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Excursus I - The Theoretical Foundations of Horkheimer’s Split with Erich Fromm in the Late 1930s
(2011)
Creative dialogue
(2011)
This article examines the ultramodern ethical crisis at the nexus of madness, citizenship, and social justice. To investigate this crisis, the article is divided into four substantive sections. The first section reviews the contributions of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. Their collective insights provide an incomplete depiction of ultramodernity’s self/society mutuality. The second section comments selectively on the critical social theory of Lacan, Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, and Fromm. This commentary demonstrates how the criminological shadow is sustained coproductively (via the organization of cosmopolitanism) and dialectically (via the self/society duality). The third section proposes several provisional ways of integrating these critical theories as a means of re-conceptualizing the ethic of the criminological shadow. The fourth section applies these new, integrated models to suggest a strategy for overcoming the harm coproduced by the ethic of the criminological shadow within the realm of madness, citizenship, and social justice.
The Study of Psychic Trauma
(2011)
Erich Fromm
(2011)
Introduction
(2011)
Aspects of Psychodynamic Neuropsychiatry III: Magic Spells, the Placebo Effect, and Neurobiology
(2011)
Grace under fire
(2011)
This article aims to reflect on the possible contributions of psychoanalysis in relation to severely disturbed patients by means of the presentation of a clinical case. Beginning with the family history, the evolutionary process of the symptoms and identification movements of the patient are analysed. The observation of the transference dynamics is emphasised, showing how the desire of the analyst and his privileged listening will allow the patient some level of possible subjective structure.
This article offers a sympathetic appraisal of Erich Fromm’s concept of narcissism as it relates to the emergence, sustenance, and resolution of authoritarian violence. The discussion is first placed within the methodological debate over the analytic operations that are required for an adequate understanding of authoritarian violence, explaining why a psychoanalytic perspective is necessary. The focus then shifts to Fromm’s take on the Freudian concept of narcissism, before proceeding to explore in some depth his account of the symbolic mechanisms and contextual climate that must combine in practice in order for narcissistic energies to be channeled into authoritarianism and violence. Attention in this regard is paid both to the populace and governing elites. The article concludes with a short exposition of Fromm’s notion of benign narcissism, from its specific content to the conditions of its possibility.
Erich FROMM always considered that the psychoanalytic basis of his ideas had its roots in Freud's ideas, but he also pointed out by means of a number of reasons, which were the product of his experience as a clinic and researcher of the man-society relation, that Freud's concept's and theories were too narrow for understanding some essential human aspects. For the purpose of widening and going deep into what he considered the essence of Freud's ideas and of the psychoanalysis in general, Erich FROMM made what he called a >dialectic revision of the psychoanalysis<, for which he used his own psychoanalytic experience and the ideas of prominent men in the different areas of science and knowledge. Among the most important reasons for undertaking his theoretical and technic revision of psychoanalysis are Marx' ideas and two of the great religions traditions of the world. In this work, the moments and the way in which the great religions traditions: judaism and budism, influenced the proposal of Erich FROMM for developing a radical humanistic psychoanalysis are shown.
Psychoanalysis.
(2011)
Erich Fromm
(2011)
I shall start by showing Erich Fromm’s particular social psychological approach to the understanding of man. In the main part, a new character type is presented that can be observed particularly in highly industrialized countries where people are devoted to the so-called postmodern way of life. Finally, I shall interpret the meaning of an individual’s deep longing for constructing life and reality anew and without any limitations resp. to participate in those enacted life styles that establish a feeling of belonging to those fabricated realities. This will enable me to ask about such an individual’s unconscious feelings and beliefs and his or her social and personal functioning.
The Great Escape: World War II, Neo-Freudianism, and the Origins of U.S. Psychocultural Analysis
(2011)
Psycho-cultural analysis stands as a signal accomplishment of the 1930s U.S. assimilation of European refugee-intellectuals. Scholars in the U.S. had been moving toward a kind of psycho-cultural analysis well in advance of the Great Migration – the U.S. was not an intellectual vacuum or wasteland – nevertheless, it was through their interdisciplinary collaboration, fueled by the specter of war, that these international peers stimulated one of the most wide-ranging, dynamic, and productive exchanges of ideas of the century. Through the lens of Erich Fromm's >Escape from Freedom<, this article explores psycho-culturalism's emergence in the interstices between cultures, nations, ideas, and disciplines – between Europeans and Americans, psychoanalysts and social scientists.
Patients Who Stay
(2011)
Erich Fromm on Freedom
(2011)
In this paper the writer examines Fromm’s theory of freedom in three stages: pre-freedom, negative freedom and positive freedom in his works especially in >The Fear of Freedom< or >The Escape of Freedom<. The writer discusses Fromm's ideas about three concepts and the distinction between pre-freedom, negative freedom and positive freedom. It seems that Fromm’s conception of positive freedom as the rational pursuit of self-interest translates into an idea of independence or opposite pre-freedom in his social philosophy; moreover, Fromm's idea of negative freedom is not just the absence of constraints, since the word >negative< has a twofold aspect. However, his idea of positive freedom involves a certain degree of independence from other people as an individual; in other words, the maximization of everyone's independence from other people is the very important core of positive freedom for Fromm in his works. In short, it can be clearly seen in Fromm’s conception that positive freedom is, however, constructed independently from his doctrine: it is built on the assumption of the process of growth in human freedom.
Review Gary Small and Gigi Vorgan: iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modem Mind
(2011)
Picasso according to Freud
(2011)