Toward the Coexistence of Effort and Lack: Commentary on Paper by Cynthia Dyess and Tim Dean

  • I argue that on both the small-scale level of the interpersonal relationship, and the large-scale level of society, the manic defense makes it difficult to care about others, and so militates against a sense of social responsibility. I address four basic questions: what is the nature of social responsibility? What is the nature of the manic defense? How does the manic defense interfere with the potential for social responsibility? And, on a more general level, what are the issues with respect to methodology for efforts such as this one to link psychoanalysis and social theory?

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Author:Neil Altman
Parent Title (English):Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 321-346.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2005
Release Date:2017/11/20
Format:xerox upon request / Fotokopie auf Anfrage
IdNo:Altman_N_2005
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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