Erich Fromms >Kunst des Liebens<: Kann man lieben >können<? Wie man aus Platitüden einen Best-Seller macht [Erich Fromm's The Art of Loving or how to make a bestseller out of platitudes,

  • Erich Fromm was one of the founders of the William Alanson White Institute in New York City and an important contributor to the development of the interpersonal approach to psychoanalysis. Many of Fromm's ideas about psychoanalysis have found their way into the mainstream of analytic thinking. Much of what he taught in supervision and in his lectures had to do with the role of the analyst, the analyst's use of himself in the analytic process and the necessity that the analyst experience what his patient is experiencing. From did not necessarily use terms like projective identification but his understanding presaged much of what analysts talk about today. Fromm himself did not write much about clinical practice. And while he repeatedly expressed his respect for Freud he was explicit in his disagreements. Fromm rejected the notion of the analyst as a blank mirror. Instead, analysis re-quires a passionate wish for truth both in the analysand and the analyst. Fromm calls this passion biophilic, implying that the unconscious does not only harbor de-structive drives that need to be tamed; it also harbors creative drives which, while also irrational, are constructive and need be liberated through the analysis.

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Author:Steffen Graefe
Parent Title (German):Psychologie heute, Vol. 12 (No. 7, 1985), pp. 48-51.
Document Type:Articles
Language:German
Year of first Publication:1985
Release Date:2014/01/28
Format:PDF-scan to download
IdNo:Graefe_S_1985
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Articles / Artikel
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
Licence (German):free access / direkt zugänglich
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