This paper focuses on the problem of >consumer alienation<, which forms and impedes the welfare of consumers in modern consumption society. In order to reconceptualize the consumer alienation, the paper delves into the existing discussions by philosophers including Hegel, Marx, Lukács, Fromm, and the Frankfurt School, and positivists such as Seeman, Dean, and others. By rediscovering existing discussions of alienation, the paper defines consumer alienation as >the heteronomic phenomenon that instrumentalize consumers to function as means to fulfill the capitalism, which results in the impediment of consumers’ autonomic decision-making<. The authors expect that the study contribute to the conceptualization of various problems evolved from modern consumer society by employing the concept of consumer alienation.
In 1960s, realist films such as >The Coachman< by Gang Daejin and >An Aimless Bullet< by Yu Hyeonmok depicted with sympathy the poverty-stricken life and desperate circumstances of working class in urban area after war whereas >Hanyeo< [>The Housemaid<] by Kim Giyoeng sternly and sharply analyzed the middle class as well as the working class without emotional involvement as to what kind of economic relationship they had in industrial capitalism and as to what kind of psychological symptoms were induced by the economic relationship. Moreover, the characters in >The Coachman< and >A Aimless Bullet< were those who could not get away from traditional way of thinking and traditional life style whereas the characters in The Housemaid were completely new people who were cut off from traditional way of thinking and traditional life style. >Hanyeo< presented that all desires and impulses of the characters who lived in the society of industrial capitalism were completely dominated by the principles of capitalism. Unfortunately, however, the characters in the movie were not aware of such circumstances and problems of theirs at all, and consequently, they could not avoid their misery and devastation. It is not easy to find a film using such an unique motive in the history of Korean films. Moreover …
Welcome Speech
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Vom Zirkusprojekt zum zirkuspädagogischen Konzept: Ein Spiel-, Sport- und Bewegungsunterricht
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The subjectivity of the mother in the mother–son relationship. Attachment, separation, and autonomy
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Fromm (1900- 1980), the well-known German psychologist and creative continuator of the psychoanalysis current. In particular, she focuses on one of Fromm's principal works, Flight from Freedom, in which he had analysed the mechanisms inducing people to eschew independent thinking and submit to an authority demanding blind obedience. In constructing his system, he derived inspiration from the Biblical tradition, Freud and Marx, whilst approaching them critically from the very outset. Fromm has also presented his recipe for the building of a 'healthy society', based on the harmonious development of individuals in an environment permitting complete self-fulfilment within the bounds of respect for the freedom of others.
Three waves of challenges may be perceived from within psychoanalysis to its reductionist attitude to religion and spirit. These historical challenges from within psychoanalysis are an important context for reading the many papers now being published on spirituality and psychotherapy, and increasingly, spirituality and psychoanalysis. The 1st wave began with some of Freud's contemporaries, among them his friend, the psychoanalyst and pastor Oscar Pfister; the Nobel Laureate Romain Rolland, and the poet T. S. Eliot. Challenges continued after Freud's death: In Britain from psychoanalysts such as Rickman and Guntrip, and in America initially by the European immigrants, Erikson and Fromm. British independent psychoanalysts initiated what may be considered to be the 3rd wave, whose momentum is now swelling to a sea change.
The broken symbol: The fear of the mind of the other in the symbolic history of the individual
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Celem artykułu jest próba empirycznej weryfikacji pogladów Ericha Fromma dotyczacych konstruktywnych i destruktywnych czynników psychiki ludzkiej. Fromm nazywa je syndromem >wzrostu< i syndromem >rozpadu< przypisujac im zasadnicze znaczenie w rozwoju człowieka. Teoria ta nie została potwierdzona badaniami, choc sam Fromm sugerował ich przeprowadzenie.
More than fifty years after Erich Fromm’s >The Sane Society< was first published, it remains an important work, surprisingly contemporary in scope, with particular relevance to scholars working in social theory and media studies. Fromm’s primary emphasis is on evaluating the sanity of contemporary western societies, which he suggests often deny its citizens’ basic human needs of productive activity, self-actualisation, freedom, and love. He suggests that the mental health of a society cannot be assessed in an abstract manner but must focus on specific economic, social, and political factors at play in any given society and should consider whether these factors contribute to insanity or are conducive to mental stability. Ultimately >The Sane Society< provides a radical critique of democratic capitalism that goes below surface symptoms to get to the root causes of alienation and to suggest ways to transform contemporary societies to further the productive activities of its citizens. Fromm envisions the refashioning of democratic capitalist societies based on the tenants of communitarian socialism, which stresses the organisation of work and social relations between its citizens rather than on issues of ownership.
Erich FROMM's work in psychology and social theory includes an analysis of the contradiction in Sigmund Freud's thought between bourgeois patriarchal morality and radical demystification; however, FROMM's work contains its own contradiction between generative theory of social character and an idealistic concept of the >productive< individual. FROMM introduced the concept of >social character<, basing it on existential necessities imposed by the socioeconomic system, and interpreted Freud's theories as revealing some of the motivational basis for the individual's pursuit of this imposed behavior, while rejecting Freud's pessimistic concept of human nature. However, FROMM's concept of the productive person is an ideal type without clinical or historical grounding. It does not offer an adequate basis for resolving the problems of neurotics, but in fact is likely to encourage submission to them, blocking the attainment of positive relationships to social institutions and situations.
Psychoanalysis and Intersubjectivity. Sullivan, Fromm, Merleau-Ponty, Benjamin, and Stolorow,
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Prólogo
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Principles of coparticipant inquiry: An introductory outline and implications for therapeutic action
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On Perseus
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Naturerleben
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