Marble men and maidens, the necrophilous people of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A psychoanalytic approach in terms of Erich Fromm

  • Contends that from its inception, interpersonal psychoanalysis was both a movement away from libido theory and its biological metaphors and a rejection of the orthodoxy of the European belief system. Its development coincided with the adaptive point of view growing throughout society and reflected in the ego psychology of Anna Freud and H. Hartman and the interpersonal theories of H. S. Sullivan, E. FROMM, C. M. Thompson, F. FROMM-Reichmann, and E. G. Schactel. From a preoccupation with frustration and trauma, the psychoanalytic understanding of human dynamics has moved to a focus on the relationship between inner and outer reality and an emphasis on a functional, adaptive, rational, and organismic whole. The development of the interpersonal tradition has not been linear, but, rather a continually shifting series of perspectives that both absorb and depart from those that came before. The modern perspective is that of Freud, Sullivan, and others who have helped shape it.

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Author:Frederik L. Rusch
Parent Title (English):Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, Vol. 3 (No. 1-2, 1982), pp. 28-40.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:1982
Release Date:2014/01/28
Format:PDF-scan to download
IdNo:Rusch_F_L_1982
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Articles / Artikel
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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