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Este artículo trata de la construcción de una variante del carácter cultural con base en la teoría de las necesidades psicológicas de Erich Fromm y en el carácter social por él desarrollado. Se describen algunas diferencias entre carácter y personalidad y, luego de revisar brevemente la teoría frommiana sobre el tema, se mencionan los fundamentos teóricos y conceptuales necesarios para la elaboración del carácter cultural. Este será una herramienta para estudiar las necesidades psicoculturales de algunos grupos étnicos en Chiapas.
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?
Traumatic social violence provokes adaptive transubjective phenomena of banalization, familiarity and obviousness, which can be understood as a 'defence through ambiguity' that leads to an 'adaptation to whatsoever'. In a state of ambiguity there is numbing of critical thinking and of the alarm mechanisms. During the psychoanalytic process with survivors of social violence (torture, etc.) we can find a secret refusal of the external alienating situation in the intrapsychic representation of an 'object to be saved', an object of concern. In this paper, Ferenczi's concept of 'identification with the aggressor' (introjection of the culpability of the abuser on the child's subjectivity) is compared with this clinical experience. We try to understand and challenge through comprehension and insight the subjective consequences of traumatic social violence, in the three spaces of subjectivity (intra-, inter-, trans-) considering psychic dynamics in relation to reality contexts.
In this commentary on Arnold Rothstein's >Compromise Formation Theory: An Intersubjective Dimension,< I address some of the limitations of compromise formation theory in addressing issues of intersubjectivity. Namely, compromise formation theory does not address intersubjectivity as a principal motivation it takes up mutual regulation but not mutual recognition or other aspects of intersubjectivity it does not place the intersubjective matrix at the center of clinical psychoanalytic understanding and it does not sufficiently examine clinical concerns regarding the patient's conflicts regarding intersubjective contact with the analyst. I then discuss Rothstein's clinical vignette in an effort to provide an alternative understanding of the therapeutic action of Rothstein's clinical interventions. Drawing on the work of the late Lloyd Silverman, I present an intersubjective explanation that highlights the analyst's compassionate understanding of the patient's conflicts and acceptance of the pleasure in the patient's impulses, achieved through the analyst's own personal and subjective struggles.
This article examines a debate concerning the exegesis of the story of the garden of Eden and the tree of knowledge, as told in Genesis. Two contradictory interpretations of the garden narrative are examined, the first as the story is elucidated by the psychoanalyst and social theorist Erich Fromm and the alternative interpretation by the Talmudic scholar and philosopher Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik. This article compares and contrasts their exegeses and the respective implications of each view. The controversy, which has profound implications, reflects differences in world views concerning the good life, autonomy and relatedness, assertion and submission, will and surrender, obedience and rebellion, independence and interdependence, subjectivity and intersubjectivity. Links are drawn to a variety of contemporary psychoanalytic theories, developments, and controversies.
This paper proposes that psychoanalytic psychotherapy can be a helpful form of treatment for certain autistic children. Some of the misconceptions surrounding this kind of treatment are discussed. The literature identifying a particular sub-group of autistic children is then reviewed and the characteristics of this group, and the relationship of their difficulties to early trauma, are described. Using clinical material from work with a child who probably fell within this sub-group, and who had very marked autistic features, the paper illustrates the importance of the therapist taking an active role in the therapy and how this helped the child to emerge from his withdrawn state. Particular emphasis is placed on the importance of introducing themes of aggression, and of this being done in a playful way. The impact of trauma on children's development, with particular reference to the acquisition of language, is considered. The role of sibling rivalry as a factor is emphasised.
Erich Fromm (1900–1980)
(2005)
The interdisciplinary journal Psychiatry, founded in 1938 by the psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan, provided a remarkable interdisciplinary forum for such outstanding social scientists as Edward Sapir, Harold Lasswell, Ruth Benedict, Gregory Bateson, Ashley Montague, Lev Vygotsky, Erich Fromm, Erving Goffman, A. H. Maslow, and Robert Merton. The journal sought an interdisciplinary synthesis concerning personality, problems of living, and community mental health. Almost all of the major contributors to the early years of the journal drew strongly on the pragmatic tradition. In that tradition, Sullivan saw language shaping the development of personality and the interactions that constitute social life. Major themes of articles in the journal included the relation of personality of culture, the relation of the political order to the psychic order, propaganda and the creation of public and private meaning, racial and gender issues, and social arrangements influencing mental health. While pursuing the many dimensions of being human revealed by the different social sciences, the journal never developed an integrative theory to create a coherence among the many thematic strands and disciplinary perspectives on its pages. The journal also never developed an adequate account of how language served a central role in mediating personality development and social interactions. With the added theoretical and methodological tools now at our disposal we may be in a position to advance the unfinished project proposed by this journal.
This paper is an effort to describe and express and the tension between the observing mind and the >wisdom mind,< which has its taproots in the deep and unformulated experience of connectedness. Nominally about the process of writing as a psychoanalyst, it is more like my personal >Credo< in relation to the work of psychoanalysis, the work of writing, and the work of living with contradictions – life. In it I try to bring together disparate reflections, to illustrate in the writing itself the process of making >many into one.< Because so much of this essay relates to themes in Mannie Ghent's work, including his work on surrender and his >Credo,< it seemed to be appropriate to offer it to readers of this issue dedicated to his memory.
The author discusses Arnold Rothstein's paper >Compromise Formation Theory: An Intersubjective Dimension< and challenges his definition of intersubjectivity. She offers a perspective in which the import of intersubjectivity theory is less to dissolve the notion of objectivity than to grasp processes of mutual engagement, regulation, and recognition. While it is true that the recognition that the analyst is also a subject and therefore does not have exclusive knowledge is an important shift in the psychoanalytic paradigm, the author suggests that the intersubjective is far more encompassing than this. Intersubjective theory emphasizes the active creation of consensus or conflict about reality rather than merely the recognition that the analyst's perspective on reality is subjective. This cocreation produces a different emotional experience of connection, not merely a change in the quality of insight. Finally, Rothstein's case illustrates how he responds to the need for recognition and regulation. He shows us how focusing on the procedural allowed him to make an intersubjective shift, not simply an intrapsychic interpretation of compromise formation.
Following a thorough study of the Clinical Diary (1932), the author aims to put forward Sándor Ferenczi's theoretical discoveries, which allow him to settle a very advanced clinical consideration. The main parameters of this consideration foreshadow those that, in the following decades, were to be at the centre of some of the most significant developments in psychoanalysis, in particular those of M. Klein, W. R. Bion and D. W. Winnicott.
Locating Culture in the Psychic Field: Transference and Countertransference as Cultural Products.
(2005)
Community practice on (and off) the couch. Response to commentary by Dr Mario Rendon, T55918-20.
(2005)
This paper aims to consider the signs of Judaism in Psychoanalysis, grounded in the way Freud practiced and demonstrated his Jewishness, in the context of the Viennese Diaspora, from his exile in London until the end of his life and conclusion of his work. Considering what the founder of psychoanalysis has recognized in Judaism as important to his affective and intellectual education, according to his own statements, it tries to demonstrate that the >roots< of errantry, nomadism and exile which single out the history of Jewish people, resound as an echo in the Freudian discovery. Our hypothesis is that what makes up the Jewishness of Freud himself, causing him to exile himself from the Jewish religious majority, as well as the identifications given by other people about his Jewish circumstance, was manifested together with the invention of Psychoanalysis, the major expression of his making up a Jewish devenir.
In. Reply to Altman's and Schellekes's questions and discussion, the author explores in more depth his own theoretical-technical point of view in order to clarify – chiefly in the light of a modern application of Ferenczi's and Heimann's way of thinking – the rationale for the selection of clinical facts in his paper.
Marginality is an important concept in the history of science, though it is often used in a manner that presumes marginality to be a static designation. We contend that the dynamics of marginality are crucial to the history of psychoanalysis, a discipline that has moved between dominant and marginal positions. We address psychoanalytic marginality via three specific >cases<: the marginalization among Freud and his followers when psychoanalysis was an emergent discipline; the marginality trope in Erich Fromm's popular psychoanalytic writing when psychoanalysis was orthodoxy in American academic psychiatry; and the rhetorical marginality of psychoanalysis in Sweden as psychoanalysis entered a decline within psychiatry. Our aim is to show that marginalization and self-marginalization serve interpersonal, social, and professional strategies. (© 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.)
Images of Trauma: Pain, Recognition, and Disproval in the Works of Frida Kahlo and Francis Bacon
(2005)
L’inconscient politique
(2005)
Review Lorna Smith Benjamin: Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy: Promoting Change in Nonresponders
(2005)
Bucci's model of emotional communication, developed in the context of her theory of multiple coding and the referential process, is applied to Knoblauch's microanalytic report of his experience of the patient and himself and their interactions during a single session of an ongoing treatment. The referential process is a bidirectional function connecting the diverse sensory, somatic, and motoric representations of the subsymbolic system with imagery and words. The process operates partially and to varying degrees within both participants in the case presented here, the dissociation among systems is severe, and emotional communication within the dyad occurs at first primarily in subsymbolic, bodily forms. Where gaps in the referential process exist for the patient, the analyst's own experience and associations operate to evoke new connections for her we see this process in moment-by-moment glimpses of the analyst's experience and his interactions with the patient. Gaps in the reader's knowledge, and possibly the analyst's knowledge, of the patient are discussed.
Secret Pleasures: A Discussion of Maroda's >Legitimate Gratification of the Analyst's Needs<.
(2005)
Relational perspectives on the nature of self and the unconscious have transformed how we can understand addictions and substance use problems. Addictions have received little attention in the contemporary literature and therapeutic approaches outside of psychoanalysis have been skeptical of psychoanalytic approaches. It is my contention that viewing substance use problems through the lens of a relational/multiple self-state model offers new clinical possibilities resulting in greater success in treating these patients. In this model, addictive behavior is seen as embedded in dissociated self-states. Therapy focuses on helping the patient to move from dissociation to a true multiplicity and a decreased dependence on substances.
Burton's response to discussions by Krystal and Khantzian addresses the manifestation and engagement of aspects of bad objects in addictions treatment and acknowledges the broader relationship between compulsive behaviors and dissociation. In addition, Burton presents thoughts on cross-disciplinary communication and an emergent relational metapsychology and its potential impact across schools of psychotherapy.
埃希里•弗洛姆(Erich.fromm,1900—1980年)是20世纪西方著名的社会心理学家、人道主义伦理学家和法兰克福学派的重要代表之一。他丰富的著作和研究给人类文化所展示的东西却远远超出了心理学和伦理学的领域,几乎涵盖了从宏观的社会经济、政治、文化到微观的个人心理、行为、情感、品格、气质特性等绝大部分社会人文科学主题。他是弗洛伊德精神分析学理论的卓越阐释者,也是这一具有世纪性意义的心理学成果的当代发展者,因此,他获得了作为“美国新精神分析学派领袖”的学术地位。而力图把马克思主义的理论精髓与弗洛伊德的心理学统一起来,创立新的社会人学和人的深层心理学。他因而又获得了“精神分析学的马克思主义”的称号。在综合弗洛伊德的精神分析理论与马克思学说的基础上,弗洛姆建构了他的人道主义伦理学体系。爱是弗洛姆人道主义伦理学体系的核心概念。在他的《爱的艺术》、《为自己的人》、《健全的社会》、《逃避自由》、《说爱》等著作中都阐释了有关爱的一系列理论问题。主要有关于爱的根源、爱的本质、目的、作用、爱的组成要素和各种表现形式以及爱的实践等问题的探讨。弗洛姆的爱的理论在西方伦理学史上可谓是独树一帜。弗洛姆是在批判和继承抽象人性论的基础上来阐述他的爱的理论,与传统的爱的理论相比,他的爱的理论内涵更为丰富,更为深刻。首先,他认为爱是对人类生存问题的解答,第一次将爱的问题纳入人类生存领域;其次,他认为爱的本质是给予,揭示了爱的深刻内涵;最后,他认为,爱并非是我们通常所认为的发生在异性之间的情感,而是一门融知识、力量、责任、关心于一体的人生艺术,这便为我们提供了爱的方法论。弗洛姆以爱为核心的人道主义伦理学理论是十分丰富和系统的。通过对人性和自由的探讨,他为人道主义伦理学体系重新建立了完整的人学理论基础,弗洛姆的社会品格学说的提出,不单是现代心理学史上的一项崭新成果,更重要的是为其伦理学建立了一种新的社会心理学方法论。这无疑是弗洛姆对现代伦理学理论发展的
What Grounds Creativity?
(2005)
Thinking Differently Principles of Process in Living Systems and the Specificity of Being Known
(2005)
This paper begins an examination of the complex relationship between psychoanalysis and Buddhist psychology and the practice of meditation. It describes in a series of episodes the ordeal of one patient during a Buddhist meditation retreat. She is asked during the course of the teachings to confront her own inevitable death, and in so doing finds herself simultaneously enduring the agony of a psychic death or collapse originating in earlier trauma. The narrative and subsequent discussion, using the language of psychoanalysis, aim to capture the conflictual yet generative aspects of the interplay between these two invaluable disciplines.
Following Fromm's (1976) and Rand's (1993) theory, a scale of 51 items on attitudes towards the Being, Doing and Having >Modes of Existence< has been constructed (Reichenberg 1996). Our objectives are two-fold: first, an examination, in parallel, of the validity of the scale with two methods: Factor Analysis and Facet Theory. And second, a shortening of the scale from 51 questions to a more compact one. The present article is based on empirical data gathered from 386 female teachers, students and counselors in college education departments in Israel in 1995 and 1997.
What is a selfobject?
(2005)
This discussion examines the theme of time as it is experienced by someone who has suffered a loss, in an attempt to understand and differentiate certain contrasts in these authors' approaches to theory and technique. The discussant argues that the frame is a vital tool in helping the analyst to gain access to the differential interplay between awareness of mortality and our flight from it. Finally, the discussant asks whether certain prevalent relational themes, such as mutuality, empathy, and the ubiquity of enactments, have contributed to an atmosphere in which attention to the frame can recede.
Risto Fried in Memoriam
(2005)
An assumption made in this paper and explored for its clinical implications is that an act of chronic drug use often marks or serves to implement an underlying omnipotent self-state. Psychoanalytic work with substance users, as compared with other approaches, trains attention on these omnipotent states and makes use of the transferential exchange as a therapeutic tool. States of omnipotence are particularly examined here in the context of recent attention to dissociation as an organizing force in the personality, and in the configuration of the transference – countertransference of the treatment relationship. A case illustration is used to apply current thinking on dissociative and projective processes, and their role in enactment in the therapeutic exchange, to illuminate the frequent interplay of omnipotence and helplessness in analytic work with substance-using and other patients.