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Today, there are two ways of conceiving psychoanalysis, a classical one focused on the search for truth within the internal world of the patient, and a contemporary one perceiving the patient–therapist relationship as the axis of exploration. Rorty's criterion, which divides disciplines into either truth-based or solidarity-based, may be applied to this dichotomy. These conflicting positions come from two different historical periods: the Enlightenment and the contemporary world. They inhabit a sterile environment without theoretical discussion or comparison. The Renaissance relocated man at the centre of creation and urged him to seek encounters with others as well as with the truth concealed in nature. Possibly, these elements of truth and solidarity, initially designed as complementary, integrative, and nonconflicting, can be found in the work of some psychoanalysts, specifically in Otto Kernberg's proposals. Kernberg makes a creative integration of object relations theory, especially in its Kleinian approach, and ego psychology. In addition, Kernberg's consideration of affects as key elements of the human's internal world reflects a third psychoanalytical >way,< exposing the centrality of relational experiences from the earliest stages of life, alongside constitutional drive forces that link us to our biological make-up and determine much of our inner world and behaviour.
Madness is a crucial theme in the Beasts’ literature and life. This article distinguishes between individual and social madness and shows their influence on the Beats, using the ideas of Erich Fromm, Michel Foucault and many others and also using the Beats’ own works and ideas. The focus is of course more on Burroughs, Ginsberg, and Kerouac. The Beats did not adjust themselves to society because they believed that American society was so irrational and mad that it brutally suppressed their individuality, repressed their natural desires, and forced them to consider themselves mad just because of lack of adjustment. As opposed to those who regard lack of adjustment as the cause of individual madness, there are others who enunciate that the individual is not to blame but society which is inattentive to individuals’ potentialities and does not adjust itself to their needs and aspirations.
This article is the third in a series of four articles scheduled for publication in this journal. In the first article (Kapustin, 2015a) I proposed a description of a new so-called existential criterion of normal and abnormal personality that is implicitly present in the works of Erich Fromm. According to this criterion, normal and abnormal personalities are determined, first, by special features of the content of their position regarding existential dichotomies that are natural to human beings and, second, by particular aspects of the formation of this position. Such dichotomies, entitatively existent in all human life, are inherent, two-alternative contradictions. The position of a normal personality in its content orients a person toward a contradictious predetermination of life in the form of existential dichotomies and necessitates a search for compromise in resolving these dichotomies. This position is created on a rational basis with the person’s active participation. The position of an abnormal personality in its content subjectively denies a contradictious predetermination of life in the form of existential dichotomies and orients a person toward a consistent, noncompetitive, and, as a consequence, one-sided way of life that doesn’t include self-determination. This position is imposed by other people on an irrational basis. Abnormality of personality interpreted like that is one of the most important factors influencing the development of various kinds of psychological problems and mental disorders – primarily, neurosis. In the second article (Kapustin, 2015b) I showed that this criterion is also implicitly present in the personality theories of Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler, although in more specific cases. In the current work I prove that this criterion is also present in the personality theories of Carl Jung and Carl Rogers, where it is implicitly stated in a more specific way. In the final article I will show that this criterion is also implicitly present in the personality theory of Viktor Frankl.
Veränderungen in der kapitalistischen Produktionsweise in den westlichen Industrie-gesellschaften seit den 1920er Jahren lassen sich grob als Wechsel vom Industrieka-pitalismus zum Konsumkapitalismus beschreiben. Der Wechsel fällt in eine Zeit, in der in und außerhalb der sozialistischen Bewegung Zweifel an dem Fortbestehen eines revolutionären Subjekts formuliert wurden. Auch Fromms Beitrag zum Verhältnis von Psychoanalyse und Marxismus war von dieser Frage bestimmt. In der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts traten die veränderten Produktions- und Arbeitsbedingungen mit ihren Folgen für die Lebensweise deutlich in den Vordergrund. Das Doppelgesicht des Konsumkapitalismus zeigte sich in einem ungeheuren Zuwachs des Güterwohlstands auf der Grundlage der Massenproduktion und zugleich in sich zuspitzenden Formen von Verelendung, Armut und Unbehagen. Die Transformation des Konsumkapitalis-mus hin zu einer menschlichen Gesellschaftsform verlangt nach einer Lösung sowohl sozialer Probleme (Wohlstandsverteilung) als auch ökologischer Probleme (Ressour-cennutzung).
Praca ma na celu porównanie koncepcji filozoficznych Ericha Fromma i Michela Foucaulta. W szczególności, rozważana jest w niej refleksja obu myślicieli nad XX-wiecznymi totalitaryzmami, ich stosunek do teo¬rii Marksa i Freuda oraz problem ujęcia historii w ich pracach. Z analizy tej wyłaniają się dwie odmienne hermeneutyki w ramach teorii krytycz¬nej. Jedna nakierowana na emancypację w imię materialistycznej na¬tury ludzkiej (Fromm), druga natomiast na emancypację od >człowieka< (Foucault). Pomimo iż obie koncepcje są odmienne, nie są przeciwstaw¬ne. Filozofia Fromma pozwala dostrzec ograniczenia filozofii Foucaulta i odwrotnie.
To resurrect and revalorize the tradition of the early Frankfurt School, whose of Marxist-Hegelian dialectical approach to understanding the societal conditions of its emergence -- post WWI Germany, the rise of fascism, New Deal politics, the defeat of fascism and the subsequent rise of consumer society – remains relevant to studying present circumstances, stressing the cultural dimension of capitalism, the proliferation of alienation, ideology and mass media, and, finally, the nature of the society-character/subjectivity nexus.
Debussy attempted to conceal the stresses of his early life: his father leaving to fight in the Franco-Prussian War, his younger siblings being sent to live with an aunt, and Debussy remaining alone with his mother. His early-discovered musical talent provided him with a sense of continuity throughout his life. However, he felt his training at the Paris Conservatoire to be restrictive and rebelled against it in the musical style he developed. Debussy’s opera Pelléas et Mélisande gave him an opportunity to creatively depict these thwarted passions and his aversion to restriction.
Wśród niezliczonych intelektualnych zainteresowań Ericha Fromma znalazło się także miejsce dla przewidywań dotyczących formy, jaką przy¬bierze społeczeństwo w niedalekiej przyszłości. Dziś, gdy ponad dekadę temu weszliśmy w XXIwiek, możemy spróbować sprawdzić, czy From¬mowska wizja przyszłości zmaterializowała się. Czy udało się uniknąć zagrożeń, przed jakimi ostrzegał nas filozof pięćdziesiąt lat temu. Warto przy tym zaznaczyć, że nasza próba sprawdzenia tego może okazać się nawet więcej niż nieudana, gdyż, jak zauważył Fromm, większość z nas nie zdaje sobie sprawy z tego, w jakim kierunku zmierza społeczeństwo i >… natrafiamy na poważną trudność, gdy przychodzi nam określić, w którym dokładnie punkcie historii …znajdujemy się obecnie<. Mimo to, postaram się jednak zmierzyć z zarysowanym przeze mnie wyżej za¬daniem, stawiając sobie za cel próbę odpowiedzi na pytanie, jak bardzo współczesne społeczeństwo przypomina to, przed którym >ostrzegał< nas Fromm, oraz czy jego recepty dotyczące >naprawy<, czy też >uleczenia< społeczeństwa wciąż mogą okazać się warte naszej uwagi. Czy faktycznie staliśmy się członkami >odczłowieczonego społeczeństwa<?
This paper presents the four-year forensic outpatient treatment of a male patient in his mid-30s who was diagnosed with a schizoaffective disorder and had previously been held on unlimited detention due to several assaults. At the beginning, several coercive measures had to be taken. Over time, both the therapeutic alliance and the patient's psychic structure improved remarkably. The patient explained at the end of therapy that, despite being forced into treatment, he also felt recognized and held while he had been in deep distress. Several explanations of how coercion and the therapeutic process may correlate are discussed: essentially, the complex and dialectical relationships between inner and outer reality, therapeutic space, and social structures are reflected. Cautiously but consistently introducing outer reality as well as validating the patient's realistic perceptions contributed to strengthening his ego functions.
Celem artykułu jest wskazanie miejsca i znaczenia w filozofii Ericha Fromma obecnych w jego pracach figur czasu mesjańskiego i rytuału sza¬batu. Powiązane ze sobą dają się odczytać jako integralna część koncepcji Fromma, prowadząca w jego myśli do pedagogii azylu – posiadającego istotny potencjał emancypacyjny i edukacyjny rozwiązania problemu alienacji współczesnego człowieka.
Das neue Habenwollen
(2016)
Die Fähigkeit zu lieben ist von grundlegender Bedeutung für den Menschen, für seine Gesundheit, für sein Glück und für ein Leben in Fülle. Deshalb ist es von großem Wert, die Fähigkeit sich selbst, seine Mitmenschen und Gott zu lieben, zu entdecken, zu entwickeln und zu leben. Dies haben bereits verschiedene Philosophen und Theologen erkannt. Renate Jost de Moraes hat die Methode ADI/TIP entwickelt, die dem Menschen hilft, den Kern seiner Existenz wiederzufinden, seine ursprüngliche Persönlichkeit, seine Gesundheit, sein Gleichgewicht, den Sinn des Lebens und die Offenheit für die Liebe. Die Entdeckung der Fähigkeit zu lieben auf der noologischen (von gr. >noos< = Denken Geist), Ebene ist sehr befreiend. Die erfolgreiche Behandlung mittels ADI/TIP vieler Patienten unterstreicht diese Erkenntnis. Dabei ist der Lösungsweg bei jeder Person unterschiedlich, da jede Person und jede Situation einzigartig ist. Die Erkenntnis der absoluten Liebe (Licht, Gott), die Entdeckung unendlich geliebt zu sein und die Entwicklung der Fähigkeit, sich selbst, seine Mitmenschen und Gott zu lieben, ist jedoch von universeller Bedeutung.
Erich Fromm hat sich zeitlebens darum bemüht, kritische Gesellschaftstheorie – er gehörte zum frühen Kreis um Horkheimer – mit einer nicht auf Anpassung und Kon-formismus gerichteten Psychoanalyse zu verbinden. In seinem Konzept des Sozial- oder Gesellschafts-Charakters suchte er Elemente der Marxschen und der Freudschen Theorie miteinander zu verknüpfen. Später gewannen vor allem die Marxschen Frühschriften, die er in den USA erstmals bekannt machte, für sein Verständnis eines >sozialistischen Humanismus< große Bedeutung. Er engagierte sich in der amerikani-schen Friedensbewegung, schrieb einen Entwurf zum Programm der Sozialistischen Partei der Vereinigten Staaten und stand in den 60er Jahren in Verbindung mit Philo-sophen der jugoslawischen Praxis-Gruppe. Angesichts der neueren Entwicklung des Kapitalismus, insbesondere im Finanzsektor und in der Arbeitswelt, wird versucht, die Tragweite von Fromms Konzept des >sozialistischen Humanismus< auszuloten. Dabei stellt sich die Frage, wieweit dieses Konzept geeignet und in der Lage ist, nicht nur zu einer kritischen Bewusstseinsbildung, sondern auch zur realen Gesellschaftsverände-rung beizutragen.
The article focuses on the analysis of chosen fragments of Erich Fromm concerning his utopia of a healthy society based on a specific cathegory of >be<. The presented problematics is built on widely understood socio-cultural conditions which had a great impact on philosopher’s works towards creation of the Utopian vision of the Better World, free from all sorts of totalitarian ideological extremism and paradoxes used in practice.
The present paper uses the conceptual framework first introduced by Erich Fromm in Escape from Freedom (1941) to draw parallels between how Germans came to embrace authoritarianism and totalitarianism in the 20th Century and how Americans have come to entertain authoritarian remedies in the 21st Century. Erich Fromm’s (1941) seminal conceptualization of negative and positive freedom are relevant today to understand the expansion of the internet and calls for privacy protections and privacy rights. A vicious cycle of negative freedom chasing has emerged in post-Great Recession and post-war America. Alternatively, valuing positive freedom can offer a real and long term solution to external threats to both individual freedom and social order (Fromm, 1941). A global social movement revolving around “privacy rights” has emerged in the 21st Century. It is rapidly becoming a lightning rod for past social movements in the 20th Century.
This article draws on the early work of Erich Fromm. In Escape from Freedom Fromm (1969 [1941]) directly addressed the psychological mechanisms of escape modern individuals employ to protect themselves from feelings of ontological insecurity and existential estrangement. The article builds on Fromm’s analysis by discussing the significance of his escape mechanisms for understanding the dynamic psychological attractions of identifying with entitative groups. Fromm’s work will be discussed in relation to Hogg’s recent work on uncertainty-identity theory. The aim of the article is to examine the advantages of combining Fromm’s psychoanalytic analysis with Hogg’s uncertainty-identity theory and to highlight the potential this approach has for understanding why groups engage in violent and destructive behaviour.
Extreme trauma in a polluted area: Bonds and relational transformations in an Italian community
(2016)
In the community of Casale Monferrato, exposure to asbestos has led to an extremely traumatic situation that has encompassed cancer and death and affected a variety of social and environmental aspects of both individuals and the community. When an entire community is severely traumatized, psychoanalytic group therapy seems to be the most suitable therapeutic setting: it allows for the historization of the event and the creation of multiple narratives of somatopsychic suffering, producing a transformative effect on nonmentalized emotional aggregates. Making reference to clinical material, I will show how the possibility of sharing, with other minds, the meaning of the trauma also brought into the field each participant's vital aspects, possibly not very intense in each individual but consistently present in the functioning of the mind of the group. I will also illustrate how this led to the development of a new and more mature psychic asset, with which painful and deadly experiences connected to the trauma could be faced.
The vicissitudes of an analytic psychotherapy process with a 6-year-old girl who had suffered since birth from severe epileptic seizures, with consequent general impairment of her development, are exposed and discussed. It is proposed that an oneiric vertex be adopted to better understand the full interplay between the patient's traumatic experience and the sessions’ flow. The therapist's ability to use his reverie in order to learn the patient's language behind the words – to resonate with his patient – is proposed as a key aspect in the process of transforming the traumatic experience of uncontainable threatening emotions. Using more than words, the analytic process unfolds gradually both through the analyst's availability to engage in a deep internal working-through of the experience of being with the patient, and from his capacity to learn from the patient's experience.
Od czasu publikacji pierwszego przekładu na język polski wyboru prac Ericha Fromma – >Szkiców z psychologii religii< – mija właśnie równe pół wieku. Dzięki staraniom kolejnych pokoleń rodzimych badaczy wydana została w tym okresie większość książek z obszernego dorobku psychoanalityka, socjologa i neomarksistowsko zorientowanego filozofa, które samodzielnie przygotował do druku, oraz część z opracowanych już po jego śmierci w 1980 roku przez Reinera Funka – wieloletniego asystenta, sprawującego obecnie pieczę nad znajdującym się w Tybindze archiwum dorobku autora >Mieć czy być?< W sumie jest to ponad dwadzieścia pozycji reprezentujących pięćdziesiąt lat twórczej i wnikliwej intelektualnie pracy Fromma. (…) Biorąc pod uwagę również sporą ilość artykułów oraz liczne nawiązania do koncepcji humanisty, jakie znajdujemy w polskich publikacjach, można powiedzieć, że zarówno stan badań, jak również inspiracje jego myślą mają szansę nabrać w najbliższych latach dynamiki. Przedkładany Czytelnikowi zbiór prac kontynuuje zatem badawczy wysiłek rozważania oraz przybliżania myśli Fromma i mamy nadzieję, że spełni przygotowane wcześniejszą recepcją dorobku filozofa oczekiwania.
Hegel’den Marcuse’ye Yabancılaşma Olgusu [On the Concept of Alienation: From Marcuse to Hegel]
(2016)
Günümüz insanı, kendi üretimine ve tüketimine, doğal ve toplumsal çevresine, diğer insanlara ve en önemlisi kendi özüne yabancılaşmış durumdadır. Teknolojik gelişmeyle birlikte insanlarda ve toplumda bunalım, yalnızlaşma, kimlik yitimi ve nesneleşme söz konusu olmuştur. Bu süreçte insan içeriksiz ve anlamsız bir varlık haline gelmiştir. Yabancılaşma sorununu merkeze alan bazı çağdaş filozoflar değerlerden ve ideallerden arındırılmış olan insanın, varoluş açısından anlamsızlaştığını, yabancılaştığını ve çözülmeye başladığını ileri sürmektedir. Bu makalede Hegel, Feuerbach, Marx, Lukács, Fromm ve Marcuse’nin yabancılaşma olgusu hakkındaki fikirleri ele alınıp tartışılmaktadır.
In connection with a conference in memory of Herbert Rosenfeld in 2014 in his home town of Nuremberg, from which he had to flee in 1935, the author did some research on the work of this outstanding, later British, psychoanalyst in Germany. The first results are presented here. How the first links came about remains unclear, but a few of his articles were published in German from 1955, and in the 1970s he held occasional seminars in Munich. His contacts with colleagues from the German Psychoanalytic Association (DPV) at the end of the 1970s and beginning of the 1980s (until his death in 1986), especially through a supervision group he led, seem, however, to have been the most influential ones. Rosenfeld transmitted a particularly >experience-near< approach to the patient, which also acknowledged and took seriously (self) destructive elements in the transference and countertransference. Over the following years and decades, a number of colleagues wished to deepen this approach. How this line was further developed is illustrated by outlining Gottfried Appy’s clinical description of an intrusive speechlessness. Rosenfeld’s ideas on the pernicious effect of idealizing destructive elements are especially stressed, as they contributed to thinking about the entanglements with Nazi Germany and in addition are still useful in analytic practice, out of which they were developed.
In this paper, the author attempts to shed some light on Herbert Rosenfeld’s thought and his way of working when was in Italy during 1978–1985. In particular, the author would like to show, in a sketchy way, the evolution of his thought, with specific regard for the new way in which he looked at clinical practice at that time. In the author’s opinion, the Rosenfeld that he and his group met and got to know in Italy was able to open new horizons in clinical practice, implicitly questioning some of his own or his circle’s previous viewpoints.
In this article, I analyze controversial humor and argue that the concept of disobedience is of central importance when evaluating, for instance, harsh or potentially hurtful jokes. Following social critic Erich Fromm (1900– 1980) I claim that disobedience is a dialectic concept: that is, it includes the possibilities both to affirm and to reject. This observation connects humor to other values, and pivotal is how humor is related to the question of what it means to be a human being. Through this insight, I argue that controversial humor may shock and be offensive, or it can be amusing and even have a cathartic effect. In the end, in evaluating humor it is necessary to analyze the values behind humor, that is, what humor obeys and what it disobeys.
This article examines the sociology, psychological thinker and analyzer of Erich Fromm’s work of to have or to be and its relevance to the ICT implementation policy in education. Many previous researches that have been conducted by many researchers in regard with ICT implementation policy whether in developed or underdeveloped countries, western to east, they put the blame on teachers’ capacity with any kinds of pitfalls, ranging from lack of confidence to lack of skill of ICT use. Whilst in larger scale of society capacity; central and local education authorities, and school as well to be blamed by researchers as lack of support from them, whether in form of facilities, motivation, professional development until lack of partnership and policy support. Therefore, this conceptual paper tries to see this phenomenon from other angle of Erich Fromm’s analysis of >To Have or To Be?<
[Conclusion] Niniejsza monografi a dowodzi, że inspirowana myślą Ericha Fromma teoria i praktyka edukacji może znaleźć w niej reprezentującą orientację emancypacyjną w krytycznej teorii edukacji spojną i wartościową wykładnię. Wskazuje także, że zaproponowany przez niego zbior ustaleń i rozwiązań bez większych przeszkod może stanowić dla pedagogiki ogolnej, teorii wychowania, jak rownież oddziaływań służących formowaniu całokształtu zdolności życiowych człowieka rezerwuar jednostkowych zapożyczeń. Ponadto dowodzi, że formułowane w jego książkach sądy i stawiane tam tezy pozostają istotnym źrodłem dla dalszego namysłu w pedagogice krytycznej, fi lozofi i edukacji oraz podejmowanych badań w rożnych obszarach nauk o wychowaniu. Wskazany i potencjalny wkład Fromma do pedagogiki ujęty w tej książce, ustalony na podstawie kompleksowego opracowania jego myśli, daje się sprowadzić do listy kilku złożonych zagadnień rozwiniętych w poszczegolnych rozdziałach, takich jak: koncepcja natury człowieka, jego rozwoju, podmiotowości, zdrowia oraz ideału wychowania; teoria społeczeństwa i jego wpływu na kształtowanie się osobowości oraz zdolności życiowych człowieka; dialektyczna koncepcja zmiany społecznej oraz miejsca i roli w niej edukacji; teoria jednostkowej i społecznej alienacji; koncepcja emancypacji przez edukację; teoria ruchu emancypacyjnego; koncepcja nauczyciela jako transformatywnego intelektualisty; teoria utopii społecznej; koncepcja doktryny pedagogicznej i ich powiązania w ideologii edukacyjnej radykalnego humanizmu; ogolna teoria ideologii; koncepcja ukrytego programu edukacji oraz kryteriow ich krytyki; teoria pedagogii azylu. Należy zaznaczyć, że konsekwentna realizacja zadania badawczego wymagała nie tylko rekonstrukcji, analizy i odczytania koncepcji Fromma, jej kontekstu fi lozofi cznego oraz wpływu środowisk intelektualnego i kulturowego, z jakich się wywodzi, ale w kilku przypadkach również określenia, referowania czy wskazania stanu aktualnej dyskusji w pedagogice oraz poszczególnych naukach humanistycznych i społecznych na temat zagadnień, do których nawiązuje w swoich interdyscyplinarnych z założenia pismach. Innymi słowy, zadanie wymagało dostosowania się do okoliczności warunkujących podjętą pracę przekładu, by możliwe było prawidłowe przedstawienie konsekwencji myśli Fromma dla pedagogiki oraz jej adaptacja na gruncie dyscypliny i zgodnie z obowiązującymi w niej stanem wiedzy i regułami metodologicznymi.
The aim of this paper is to explore certain aspects of reading as a psychic activity, focussing on editorial reading of psychoanalytic texts. The author puts stress on container–contained aspects of the reader–text–author relationship. The efficiency (or failure) of a text as container is more or less to be sought in its form and its >readability.< Concerning psychoanalytic texts, the editorial reader has to function as a container for the author's primitive and/or Oedipal anxieties, a process necessary for the evaluation and/or the potential transformation of a text; moreover, the psychoanalytic journal as a whole, through the linking processes it establishes between readers and authors, in the psychoanalytic community, can be regarded as the third object of a commensal container–contained relationship.
The teaching of psychoanalysis encompasses a wide array of educational stages, from undergraduate students to psychoanalytic candidates and lifelong training for professionals. Papers published in psychoanalytic journals play a fundamental role in teaching tasks. The historical separation of psychoanalytic practice from the research community and the university probably relates to the relative lack of empirical investigation and the contested status of research in general within the psychoanalytic community. In addition, there is not enough debate among different schools and orientations, making it very unlikely that creative solutions to theoretical and practical discussions will be found. Related to this, there seems to be a worrying deficit of recent references in psychoanalytic papers compared with general psychiatric journals or medical publications. This reflects a dangerous attitude of not paying attention to contemporary writers within our own field. Reasons behind this might be fear of confrontation with other colleagues, loyalty to our own dogmas and clinical practices, a system of training that promotes continuity, and even organizational structures that sustain this state of things. A renewed attention to research in psychoanalysis (conceptual, empirical, clinical-observational, etc.) and establishing ties to academic environments in the fields of natural and human sciences might improve this situation and offer a path towards collective theoretical and clinical development.
In this article we argue that freedom of speech should be understood as a social freedom. In the public discussion after the Charlie Hebdo attacks, it has often been understood as an absolute right to say anything – to offend, to make a fool of others and of oneself, and to express any opinion regardless of the consequences. We challenge this view and propose that advocating freedom of speech without understanding its social foundations is misleading and counterproductive. Based on the critical social theories of Erich Fromm, Charles Taylor and Axel Honneth, we show that there is an alternative tradition in which freedom is fundamentally rooted in social relations and therefore requires respect for others. We argue that interpreting freedom of speech as a social freedom avoids some of the problems apparent in current discussions. In addition, our position has significant practical consequences on how humour and insults should be understood.
The authors present a materialist analysis of the effects of neoliberalism in education. Specifically, they contend that neoliberalism is a form of cultural invasion that begets necrophilia. Neoliberalism is necrophilous in promoting a cultural desire to fix fluid systems and processes. Such desire manufactures both individuals known and culturally felt experiences of alienation which are, it is argued, symptomatic of an imperialist nostalgia that permeates educational policy and practice. The authors point to >unschooling in schools< as a mechanism for resisting the necrophilous tendencies of contemporary formations of education.
Novel >For the Love of My Son< (LS) karya Margaret Davis merupakan salah satu novel terjemahan yang mengangkat kondisi eksistensi manusia. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mendeskripsikan kepribadian tokoh utama dalam novel LS karya Margaret Davis dengan menggunakan pendekatan kepribadian Marxian (Erich Fromm). Metode yang digunakan adalah kualitatif dengan teknik analisis isi dengan ciri deskriptif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan (1) Dilema eksistensi manusia pada tokoh utama dalam novel LS: menikah, memiliki anak, bahagia, sedih, bertanggungjawab, kesepian dan mau kekerjasama; (2) Kebutuhan tokoh utama dalam menghadapi eksistensinya: perhatian kepada keluarga, rasa bangga terhadap anak dan menjaga hubungan baik antara ibu dan anak; (3) Mekanisme melarikan diri dari kebebasan; a) Margaret berusaha untuk membantu orang lain untuk mendapatkan cinta tetapi tidak memberi hal positif kepada dirinya sendiri (negatif); b) Berusaha keras mengirim penjahat ke penjara untuk mendapatkan kekuatan atau kepuasan batin (positif). c) Menyesuaikan diri dengan pihak luar demi mendapatkan kebebasan (positif).
Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie problematyki wolności pojawiającej się w myśli Ericha Fromma poprzez odniesienie jej do współczesnego kształtowania prawa i pozycji jednostki w systemie demokratycznym. Za podstawę rozważań przyjęto tezę badacza wskazującą, że lęk człowieka przed wolnością i indywidualizmem stał się główną przyczyną rozwoju dwudziestowiecznych totalitaryzmów. Zdaniem autorki, diagnoza Fromma oraz wydobyte przez niego zagrożenia autonomii, mogą stanowić wzór ochrony wolności również we współczesnym systemie prawnym. Artykuł zawiera analizę mechanizmów i rozwiązań prawnych, dzięki którym możliwe jest wzmacnianie indywidualnej sprawczości i pozycji jednostki w demokracji. Akcentuje również niebezpieczeństwa, jakie dla wolności niesie współczesne myślenie o prawie, takie jak nadmierna jurydyzacja życia. Istotną częścią artykułu jest zbadanie poruszanych problemów z perspektywy regulacji zastosowanych w polskim systemie prawnym, a także zwrócenie uwagi na nowe ponadpaństwowe zjawiska i ruchy takie jak Liquid Democracy i Partie Piratów.
Membincangkan persoalan tentang cinta seringkali mengarah pada kekuatan untuk memiliki seseorang sepenuhnya membuat orang yang dicintai selalu tunduk dan mengikuti apa yang diinginkan oleh pasangannya. Namun terlepas dari polemik yang ada penelitian ini secara spesifik membahas tentang bagaimana media mengkonstruk cinta pada acara Katakan Putus. Dengan menggunakan konsep teori Erich Fromm, sedangkan metode penelitian yang digunakan yaitu kualitatif dengan pendekatan analisis wacana Norman Fairlough. Waktu penelitian dilakukan pada bulan Desember 2015 ± April 2016. Hasil penelitian ini yakni menemukan bahwa media menghadirkan tema cinta tidak hanya sebatas cinta pada pasangan, akan tetapi terdapat cinta kepada Tuhan, cinta kepada orang tua, cinta sosial/sesama, dan cinta erotis/cinta pasangan. Meskipun tema yang dihadirkan berbeda namun media tetap melegitimasi bahwa dalam sebuah cinta unsur-unsur yang harus ada adalah karakter (1) Perhatian (2) Tanggung jawab (3) Rasa Hormat (4) Setia dan (5) Jujur. Media lebih menunjukkan bahwa sayang merupakan ungkapan yang digunakan untuk menunjukkan perasaan seseorang untuk menjaga dan mencintai sepenuh hati bukan hasrat untuk memiliki seseorang.
Konstruktiv bis subversiv – Anmerkungen zur Ambivalenz von Erich Fromms Verhältnis zur Pädagogik
(2016)
Niniejszy artykuł jest próbą refleksji nad relacją jednostka – kultura, a ściślej: refleksji dotyczącej społeczno-kulturowych uwarunkowań w pro¬cesie poszukiwania przez jednostkę jej tożsamości osobowej. Zasadnicze pytania brzmią w tym kontekście tak: W jaki sposób kulturowe wzorce, moda, obowiązujące normy i wartości oraz religia determinują moje >ja<? Czy da się oddzielić (nazwijmy umownie) moje >ja wewnętrzne< od >ja kulturowego<, to jest ról społecznych, przez które następuje samoiden¬tyfikacja? Czy >ja kulturowe< jest wynikiem odpowiedzi (a więc: odpo¬wiedzialności), jakiej jednostka udziela sama sobie, czy też mamy do czynienia z konformistyczną maską, rodzajem samooszustwa?
Laudatio auf Götz W. Werner
(2016)
The field of social work is currently wrestling with a number of divergent theories and concepts as it seeks to discover ways of thinking about social issues, client worlds, and best practices. Yet many of those eclectically gathered theories are not aligned logically or philosophically. This has led to a disjointed, ad hoc, and disunited theoretical basis within the field that has, arguably, weakened its collective effectiveness, reputation, and impact. Erich Fromm (1900-1980), a German-born psychoanalyst and philosopher, offers a number of theoretical ideas, stances, and directions that may improve social work’s theoretical underpinnings and perhaps even provide some foundational elements useful for the creation of a unified theory of human functioning in the world. This article explores Fromm’s body of work with the intention of applying a selection of his ideas to social work theory, policy, and practice. Remedies to resolve the bifurcation of psyche-based and society-based theories are discussed. Following this is a presentation of Fromm’s concept of >social character< as well as implications for social work practice.
Low-tech is an important, but at the same time largely underestimated movement of contemporary architecture. The first part of this paper attempts to discuss the characteristics of this phenomenon in the context of the grand ideas of Modernism and demonstrate how important it is to define it. The existing definitions of low-tech presented in the second part of the article bear a significant downside as they only focus on the physical aspects of this movement, i.e. materials and methods of construction. The third part of the paper suggests an alternative definition which allows extending research to include a psychological perspective onto the movement and incorporates the motivation of the creators and users of low-tech architecture. Based on the case study of Paulina Wojciechowska’s work and the newly proposed definition combined with a model based on the psychological theory developed by Erich Fromm, the paper attempts to introduce a narrative that reveals more about low-tech than even the most detailed description of physical materials and methods of construction.
My father, Herbert Rosenfeld
(2016)
This is the modified version of the powerpoint that Angela Rosenfeld, the elder daughter of Herbert Rosenfeld (1910–1986) – one of Melanie Klein's most important collaborators – presented in Nuremberg, his native town, on October 5, 2014, upon the invitation of the German Psychoanalytic Society (DPG). In it, Angela Rosenfeld reconstructs not only her father's main life events, but also her personal relationship to him and the family climate in which she grew up. The traumas brought about by Hitler's rise to power in 1933 are partly still reflected in the holes and/or open questions that the author herself became aware of while writing and presenting the paper – and which profoundly touched and moved her audience.
My relationship to the IFP in the context of the original construction of our identity as a journal
(2016)
The author presents the context within which the editorial approach of the International Forum of Psychoanalysis was originally constructed, and the identity of its editorial board established, most of whose phases he was personally able to participate in. Particularly important was the role of the founding editor, Jan Stensson, in establishing not only the network sustaining the journal, its aims, and its working routines, but also the analytic methodology of reciprocal and careful listening, which makes our work as members of the editorial board a highly worthwhile professional experience. This is the legacy that the author further developed in his work with Jan Stensson's successor, Christer Sjödin (2007–2014), and that he shares with the new coeditor-in-chief, Grigoris Maniadakis.
Recalling his own participation in a daily group seminar with Rosenfeld and taking this experience as his starting point, the Author describes and discusses the later Rosenfeld’s approach to working with severely disturbed narcissistic patients. Through a detailed analysis of a supervision of a session with a psychotic patient, this paper essentially highlights how important it is to construct a (cognitive and affective) basic common ground in order to subsequently proceed to interpretations of transference. In particular, the paper brings to light those elements allowing the creation of that basic cognitive-affective ground that is necessary to profitably (in a manner useful to the patient) connect the relational events narrated and acted by the patient with the hic et nunc of analytic interaction.
The neoliberal character rests on the credo—>There is no alternative.< There is no alternative to deregulation, free trade, individual entrepreneurship, and competition. This is believed by economists and intellectuals as the only way for humanity to be liberated from the feudal past. It is argued that this new economic liberalism reclaims the lost humanity of man. It is therefore through neoliberal perspectives that freedom and human creativity are realized. There is no other way but to engross oneself in this economic mainstream as transnational companies, through the help of IMF and the WB, continuously occupy the social sphere. Economically, as individuals adapt to this capitalist mainstream, they assimilate their environment in accordance to the character matrix predominantly enforced by neoliberal apologists. Consequently, human potentialities are being absorbed into a system controlled by the very socio-economic apparatuses of modern society. Human reason becomes its very instrument as it is refashioned into a reified system of thinking. Human consciousness is captured in a single dimensional space propagated by this liberal economy. Individual growth, creativity, spontaneity, and productivity are all incorporated and hobbled in order to transmit the structures of neoliberal paradigm.
In its broadest sense, hegemony is defined as a set of agreed ideologies practiced by prominent regimes and governments which influences people’s minds. One of the practices which can be observed in most societies is the exclusion and rejection of homosexuals of their fundamental rights as humans. As such, the issue will be magnified in this paper through a satirical play written by Larry Kramer, entitled >The Normal Heart<. Parallel with the dominant hegemony, the homosexual characters in the play are mistreated and isolated within their own society. To retaliate, these characters consider themselves as victims and intend to counter the situation by masochism. However, the attempt seems to backfire and reify the preexisting hegemony. As such, this paper explores >The Normal Heart< in light of Antonio Gramsci’s concept of hegemony as well as Erich Fromm’s masochism. To further specify, the paper examines the homosexual characters – their victimization and their fight against the dominant ideologies and how it all leads to their estrangement within the society.
Celem artykułu jest odniesienie antropologicznych ustaleń autora Uciecz¬ki od wolności do problematyki praktyki prawniczej. Przyjmując za Eri¬chem Frommem, że typ osobowości danej jednostki przekłada się na sposób, w jaki ona postrzega rzeczywistość i działa, oraz wykorzystu¬jąc obecne w literaturze teoretycznoprawnej twierdzenia o ukrytym znaczeniu czynników osobowościowych w procesie stosowania prawa, Autor proponuje scalenie tych tropów, traktując je jako wzajemnie po¬świadczające się i dopełniające.
The author analyzes the temporal dimension of depression by making reference to one of the clinical cases he treated and re-examining a clinical case analyzed by Edith Jacobson. According to the result of his observations, the developmental psychodynamics of a depressive state normally appears to take place in two distinct phases: a first narcissistic loss, which gives rise to an integrative conflict and to the formation of a certain identificatory structure, is later followed by a second narcissistic loss, which leads to the real depressive state. The two phases present a specific, intrinsic connection constituted by the implication of the same identificatory element of the self, recognition of which can favour a clinical work that more closely adheres to the deep dynamics of depression.
One psychoanalysis or two?
(2016)
Departing from the debate between Julia Kristeva and Daniel Stern that produced a predictably intense polemic, the author tries to conceptualize the very different models of psychoanalysis that emerge. On the basis of the irreducibility between natural sciences and social sciences, these models are shown. They are situated in a historical context, paying attention to the epistemological debates that have accompanied psychoanalysis for many years. Differences are exemplified through the exploration of Kristeva's and Stern's perspectives about the functions of the mother figure. The debate between Stern and Kristeva took place in the context of the 2010 IFPS Forum.
Orientasi Karakter Perilaku Aktivis Mahasiswa [Character Orientation of Students Activst Behavior]
(2016)
Penelitian ini dilakukan berdasarkan adanya perilaku mahasiswa yang menarik diri dari lingkungan organisasi. Permasalahan yang diangkat oleh peneliti merupakan hasil tinjauan budaya dalam penyelenggaraan pendidikan politik di Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta. Oleh karena itu, penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui, memahami dan memaknai dikotomi eksistensial Erich Fromm dalam membantu subyek mengatasi alienasi organisasi. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif. Subyek penelitian dipilih menggunakan teknik purposive sampling sejumlah tiga orang mahasiswa. Metode pengumpulan data menggunakan wawancara, observasi partisipan, dan dokumentasi. Teknik analisis data menggunakan reduksi data, display data, lalu kesimpulan. Uji keabsahan data menggunakan teknik triangulasi data, yaitu triangulasi sumber dan metode. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa subyek AS dan ANU menggunakan orientasi karakter produktif dengan persentase sebesar 45,32 dan 22,37. Sedangkan subyek KJ menggunakan orientasi karakter nonproduktif dengan persentase sebesar -1,47.