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The knowledge culture of psychoanalysis relies heavily on the practical wisdom of competent psychoanalytic clinicians. In order to become competent analysts, analysts in training should not content themselves with trusting in their supervisors’ intuition and expertise. There is a need for supervisors and supervisees to explicate implicit theories of interpretive and supervisory techniques in psychoanalytic supervision by raising the question >Where does it come from?< with regard to three too often neglected issues. First, both the supervisor and the analyst in training should actively and constantly try to make transparent the process of contextualization, that is, the methodology of inferring latent meaning from manifest content through privileging certain pieces of information over others. Second, it should become an ongoing task in supervision that concrete (recommendations about) technical interventions are embedded in and reflect the application of a particular theory of technique. This facilitates an understanding that goes beyond the interpretation in a concrete situation and helps to generalize learning into a gradually expanding, integrated technical framework. Third, we should reflect and explicate the (predominant) supervisory approaches we are using in order to remain flexible with regard to both supervisory material and ways of reacting to it. Discussing these issues will enable analysts in training to develop their own psychoanalytic identity and integrated frame of reference for their practice that they critically and deliberately reflect upon and actively acquire rather than passively and seemingly intuitively absorb and adopt. Examples for illustrating the explication of theories of interpretive and supervisory techniques are provided.
When viewed from the vantage point of embodiment, the psychoanalytic understanding of traumatic experience is transformed. In this article, a new language is proposed that describes traumatic experience as disturbances in the flow of an individual’s effortless, unconscious focusing on oneself (>I<), the other or others (>you<), on oneself as connected to others (>we<), and on all that involves the nonhuman surround (>world<). From this perspective, developmental and late-onset trauma models are seen as overlapping rather than competing. The authors support their proposal by drawing on self psychology, relational theory, and the Boston Change Process Study Group and offer illustrative clinical material.
As perspectivas de pensamentos da Logoterapia e Análise Existencial de Frankl e a Psicanálise de Freud, apesar de visões diferentes de ser humano e mundo, há muito em comum, principalmente quando as influências do humanismo e existencialismo afetam os pensamentos de psicanalistas. Esse trabalho tem como objetivo apresentar os pressupostos teóricos sobre o amor e humanidade de Viktor Emil Frankl e Erich Fromm considerados dois humanistas. O artigo busca indicar, apesar das divergências entre as duas abordagens psicológicas, posições em comum principalmente semelhanças de pensamentos, ou seja, concordâncias de ideias em benefício de um bem comum da saúde mental do indivíduo na terapia. Foram utilizadas pesquisas bibliográficas em livros e artigos em bases de dados, por meio dos fundamentos teóricos dos pensamentos de Viktor Emil Frankl e de Erich Fromm. Averiguou-se que, mesmo de escolas divergentes em relação aos conceitos de ser humano e mundo, as duas abordagens apresentam, de acordo com os pensadores, perspectivas que convergem em relação aos construtos de amor e humanidade.
Biophilia as Evolutionary Adaptation: An Onto- and Phylogenetic Framework for Biophilic Design
(2021)
Biophilia is a human personality trait described initially by Erich Fromm and later by E.O. Wilson, both of whom agree that biophilia has a biological basis and that it is fundamental to develop harmonious relationships between humans and the biosphere. This review aims at establishing a definition of biophilia as an evolutionary process. To this end, the most significant studies of evolutionary psychology were considered, to outline the fundamental characteristics of a hypothetical biophilic temperament/personality and to reconstruct a plausible history of biophilia as an evolutionary process. This process considers different typologies of Nature (wilderness, rural, and urban) and human cultures (Paleolithic, Neolithic, and Burg) and leads us to consider environmental preference and psycho-physiological recovery in relation to the threshold of time spent in contact with Nature. Unfortunately, modern people, especially children, lack direct and frequent contact with Nature and this can have negative consequences on their physical and mental health. Biophilic design, considering the evolutionary roots of this architectural approach, is an effective way of planning/designing interior and urban environments to stimulate the innate biophilia of the individual.
The psychic Black Hole is a primitive psychosomatic representation of undifferentiation and loss of the vanished mother of infancy. It is evoked during a psychic collapse, originated when awareness of the reality of separation from the mother comes in too soon. Its repetition creates an implosion into the self instead of an explosion into the receiving other. The catastrophe that it marks is an overwhelming affective storm that has resulted from a loss of the containing (m)other and a subsequent annihilation of the self. As a sign or a signal used for self-regulation, the Black Hole marks a deficit in the ability to symbolize that evokes states of meaninglessness, nothingness, and hopelessness.
Border Situations as Unchanging Human Situations (via Karl Jaspers, Erich Fromm & Noam Chomsky
(2021)
The first aim of this paper is to raise the interest in the works of three authors, Karl Jaspers, Erich Fromm, and Noam Chomsky. The second intention is to show and prove that despite being different in vocation, they essentially speak of the same social reality, regardless of the fact that they observe and reflect reality from different theoretical/scientific positions/aspects: philosophical, ethical/bioethical, anthropological, sociological, psychological, political, legal, economic, cultural, philological/linguistic, ideological. Despite certain differences, what brings them together spiritually/cognitively are the >diagnoses< of the diseased tissue of (post)modern civil society, as well as the assessments of the phenomenon of social/existential reality of our time. What unites them is the comprehensive humanism and care for the man and man’s psychosomatic health and their present and future life, at the time when civilization is on the verge of self-destruction.
Penelitian bertujuan mengungkap gejala, bentuk, dan tujuan perasaan cinta tokoh-tokoh dalam novel >Fi Qalbi Untsa ‘Ibriyyah<, serta bagaimana mereka bersikap ketika perasaan cinta kepada sesama manusia terhalang oleh batasan agama yang mereka anut (Yahudi, Islam, dan Kristen) sehingga mengakibatkan konflik dan pertentangan di antara mereka. Penelitian ini berbentuk studi pustaka dengan melakukan analisis terhadap karya sastra Arab yang berbentuk novel serta menggunakan pendekatan psikososial Erich Fromm tentang konsep cinta, dimana Fromm berpandangan bahwa cinta merupakan solusi dari semua permasalahan manusia. >Fi Qalbi Untsa ‘Ibriyyah< menampilkan kehidupan para tokoh yang awalnya dalam suasana damai saling mencintai tanpa melihat identitas agama, tetapi kemudian cinta mereka berubah menjadi konflik setelah mengetahui perbedaan agama di antara mereka. Para tokoh memiliki dua pilihan, antara mengikuti perasaan cinta kepada manusia tanpa memandang identitas agama atau melepaskan rasa cinta tersebut dengan alasan menaati batasan agama sebagai wujud cinta kepada Tuhan. Penelitian menjadi penting ketika ditemukan fakta bahwa cinta yang berangkat dari perasaan suka kepada personal tanpa melihat ikatan sosial ternyata bisa melahirkan banyak konflik ketika bertemu dengan identitas agama beserta batasan-batasannya.
El presente artículo es una aproximación al personaje de Ricardo, protagonista de >El año de Ricardo< de Angélica Liddell, desde el punto de vista del psicoanálisis de Erich Fromm. Un concepto especialmente útil a la hora de abordar esta reescritura moderna de la famosa tragedia shakespeariana es la >orientación necrófila<, un término acuñado por Erich Fromm para describir un carácter destructivo, que manifiesta una clara fijación en las actividades y los procesos contrarios a la vida, al desarrollo, al crecimiento. Una herramienta complementaria, que también se emplea en el análisis del personaje, es la noción de >carácter anal<, de Freud, cuyas teorías han sido reinterpretadas y elaboradas por Fromm. Siguiendo el planteamiento de Liddell, en el artículo se destaca el íntimo vínculo que existe entre la estructura psíquica y la vida pública del personaje, y, por extensión, de cualquier político.
Deciphering Crypto-fascism
(2021)
Fascism is a virulent historical social pathology that presents itself as a political ideology or a component of general ideology. It is historical in a double sense. It is actualized at specific times and places. It is also, a recurring feature of history itself. Crypto-fascism is the manipulation of the ambiguity of language for the purpose of fascistic actualization. Crypto-fascism is often an early >tell< or warning of the presence of more widespread fascism. There have been several powerful and deep studies of fascism and its co-optation of the ambiguity of language. Two of these approaches are of particular importance. In both instances fascism is addressed as a potentiality or susceptibility tied to the human condition per se. The first is Freudian and the second is existential. These approaches both meet the historical criteria noted above. In this essay I follow the work of Erich Fromm and Jean-Paul Sartre to understand the ground of fascism and its crypto variant. Camouflage is the hallmark of crypto-fascism, and it is exactly this that Fromm’s analysis and that of Sartre discloses.
Der 1. Mai im weiten Ural
(2021)
Der Wille zur Revolution. Foucaults Reise in den Iran im Licht seiner vorherigen Bloch-Lektüre
(2021)
In diesem Artikel wird den Fragen nachgegangen, wie sich eine spezifische lebensweltorientierte Berufsidentität im Kontext der aktuellen gesellschaftlichen Rollbacks und des grassierenden Antisemitismus darstellt und inwieweit diese Berufsidentität in der Praxis der Sozialen Arbeit Orientierung bieten kann. Die Auseinandersetzung mit diesen Fragen erfolgt unter Berücksichtigung dreier Aspekte: des Phänomens des Antisemitismus, der lebensweltorientierten Berufsidentität nach Hans Thiersch und der historischen und aktuellen Autoritarismusforschung. Zweck der Beschreibung dieser Aspekte ist es, die facettenreichen Artikulationsformen des Antisemitismus, die fundamentale Trias der Lebensweltorientierung und die historische Kontinuität der Autoritarismusforschung sowie die Relation zwischen Autoritarismus und Antisemitismus aufzuzeigen, um darauf basierend Orientierungshilfen für die lebensweltorientierte Praxis zu skizzieren. Da die Hochschulausbildung für die Professionalität der Studierenden von eminenter Bedeutung ist, wird abschließend ein Schlaglicht auf die antisemitismuskritische Hochschulausbildung der Sozialen Arbeit und ihre aktuellen Defizite geworfen. Der Verfasser erhofft sich mit diesem Artikel zur Positionierung der lebensweltorientierten Berufsidentität im Kontext des aktuellen Antisemitismus beizutragen.
A short survey is given of the digitization of the Freud Archives, focusing on Eissler’s interviews. On the basis of several paradigmatic items the author highlights some characteristics of Freud’s technique as well as his attitude to supervision and his general idea of psychoanalysis that differs from our views.
En mi revisión general del desarrollo de las las teorías de Fromm, demuestro, primero que todo, cómo Fromm y su teoría sobre la necesidad de relación (relatedness) y el carácter social tenía como objetivo comprender al individuo y a la sociedad de una manera diferente a lo que era costumbre en esa época. En segundo lugar, expongo cuán relevente es la casi siempre ignorada perspectiva social-psicoanalítica para el pensamiento habitual en términos del concepto de relación, y cuán abierto resulta este enfoque para estructurar perspectivas que emanan de la biología humana.
This paper argues that autonomy is a crucial concept for psychoanalysis that deserves greater attention and closer elaboration. Although there is abundant literature on the complexities of Freud’s psychic determinism and its compatibility (or not) with different notions of freedom, less attention has been paid to psychoanalytic definitions of autonomy, especially in relation to the end(s) of analysis. In what follows I propose a framework for a psychoanalytic conception of autonomy based on an intrapsychic and an intersubjective axis. I argue for the consideration of three kinds of freedom: a freedom >from,< a freedom >to,< and a freedom >through.< Freedom >from< refers to the quest for liberation from intrapsychic constraints that delimit our freedom >to< be agents of change and novelty, subjects capable of degrees of self-creation and self-determination; both kinds of freedom require the common psychic work between patient and therapist, the working-through of the particular elements of the transferential and countertransferential dynamics of the dyad generating a form of freedom >through< one another, unique to psychoanalytic activity.
Erich Fromm was central to the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research under the direction of Max Horkheimer, but the works of each author, while handling at times similar issues, took different paths. The article’s aim is to analyze how Horkheimer’s anthropology, which would be of importance in Dialectic of Enlightenment, was built as the author critically embodied the core elements of his colleague’s social psychology in his essays. By doing so, Horkheimer could overcome some of the limitations of Fromm’s early work, as well as suggest new ways for critique.
Penelitian ini ditujukan untuk mengetahui bagaimana pandangan Erich Fromm mengenai cinta, serta untuk melihat posisi cinta dalam bangunan utuh Etika Humanistik Erich Fromm khususnya dalam kehidupan sosial masyarakat modern masa kini. Metode penelitian yang digunakan untuk mencapai tujuan tersebut adalah studi pustaka. Erich Fromm memiliki pandangan yang unik mengenai cinta. Cinta menurut Erich Fromm adalah seni. Seni mencinta terwujud dalam tindakan aktif dan disadari secara penuh oleh manusia sebagai subyek. Pandangan Erich Fromm ini adalah kritiknya pada masyarakat yang salah memaknai cinta. Kesalahpahaman ini menyebabkan cinta gagal menjadi jalan keluar dari keterasingan manusia. Masyarakat pada masa Erich Fromm justru mempraktikkan cinta secara pasif yaitu memposisikan diri sendiri dan orang lain sebagai obyek cinta. Hal yang kurang lebih sama masih dialami oleh masyarakat modern masa kini. Dalam etikanya, Erich Fromm berpandangan bahwa manusia haruslah melalui proses individuasi dengan harmonis sehingga dapat mencapai karakter produktif. Karakter manusia yang produktif inilah yang mampu menjadi subyek atau aktor yang sesungguhnya dalam tindakan berpikir, bekerja, serta mencinta. Pada masa modern kini, pemanfaatan internet di semua sisi kehidupan masyarakat menciptakan kemudahan sekaligus kesulitan bagi manusia untuk menjadi pribadi yang produktif sehingga mampu menjadi seniman cinta.
Rather than being absolute, human freedom is relative because human situation and condition limits it. Also relative is press freedom. History of press in Indonesia recorded that press freedom is experienced once more by Indonesian people after the 1998 reform. At implementation level, there are numerous debates on the definition of freedom. This research attempts to analyze autonomous and dynamics press freedom in Indonesia as observed from Erich Fromm’s perspective. This research is a qualitative research on philosophical problem analyzed by means of historical-factual approach. Research result indicates that autonomous and dynamic press can be achieved through two actions. First, opposing the parties who prevent press from becoming themselves. Second, developing the >culture< of rationality, i.e. accustoming the press to develop their common sense to reach each of their realistic point.
Idolatry
(2021)
This paper investigates the emergence of dream material in the graphic novel Arsène Schrauwen, authored by Belgian comics artist, Olivier Schrauwen. Although the author purports to tell the story of his grandfather’s misadventures as a young man, from the novel’s outset the focus on Arsène’s life is blurry and unreliable, much like the creative distortions and displacements of dreaming. Drawing on notions of reverie, countertransference dreaming, and Marion Milner’s oscillation phenomena, I read this book as a metaleptic dialogue between two forms of dreaming, one in the text and one without, and in which the author allows himself to dreamily merge with the subjects of story. As such, I describe the work of an artist who creates a deliberately unrealistic portrait of his grandfather, yet in this unfaithful rendering communicates the enduring and destabilizing presence of generational echoes, which continue to oscillate as the counternarrative dream material of present life.
Intersubjectivity and psychopathology: Borderline and psychosomatic bodies >at the mind’s limits<
(2021)
The body is the essential go-between between selfhood and otherness, and the site of the implicit traces of intersubjectivity that have marked the brain as well as the body. The body is also the depository of epigenetically implicit traces, sorts of implicit working models. The body is finally the site of the un/conscious, in the sense of implicit memory, something that is not conscious but guides implicitly, namely without our full awareness, behaviors, motivations, feelings, and responses. In psychopathology, only interpersonal traumatizations or >trauma of human agency< in its three levels causes dissociation in humans. At the mind’s limits, the body/mind disconnection that characterizes psychopathology, as in borderline personality disorders, is also evident in psychosomatic disorders, where the circuit between what the body feels, what the mind registers, and what the subject can name or is able to express verbally is disconnected and, as a result, bodily symptoms come forth in order to name the emotional pain. While hysterical symptoms still retain a symbolic root suitable for interpretation (retaining a metaphoric link between mind and body), psychomatic disorders show that the connection between body and mind has been severed and the symptoms speak >at the mind’s limits.<
Interview with Thomas Ogden
(2021)
In this interview Thomas Ogden freely speaks about himself and the evolution of his work, with particular regard for the analytic authors he values the most and their specific language. We also learn about his very meaningful relationships with both Bryce Boyer and James Grotstein, and about how much writing means to him. The interview was conducted in February 2020 during the COVID-19 lockdown per email correspondence, the aim of the authors being to make their French colleagues more familiar with Thomas Ogden's life and work.
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan dilema eksistensi, kebutuhan manusia, serta mekanisme pelarian tokoh utama dalam novel >Mata dan Manusia Laut<. Teori yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah psikologi kepribadian Marxian Erich Fromm. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah deskriptif kualitatif dengan pendekatan psikologi. Sumber data dalam penelitian ini adalah novel >Mata dan Manusia Laut< yang merupakan novel ketiga dari empat serial novel >Mata< karya Okky Madasari. Data dalam penelitian ini berupa unit-unit teks yang menunjukkan aktivitas, dialog, perbuatan maupun perilaku tokoh utama terkait kepribadian Marxian. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah teknik baca dan catat. Teknik analisis data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah analisis objektif yang berpusat pada karya sastra secara keseluruhan. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan adanya kepribadian Marxian dalam novel yang digambarkan melalui peristiwa-peristiwa yang dihadapi tokoh Matara. Kepribadian Marxian tokoh Matara yang ditemukan dalam penelitian ini berupa (1)dilema eksistensi meliputi manusia sebagai binatang dan sebagai manusia, hidup dan mati, ketidaksempurnaan dan kesempurnaan, kesendirian dan kebersamaan; (2)kebutuhan manusia meliputi kebutuhan kebebasan dan keterikatan, kebutuhan untuk memahami dan beraktivitas; serta (3)mekanisme melarikan diri dari kebebasan berupa otoritarianisme, perusakan, dan penyesuaian.
Kekerasan dalam pacaran (Dating Violence) merupakan pelecehan fisik, seksual, emosional atau verbal dari pasangan romantik atau seksual. Data terakhir Catatan Tahunan Komnas Perempuan Tahun 2017 menyebutkan, terdapat 16% angka kekerasan dalam pacaran, dengan angka mencapai 1.873 kasus, dan masih terus bertambah. Beberapa faktor menjadi penyebab munculnya kekerasan dalam pacaran, baik dari faktor eksternal (konstruk budaya), maupun faktor internal (individu). Tulisan ini mencoba mengurai tentang bagaimana pemaknaan konsep cinta yang keliru, sebagai basis dari terbentuknya hubungan pacaran yang diskriminatif. Tinjauan tentang hakikat cinta dan bagaimana pemaknaan tentang cinta, dilakukan dengan menggunakan konsep yang dikemukakan oleh Erich Fromm. Kajian ini menjadi penting untuk menjelaskan bagaimana seharusnya pemaknaan tentang cinta sebagai sebuah proses menjadi (To Be), bukan sebagai tujuan untuk memiliki (To Have). Kajian ini memungkinkan individu lebih bisa memaknai hubungan pacaran dengan konsep cinta yang produkif, sehingga terbebas dari tindak kekerasan dalam pacaran, baik sebagai korban maupun pelaku.
Artikel ini membahas konsep cinta pada puisi-puisi karya Sapardi Djoko Damono. Konsep cinta seperti yang dikemukakan oleh Erich Fromm merupakan jawaban atas masalah pada eksistensi manusia. Konsep cinta yang universal dapat dilihat sebagai seni kehidupan (>art of life<) yang meliputi: cinta manusia kepada manusia, cinta manusia kepada alam, dan cinta manusia kepada tuhan. Masalah yang muncul dalam artikel ini adalah: bagaimana konsep cinta direpresentasi dalam puisi-puisi karya Sapardi Djoko Damono; serta bagaimana pemaknaan konsep cinta tersebut dilihat dari penggunaan tanda-tanda di dalam puisi. Berdasarkan permasalahan tersebut, konsep cinta akan dibahas pada kekuatan tanda yang hadir di dalam puisi. Tanda-tanda tersebut kemudian dianalisis berdasarkan teori semiotika yang dikemukakan oleh Pierce, yakni dengan memperhatikan representament, object, dan interpretant. Di samping itu, artikel ini juga menunjukkan hubungan (relasi) tanda dengan teks lain dan penggunaan gaya bahasanya. Pembahasan-pembahasannya kemudian bermuara pada pemaknaan konsep cinta yang terdapat pada puisi-puisi karya Sapardi Djoko Damono. Akhirnya, pemaknaan konsep cinta ini dapat dilihat sebagai konsep universal yang merujuk pada keperiadaan manusia sebagai bentuk eksistensinya di dunia. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa konsep cinta pada puisi-puisi Sapardi Djoko Damono ditemukan dalam tataran diksi, citraan, dan gaya bahasa. Konsep cinta yang ditemukan pada tataran struktur tersebut menjadi bagian penting dalam memahami puisi secara keseluruhan dan memaknai puisi-puisi tersebut.
Kehidupan manusia dipenuhi dengan berbagai macam harapan dan tujuan, salah satu harapan dan tujuan tersebut yaitu pencapaian kebahagiaan. Dengan segala kelebihannya manusia dituntut untuk menciptakan kehidupan yang seimbang dan serasi di dunia ini, dengan bahagia yang menjadi tujuan utamanya, karena semua manusia mendambakan kebahagiaan dalam kehidupan dunia ini. Kebahagiaan seolah-olah menjadi harapan atau tujuan yang didambakan dalam kehidupan manusia pada umumnya. Artikel ini merupakan kajian komparasi tentang kebahagiaan antara pemikiran Al-Ghazali dari sudut pandang Islam dengan Pemikiran Eric Fromm dari sudut pandang Psikologi. Kajian ini menggunakan pendekatan studi pustaka (library research). Hasil dari kajian ini menunjukkan bahwa konsep kebahagiaan dalam pandangan Islam menurut Al-Ghazali ialah bahwa kebahagiaan akan didapatkan ketika mengenal diri sendiri serta mengenal Allah dan dalam pandangan psikologi menurut Erich Fromm adalah bahwa kebahagiaan akan didapatkan ketika kita tidak menggantungkan hidup pada orang lain maupun benda-benda, akan tetapi pada diri sendiri, dengan menjadi manusia yang aktif dan produktif.
Leadership in Context
(2021)
My studies of leadership build on the work of Sigmund Freud, Erich Fromm, and Erik Erikson. Those psychoanalysts described leaders of large groups, their personalities and relations with their followers. In my studies of leaders and experience with them, I have found that leadership is a relationship in a particular context. There are different kinds of leaders, and someone can be a leader in one context, but not in another. Furthermore, different leadership roles and different cultures call for different personality types and leadership behavior. People follow leaders for different reasons, and leaders can influence why and how they are followed. While Freud, Fromm, and Erikson only described male leaders, women are increasingly filling leadership roles, sometimes more effectively than men.
Leadership plays a critical role in the sustained success of the changes needed to reach the effectiveness objectives in an organization and in bringing out the best in people. I describe leaders who seek out their workers’ thoughts and feelings, understand them intuitively when they interact with them, versus those who take advantage of their employees’ fears of authority and their need for praise. The latter do not bring out the best in employees. Productive leadership involves the workers in designing change, and takes into account the effects on thinking and feelings the changes elicit, recognizing that not all employees respond to changes or behavior expectations the same way.
The article explores the concept of >life< via processual ontology, contrasting the approaches of substance and processual ontologies, and investigates the link between ontological assumptions and sociopolitical discourses, stating that the predominant substance ontologies also promote an objectifying and anthropocentric framework in sociopolitical discourses and ethical approaches. Arguing for a necessary shift in the ontological conceptualization of life to enable environmentally-minded ethics for the future, the article explores the tie between the sociopolitical discourses embedded in a worldview that is grounded in substance ontology and ethical frameworks. Whilst affirming this tie, this study also explicates the limitations and potential feasibility of a processual understanding of life, in the context of the existential disposition of the self-alienated lived-body self that is ontologically predisposed to objectification as a necessary pre-condition to human self-awareness.
An attempt to understand the idea of >commons< in architecture requires analytical tools and a narrative which will refer to >common values<. Yet the era of Postmodernism taught us mainly the relativism of multitudes of values, standards and paradigms. It made us used to >it all depends< approach. Many popular methods of describing architecture are based on analysing it in a historical or cultural context. This paper, however, proposes a perspective that refers to human needs which have arguably been universal for all the people in all historical periods in all cultures. This perspective could be useful particularly while dealing with big contemporary issues of >commons< in architecture – togetherness, ecology, common places and agendas. This paper proposes a framework based on the school of >positive psychology< and in particular on the unappreciated father of the Frankfurt School and critical theory – Erich Fromm who worked all his life on his comprehensive >theory of needs<. This paper proposes translating the concepts of this theory into architectural analyses and narrative. If we are to understand the essence of >commons<, we need to refer to people’s common needs. These are the key concepts of Fromm’s model. This paper is structured around what Fromm described as three basic, common needs: freedom, creativity and love. The analysis of low-tech movement will serve as an example illustrating how the lens of Erich Fromm’s theory allows better understanding of this phenomenon. The objective of this paper is to propose a new definition and narrative of the low-tech movement which will be based on a psychological framework.
Lucian Freud’s value as a painter goes much beyond his condition of being Sigmund Freud’s grandson. Experts see him as one of the key contemporary artists. His work penetrates the viewer and leaves a lasting impression, seldom related to pure aesthetic beauty. Characters in his paintings provide us with a bridge to explore human frailty and despair, and often convey us a sort of naked truth. His life deserves a close inspection to understand his creative process, his personal demons, and his complex relational life. Here we explore key episodes of his life, linking them to his preferred topics and settings. Also we try to understand how his paintings suggest possible paths to learn about his inner world. Extraordinary technical prowess combines with an uncompromising and dispassionate gaze to produce an outstanding life and work, full of ruthlessness to others, and to himself.
Theoretical conceptualizations of mentalizing postulate a close relationship between the ability to mentalize and the regulation of emotional states. The former is viewed as a key process to modulate the latter, with the origins of the link between the two established in early attachment relationships. However, there is a lack of research testing this association empirically. In the present cross-sectional study, the hypothesis of a positive relationship between the two constructs was tested based on data collected on more than 500 nonclinical adult participants. Various self-assessments and an experimentally derived instrument of mentalizing were employed to this end. Correlational analyses confirmed the expected associations between emotion regulation and mentalizing. In addition, regression models showed that adaptive as well as maladaptive emotion regulation, independent of age, gender, and native language, could be predicted only by self-focused mentalizing.
Hoy para muchos de sus intérpretes y seguidores >Escuela de Frankfurt< y >Teoría Crítica< son conceptos sinónimos que evocan más que un paradigma particular en la ciencia social actual, se refieren también más que a una pieza de una historia académica e intelectual (Wiggershaus, 1994). Aluden fundamentalmente a una innovadora mezcla de filosofía radical y ciencia social (McLaughlin, 1999), que hacia los años sesenta se transformaron, sin embargo, en una etiqueta utilizada por el emergente movimiento estudiantil alemán y con la cual designaban una relación confusa y contradictoria de ideas, experiencias y sobre todo de reivindicaciones políticas. Fue a partir de entonces que la Escuela de Frankfurt adquirió un estatus mítico en los círculos estudiantiles universitarios europeos y estadounidenses, resultado del descubrimiento que hicieron (Habermas, 1988; 141) de un conjunto de pensadores (ignorados académicamente por ellos), que convirtieron en los teóricos del >Gran Rechazo< (como Herbert Marcuse) o en los críticos radicales de las fuerzas >cosificantes< de la sociedad industrial de masas (como Horkheimer y Adorno). Hasta antes de esta experiencia político-social no existía la >Escuela< de Frankfurt y la Teoría Crítica era sólo un nombre que se refería al punto de vista asumido en la sociología alemana por Adorno y Habermas en la que se confundían la filosofía con la crítica social freudo-marxista (Wiggershaus, 1994; 3) […].
This study explores the character of Takezo the ronin in Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa through the psychological perspective of aggression. This research specifically aims to (a) explore Takezo's psychology of aggression as a ronin and (b) the impact of Takezo's aggression on others. The approaches used in this research are the psychology of literacy and the psychology of aggression. The method used is qualitative; it uses data exposure and interpretation. The data source is the novel Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa (translated version in Indonesian). The data used is in the form of text that is relevant to Takezo's psychology of aggression. The data analysis techniques are carried out in five stages, (1) identifying data related to Takezo's psychology of aggression, (2) data classification related to Takezo's psychology of aggression, (3) data presentation related to Takezo's psychology of aggression, and (4) summarizing data related to Takezo's psychology of aggression. The results showed that Takezo's aggressions are represented in the form of thoughts and behaviour. Takezo's aggressive thoughts are wanting to defeat and kill his enemies. Takezo's aggressive behaviour is killing his enemies, who are samurai. Takezo's aggressions cause the impact of physical category, and they are death and disability on the defeated samurai. Besides, in the psychological category, Takezo's aggressions cause fear and hatred in society. It is concluded that Takezo represents ronin, which desires destructive aggression that has a physical and psychological impact on others. [Author's English version]
My life with Paul Schreber
(2021)
Freud's 1911 and Niederland's 1959 problematic interpretations of Schreber's Memoirs set off a flood of secondary literature. In both selected facts were paired with a plethora of fictions. The narratives of Schreber father and son were misdescribed, misdiagnosed, and misinterpreted, errors have been uncritically copied by commentators ever since. Freud's theory of homosexuality as a cause of paranoia has not stood the test of time. In 1963 Niederland himself stated that the data he collected on Schreber father and son do not explain Schreber's second illness. A further misconception was to totalize both Schreber as person and the content of his book as psychotic, controverted by the fact that Schreber recovered by 1897 and the book is a creative essay with a profound moral message. Schreber's hermaphroditic fantasies were neither homosexual desires toward psychiatrist Flechsig nor morbid delusions but images of an identification with or compassion for his wife who suffered repeated miscarriages and stillbirths. The author revisits the description, diagnosis, dynamics, and deontology of Schreber's story from the perspective of dramatology and narratology and adds new information and insights. The goal of this essay is not only historical, but also a clinical and practical approach to fantasy and delusion.
O artigo faz uma reflexão sobre a necrofilia para compreender em parte o que tem sido o modo de agir de políticos e cidadãos/as no contexto da pandemia de Covid-19. Busca em Paulo Freire, na Pedagogia do Oprimido, e na sua fonte, Erich Fromm, O Coração do Homem, subsídios para esta compreensão. Ensaia aspectos da repercussão ética, política e educacional e indica algumas aprendizagens necessárias para o enfrentamento da necrofilia. A tese básica é a de que a necrofilia alimenta práticas que são destrutivas da vida e que se exacerbam em momentos de grave crise, como o da pandemia.
In >The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future< (1987), Riana Eisler asserts that the Neolithic societies used to follow a >partnership model< of civilization that rested on egalitarian and matrifocal values. However, over time, it gave way to the current >dominator model< that focuses on masculine ideals of superiority and dominance. It is her genuine belief that a historical transition from earlier idyllic to more aggressive cultures can be reversed in order for the matriarchal society to be constructed again in the future. This theoretical framework will be employed in the comparative analysis of two modern Serbian novels that seek a vision of feminist utopia at the end of the 20th century: Mirjana Novakovic's >The Danube’s Apocrypha< (1996) and Judita Salgo’s >A Voyage to Birobijan< (1997). Novakovic‘s short novel describes an uprising threatening to overturn the social order in the near future and has a female narrator who shares with the reader the testimony concerning a secret com-munity of women, which is >silently awaiting< its Goddess to appear. Salgo’s posthumous, unfinished novel partly reads as a proclamation of a new religious doctrine about the female Christ figure named Messiana and her ardent acolytes who spread the word about a hideaway which would serve to shelter the vulnerable and the endangered. Though the original intention of both Salgo and Novakovic was to sup-port the destitute and unprotected women of the Balkans by creating the characters and the plots reminiscent of their plight, their writing turned into an unparalleled quest for the continent of the female, a very particular Utopia. The following analysis is also based on the analytical approaches of Bloom, Eagleton, Fromm, Loentz and Pike.
Our species has deep prehistoric roots in egalitarian and antiauthoritarian bands of nomadic hunter-gatherers. As large agricultural societies develop after the Neolithic revolution 10,000 years ago, despotic rulers, social hierarchies and brutal social inequalities begin to emerge. Through the immensely long arc of the history of our species the pendulum has swung between authoritarianism and antiauthoritarianism, egalitarianism and hierarchy, cooperation and competition, collective solidarity and individual selfishness. Recognizing these oscillations is a key to understanding the political and social nature of our species. As I show, our capacity to control bullies and tyrants and our longing for autonomy and freedom have deep roots in the egalitarian ways of life of nomadic foragers that prevailed during 100,000 years of the prehistory of our species or perhaps much longer. A better understanding about what is known about this prehistory gives us reasons to believe that >the better angels of our nature< are not just historical products, but are indeed rooted in human nature.
How do we maintain our psychoanalytic footing during a frightening crisis that affects us all? How do we work effectively within a medium that most of us have not been trained for, might have little prior experience with, and that some worry is not effective? Even more daunting, how do we manage these two monumental challenges simultaneously? This paper will consider these predicaments and explore the conditions that promote useful psychoanalytic work while meeting on the phone or through videoconferencing amid a pandemic. It will include clinical material that illustrates a patient’s negative response to switching to teleanalysis and his reactions to the global pandemic, the analyst’s countertransference, and how considering their meanings allowed for the analytic work to continue and deepen.
Penelitian ini meneliti perilaku sadisme tokoh utama dalam kumpulan dongeng >Der Struwwelpeter< karya Heinrich Hoffmann. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk (1) mendeskripsikan perilaku sadisme tokoh utama dan (2) mendeskripsikan penyebab terjadinya perilaku sadisme yang dilakukan tokoh utama pada dongeng karya Heinrich Hoffman. Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian kualitatif. Sumber data penelitian adalah dongeng >Die gar traurige Geschichte mit dem Feuerzeug<, >Die Geschichte vom Daumenlutscher< dan >Die Geschichte vom bösen Friederich< dalam kumpulan dongeng >Der Struwwelpeter< karya Heinrich Hoffmann. Penelitian ini menggunakan teori sadisme Erich Fromm (2000) untuk menemukan perilaku sadisme tokoh utama serta menggunakan teori agresi Sears (1994) dan Myers (2012) untuk menganalisis alasan tokoh utama melakukan perilaku sadisme dalam dongeng. Hasil penelitian menemukan enam data yang menunjukkan jenis perilaku sadisme dan tujuh data penyebab perilaku sadisme. Ditemukan masing-masing dua data yang membuktikan perilaku sadisme tokoh utama dari setiap dongeng. Lalu terdapat empat data penyebab perilaku sadisme dari dongeng >Die gar traurige Geschichte mit dem Feuerzeug<, pada dongeng >Die Geschichte vom Daumenlutsche<r ditemukan dua data dan satu data dalam dongeng >Die Geschichte vom bösen Friederich<. Penelitian menyimpulkan bahwa (1) perilaku sadisme dalam ketiga dongeng Heinrich Hoffmann tersebut adalah perilaku sadisme non-seksual (fisik). Dalam ketiga dongeng tersebut tidak ditemukan jenis sadisme seksual maupun sadisme mental. (2) Lebih lanjut, penyebab tokoh utama dalam dongeng >Die gar traurige Geschichte mit dem Feuerzeug< melakukan perilaku sadisme adalah dari mengamati dan meniru kegiatan orang lain sedangkan dalam dongeng >Die Geschichte vom Daumenlutscher< dan >Die Geschichte vom bösen Friederich< adalah karena faktor biologis tokoh tersebut. Adapun dua kesamaan dalam ketiga dongeng tersebut, yakni semua perilaku yang dilakukan oleh tokoh utama adalah sadisme non-seksual (fisik) serta jenis agresi yang dilakukan adalah insturmental aggression.
Political Reactionism as Affective Practice: UKIP Supporters and Non‐Voters in Pre‐Brexit England
(2021)
Exploramos la vida de Erich Fromm durante los años 30, su confrontación con el Nacional Socialismo y las experiencias de su familia en el Holocausto. Relevamos el impacto de este periodo en sus escritos, especialmente El Miedo a la Libertad (Escape from Freedom). La situación política del momento, en la cual el antisemitismo se hubo incrementado y las minorías estaban siendo perseguidas hace especialmente importante el examen de la experiencia y exilio de Fromm. El autor se apoya en la historia de su propia familia alemana y en el descubrimiento del pasado nacionalsocialista de su propio abuelo para examinar la importancia del análisis de Fromm de las tendencias autoritarias en Alemania a principios de la década del 30.
Psychoanalysis and body psychotherapy: An exploration of their relational and embodied common ground
(2021)
Working therapeutically with and through embodiment is a topical issue in the psychoanalytic literature. Vice versa, body psychotherapy is deeply rooted in psychoanalytic theory and practice. This paper will explore corresponding themes, historic developments, and recent literature with reference to their actual and potential mutual influences, aiming to demonstrate: (1) that contemporary body psychotherapy practice continues to be informed and influenced by psychoanalytic theory, in particular the relational emphasis in psychoanalysis; and (2) that psychoanalytic psychotherapy, in turn, can be enriched and furthered while utilizing the theoretical paradigm of embodiment and body-oriented, experiential intervention strategies developed in body psychotherapy.
Authoritarianism is the psychological mechanism of man to escape from the negative aspects of freedom in the society. Fromm believes that man surrenders to a superior power to escape the suffering of decision-making. Consequently, through authoritarianism man suffers from three opposing feelings: either one surrenders with a sense of powerlessness to a superior power (masochism), or one has arrogance and a sense of domination over others (sadism), and sometimes one communicates with the society through a masochistic-sadistic coexistence which leads to the loss of individual freedom and independence. In Behbahani’s poems, these mechanisms are manifested in the community around Simin with two approaches of submission and domination in their mild forms. Using an analytical-descriptive method, this paper examines the psychological mechanisms for escaping from the negative aspects of freedom in Behbahani’s poems from Eric Fromm’s perspective. The findings show that in Simin Behbahani’s poems – as Fromm asserts – she surrenders to a powerful whole that is sometimes the sacred love and sometimes destiny (fatalism) and sometimes the earthly love of Simin whom she cannot resist. Furthermore, occasionally in her poems, Simin goes so far as to dominate her beloved by asking God to be able to inflict endless psychological suffering on him through absolute domination.
The Frankfurt School was the first school to discern the roles of the media in shaping human thought, influencing politics, and increasing the insatiable demand of consumers in capitalist societies. The analysis brought to the fore by Adorno and Horkheimer regarding the >Culture Industry< illustrated a model of media as tools of hegemony and social control advanced by Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, and Jürgen Habermas. The School also examined the repercussions of mass culture and the rise of the consumer society on the proletariat that was aimed to be the instrument of revolution in the classical Marxian scenario. Another thing that was analyzed is how the culture industries and consumer society were considered as stabilizing forces of contemporary capitalism. Therefore, they were among the first to see the expansion of communication and mass media roles in politics, socialization and social life, culture, and the construction of docile subjects as Foucault puts it. In the present article, I review the contributions to media and social theory advanced by the Frankfurt School. The integration of psychoanalysis, aesthetic theory and the critique of mass culture, and the critique of the Enlightenment are the main components discussed in the present article.
Reassessing Wilhelm Reich’s Mass Psychology: Libidinality, Authoritarianism and the Rise of Fascism
(2021)
Explanations for the contemporary rise of fascistic attitudes and activism solely in terms of historical, political, and socioeconomic determinants, because they tend to assume the individual is a >rational actor< , are often limited in their capacity to account for the significance of individual enchantment with, and passion for, authoritarian movements. The article argues for the urgent need for greater understanding of the psychodynamic allure of fascist and authoritarian politics. In this context, Wilhelm Reich’s 1933 essay, >The Mass Psychology of Fascism<, is reassessed. It is suggested that he presents a valid and profoundly significant thesis when he points to the connections among the attraction and ardor for fascism, societal oppression of sexuality, and the individual’s libidinal inhibitions, conflicts, and frustrations. But his essay needs substantial correction and modification in three respects: (1) His ideas about >natural sexuality<; (2) his assumptions about matriarchal bliss; and (3) his pervasive heteronormativity or homophobia. The critique of these three aspects is primarily theoretical but also touches on Reich’s life history to the extent that it contextualizes his blind spots. Finally, it is suggested that, in subsequent psychoanalytic writings on the dynamics of authoritarianism and the rise of fascism (from Theodor Adorno and Erich Fromm, to Christina Wieland and Jonathan Sklar), far too little attention has been paid to the libidinal underpinnings of these phenomena, to which Reich’s thesis should draw our attention.
During the psychoanalytic discovery and investigation of Psychoneurosis, theoretical scaffoldings offered by Freudian theory were expansive and rich but still incomplete. Amongst the Neo-Freudians, Fromm began unearthing the psychopathology of the society under the heavy influence of Marx. Fromm remarked that the grown-up patient was not a child but an alienated adult who was seen as the neurotic. Feelings of inadequacy, worthlessness and inhibition occurred because the patient did not experience himself as the subject and originator of his own acts and experiences. Alienation had thus caused the neuroses to occur. Ushering in >spiritual liberation< along with complete change of the >economic social constellation< for Fromm were the necessary prerequisites before envisioning a cure of societal pathologies rooted in the contemporary mode of production. Freud on the other hand was skeptical about the application of psychoanalysis to civilization. He ringed in caution to the application of systems of knowledge developed at the individual level when projected to more global levels. Diagnosis of a >collective neurosis< would be tedious since no starting point associated with its development could emerge as the fixation point. Another hurdle that needed to be addressed according to Freud was that even if a substantial system of knowledge did take shape its implementation would be a herculean task. It would take great skill and courage to compel a community to become aware of its blind spots and become available to therapy. Thus, the growth and development of Psychoneurosis had charted a trajectory from the unexplored abysmal depths of the psyche to the more gross levels of societal productions. This paper attempts to establish links between the classic concept of Psychoneurosis and the larger gamut of modern-day society’s psychic reflections.