescents trying to live both self-determined and self-optimized are often looking for analytical help. What are the triggers for struggling with self-limitation? This essay is looking for the answer to that question based on the psychoanalytical social psychology by Erich Fromm with its basic assumption of a new social character orientation that uses social media and digital devices to live free from any requirements in a new, better and different manner without stopping at its own personality. Not clinical questions, but pathogen effects of this new figure for the psyches of the mass are discussed. Insatiability is as old as mankind. Historically this has been di cussed as greed that can never be satisfied. That one is hungry and therefore feels greed is something very natural. If one satisfies greed and yet experiences oneself insatiably refers to a characterological greed and needs a psychological explanation. Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Funk, Rainer T1 - Liebe zum Leben - trotz allem! Zur Aktualität der Biophilie nach Erich Fromm JF - R. Daniel, J. Haberer, C. Neuen (Eds.), Lust auf Zukunft trotz Sorge und Zweifel, Ostfildern (Patmos) 2019, pp. 92-111. N2 - Anknüpfend an das Tagungsthema >Lust auf Zukunft trotz Sorge und Zweifel< wird versucht, von der Sozial-Psychoanalyse Erich Fromms her die Lust auf Zukunft mit Fromms Konzept der Biophilie zu begründen. Dabei wird die Lust auf Zukunft psychologisch als die dem menschlichen Leben inhärente primäre Tendenz begriffen, die konstruktiven Lebensmöglichkeiten zur Entfaltung zu bringen. Diese primäre Tendenz kann aber durch psychische Anpassungsleistungen an bestimmte wirtschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Erfordernisse geschwächt werden. Dies wird an den von Fromm analysierten Sozial-Charakterorientierungen sowie an dem vom Autor beschriebenen ich-orientierten Charakter verdeutlicht. Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Funk, Rainer T1 - Entgrenzung als mentale Neukonstruktion der Persönlichkeit JF - Faust Jahrbuch 5 (2014-2016). Goethes Faust als Protagonist der Entgrenzung - Befunde und Analysen, ed. by Marco Lehmann-Waffwenschmidt, Bielefeld (Aisthesis Verlag), 2019, pp. 99-114. Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Funk, Rainer T1 - Das medial Ich. Zur psychischen Neukonstruktion des Menschen JF - Fokus Beratung, Berlin (EKFuL), No. 34 (Mai 2019), pp. 72-81. Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Funk, Rainer T1 - Vom Haben zum Sein? [reprint of Funk_R_2016g] JF - Psychologie heute compact - Vom Glück des Weniger, Weinheim (Beltz-Verlag), No. 58, pp. 42-47. Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lamont, Michèle T1 - From ‘having’ to ‘being’: self-worth and the current crisis of American society JF - The British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 70 (No. 3, 2019), pp. 660-707. N2 - With growing inequality, the American dream is becoming less effective as a collective myth. With its focus on material success, competition and self-reliance, the intensified diffusion of neoliberal scripts of the self is leading the uppermiddle class toward a mental health crisis while the working class and lowincome groups do not have the resources needed to live the dream. African Americans, Latinos and undocumented immigrants, who are presumed to lack self-reliance, face more rigid boundaries. One possible way forward is broadening cultural membership by promoting new narratives of hope centered on a plurality of criteria of worth, ‘ordinary universalism’ and destigmatizing stigmatized groups. Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Langer, Phil T1 - Sozial- als Friedenspsychologie denken. Perspektiven einer notwendigen Aktualisierung eines Forschungsprogramms JF - C. Kirchhoff et al. (Eds.), Psychoanalytische denken. Sozial- und kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven, Gießen (Psychosozial-Verlag), 2019, pp. 69-119. Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lanwerd, Susanne T1 - Kultur und Religion. Eine Frage der Evidenz JF - C. Kirchhoff et al. (Eds.), Psychoanalytische denken. Sozial- und kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven, Gießen (Psychosozial-Verlag), 2019, pp. 121-142. Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Manco, Fabiana T1 - When separation is violence: History of a son of Camorra JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 1, 2019), pp. 055-066. N2 - This article intends to propose a basis for a reflection on how separation mechanisms, both intrapsychic and social, may, by a normal identification process, be comparable in traumatic situations to true forms of violence. According to the theories of Benedetti and Peciccia (1996), a symbiotic Self and a separate Self are continuously present, integrated development lines of the Self, even though they are never fully conscious. Conversely, in the structure of the psychotic Self, a deintegration is inferred between the symbiotic and the separate states of the Self, of which the patient is painstakingly conscious. In light of significant psychoanalytic theories relating to the anxiety of separation, we aim to interpret this symbiosis and separation through the history of Michele, a psychotic young man from a Camorrist family, who was currently hospitalized in a psychiatric facility. The article intends to investigate the separation imposed by the clan, and the even deeper one, inferred from the significant separations experienced within the family circle. Furthermore, we will also outline our therapeutic method and the use of progressive mirror drawing, a psychotherapeutic technique which can be used with patients suffering from different pathologies that compromise verbalization, such as psychosis. Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ma, Xue T1 - Analysis of Fromm's Sound Society Thoughts [弗洛姆健全社会思想探析] JF - Shanxi Youth [山西青年], No. 13 (2019), pp. 81-82. N2 - 二战后,在相对和平稳定的国际环境下,生产力得以迅速发展,经济状况得以迅速恢复,人们的物质生活条件得以迅速改善,西方社会进入平稳的发展时期。然而,西方社会新的发展状况带来的不仅仅是物质财富的积聚,与之伴随的是人们精神、道德状况与社会诸多方面的危机,呈现出>不健全<的社会状态。弗洛姆健全的社会思想对>不健全的社会<进行分析,指出西方社会中人的精神不健全,并提出>健全的社会<的蓝图。 N2 - After the Second World War, in a relatively peaceful and stable international environment, productivity was rapidly developed, economic conditions were quickly restored, people's material living conditions were rapidly improved, and Western society entered a period of steady development. However, the new development of Western society has brought about not only the accumulation of material wealth, but also the crisis of people's spiritual, moral and social aspects, showing a >unsound< social state. Fromm's sound social thought analyzes the >unsound society< and points out that the human spirit in Western society is not perfect and proposes a blueprint for >sound society.< [Automatic translation] Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rosenberger, Judith A1 - Feng, Han T1 - Trauma by omission: Treating complex attachment dynamics in a Chinese woman JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 3, 2019), pp. 180-186. N2 - This paper presents a case of >trauma by omission< as a product of the attachment process. The absence of intimate and specific recognition and response by the caretaker of a child can create, by their omission, a >freeze< version of the fight/flight/freeze trauma response. The frozen moments, then dissociated, can become confusion and paralysis at the cusp of adulthood. This state is illustrated in the case below of a 23-year-old Chinese woman being treated by a 29-year-old Chinese male psychoanalytic fellow. The role of cultural context in >omission< is highlighted regarding development and treatment, which is taking place in a Communist society with a recent violent history of extinguishing individuality, modifying how attachment and individuation are expressed. A relational/interpersonal treatment orientation is applied and advocated at this intersection of individual and social realities. This paper contributes to attachment theory by raising awareness of how its many forms and outcomes may or may not be deemed healthy and functional. Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Romanetto, Matheus T1 - Caracterologia social em Erich Fromm: Uma pré-história psicoanalítica JF - Teorias Críticas entre passado e presente. Serie Idéias 15, Campinas, Sao Paulo, 2019, pp. 173-193. Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Rudnytsky, Peter L. T1 - Formulated Experiences. Hidden Realities and Emergent Meanings from Shakespeare to Fromm (Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series Vol. 51), London and New York (Routledge) 2019, 238 pp. N2 - In Formulated Experiences, Peter L. Rudnytsky continues his quest for a >re-vision< of psychoanalysis by coupling his revival of the unjustly neglected figure of Erich Fromm with his latest groundbreaking research on Ferenczi and Groddeck. Committed at once to a humanistic and to a literary psychoanalysis, Rudnytsky explores the subjective roots of creativity and critiques the authoritarianism that has been a tragic aspect of Freud’s legacy.Through his clinically informed interpretations he brings out both >hidden realities< and >emergent meanings< of the texts and authors he examines, including Shakespeare’s Othello and Macbeth, as well as Milton’s Paradise Lost. A preeminent scholar of the history and theory of psychoanalysis, Rudnytsky displays an interdisciplinary expertise that makes Formulated Experiences truly sui generis and unlike any existing book. Bridging the artificial divide between the academic and clinical worlds, his eloquent championing of the interpersonal and relational traditions will captivate contemporary psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, while his insightful close readings provide a model for psychoanalytic literary critics. Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Scherer, Irene A1 - Schröter, Welf T1 - Der künstliche Mensch? – Menschenbilder im 21. Jahrhundert. Editorial JF - Latenz - Journal für Philosophie und Gesellschaft, Vol. 4: Der künstliche Mensch, Mössingen (Talheimer Verlag) 2010, pp. 7-12. Y1 - 2019 ER -