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Revisiting Fromm’s Passions as Presaging Contemporary Views of Affect and Dissociation

  • Fromm viewed intrapsychic dynamic processes as having their origin in a generalized organic life force that gets transformed into psychic energy called passions. He is acknowledged as one of the most original, creative writers of the mid-20th century whose fertile mind and humanistic sensibilities synthesized the domains of psychoanalysis, social philosophy, and politics. His unyielding belief that the development of the individual psyche is inseparable from its two-way interaction with a lived relational and cultural context presaged the evolution of the relational perspective in psychoanalysis, and his concept of passions foreshadowed contemporary neuroscientific theories of affect and its role in intrapsychic life and self-identity formation. Damasio’s theory of emotions is reviewed as a specific example of the current revamping of psychoanalytic theory as bottom-up information processing, that is, the integrating and synthesyzing of affective experience and memory (preverbal mentalization) as fueling the creation of a narrative self. Fromm’s discussions of dissociation are linked both to Damasio’s core self experiences and to Bromberg’s conceptualization of psychoanalysis of dissociative experience as a process of >standing in the spaces.< And finally, Fromm’s descriptions of psychoanalysis as an art are linked to Schon’s action-oriented theory of practical knowledge.

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Author:V. Harrell
Parent Title (English):Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 30 (No. 2, 2002), pp. 277-291.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2002
Release Date:2012/12/13
Format:PDF-file upon request / PDF-Datei auf Anfrage
IdNo:Harrell_V_2002
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Articles / Artikel
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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