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이 글의 주된 목적은 행복 담론의 빛과 그림자를 밝히는 것이다. 이 과정에서 나는 자유의 최대화와 폭력의 최소화에 기여하는 행복론을 지향한다. 이를 위해 나는 먼저 자유와 폭력의 변증법적 관계를 기초로(1), 에피쿠로스와 아리스토텔레스의 행복론을 비판적으로 검토한다. 이 과정에서 나는 행복론이 불행한 의식에 빠지지 않으려면 행복과 불행의 이분법을 벗어나야 하며(2), 목적이나 수단이 아니라 과정으로서 행복을 권리의 지평에서 정당화해야 한다는 입장을 제시한다(3). 나아가 나는 프롬과 마르쿠제의 긍정 심리학과 부정 심리학의 경계에서 행복론이 상실된 자아를 찾아가는 과정이 되어야 한다고 논증한다(4). 마지막으로 나는 행복 담론이 자기침잠과 자기연민에서 나와 바깥으로 나아가는 과정이 되어야 한다는 것을 밝힌다(5).
전통유교와 현대 자유주의의 핵심적 대립은 ‘자아실현’에 대한 상이한 이해에서 비롯되는 것이었다. ‘자아실현’은 동서고금 누구나 원하는간절한 소망이라 할 수 있다. 문제는 ‘자아실현’란 본래 두 차원에서 이해할 수 있다는 점이다. 우리는 자신만의 독특한 개성을 실현하고자 원할 수도 있고, 인간의 보편적 본성을 실현하고자 원할 수도 있다. 그런데 개인의 독특한 개성만을 강조하고 인간의 보편적 본성을 무시한다면, 그 때의 자아실현이란 프롬⋅매킨타이어⋅테일러 등이 지적한 것처럼 ‘소외, 자아도취, 멋대로 자유’ 등 각종 폐단을 야기하는 것이다. 그렇다면 우리는 ‘인간의 보편적 본성’에 기초하여 ‘개인의 독특한 개성’을 발휘할 때만이 참다운 자아실현이라고 할 수 있을 것이다. 이는 인륜의 한계를 넘지 않는 범위에서 자유를 누린다는 뜻이요, 또한 가치의 객관적 척도를 존중한다는 뜻이다. 우리는 그 모범적 사례를 공자의 ‘和而不同’이나 ‘從心所欲不踰矩’에서 찾을 수 있다.
프롬과 마르쿠제에 의하면 우리사회의 소외문제가 심각히 대두된 배후에는 기술과 과학의 전체주의적 속성과 자본주의적 산업논리가 기술을 동원하여 인간과 사회를 폭력적으로 지배하는데 그 핵심에 있다고 보았다. 아울러 두 철학자간 유사성은 다음과 같다: 1, 사회과학적 방법론과 정신분석학을 접목시키는 학제간 연구를 연구방법론으로 채택, 2, 존재론적 측면에서 현실과 초월적 세계의 2원론적 구조를 취함, 3. 현대 기술사회를 반이성적이고 반생명적으로 봄. 또한 이들은 건전한 사회를 위한 구상 및 전망에 있어서도, 혁명적 인간상을 통해 구현하고자 하였다는 데 그 유사성을 보인다. 본 연구는 마르쿠제와 프롬 사이의 이견에도 다음과 같이 정리하였다 : 1, >소외< 개념에 있어서 마르쿠제는 일종의 퇴행이자 해결해야하는 사회구조적 병폐로 보고 있는 반면에 프롬은 마르쿠제와 달리 >사회적 병폐로서의 소외<로만 분류하지 않고 >존재론적 문제로서의 소외<로도 이해하고 있다.2, >자연< 개념을 두고 볼 때, 마르쿠제는 자연 낙관주의적 관점을 갖지만 프롬은 인간이 극복해야하는 대상으로서 인간의 삶에 부정적 대상으로 파악한다. 3, 마르쿠제는 >기술<을 원칙적으로 긍정적으로 보고 있다. 단지, 선진 산업사회의 제도적 합리성이 기술의 사용을 왜곡시키고 있다고 보았던 것에 반해, 프롬은 기술 자체를 일종의 중립적 대상으로 보고 있다.
우리나라의 근대 학교교육은 초기에는 생존을 위한 기술을 중시하였고, 생존의 문제가 어느 정도 해결되자 경제적인 부(富)와 명예를 보장하는 지식을 중시하였다. 보다 유용한 지식의 추구에서 경쟁이 일상화되었고 이로 인해 여러 부분에서의 발전이 이루어졌으나 간과할 수 없는 격차와 소외 또한 발생하였다. 본고에서는 Erich Fromm이 『소유냐 존재냐』에서 경고한 바와 같이 현재 학교와 사회가 직면하고 있는 인간소외 현상은 교육이 지식을 소유하고 소비하는 대상으로 간주하여 발생하는 것으로 보았다. 이를 극복하기 위해서는 존재에 관심을 돌려 교육주체의 체험과 실천을 통해 주체를 성장하게 하고 그들이 자신들의 존재를 찾고 삶의 의미를 구성하는데 주력해야 하는데 가장 적절한 수단으로 Jerome S. Bruner가 논의한 내러티브를 탐구하였다. 본 연구는 1980년대 중반 Bruner의 인식론에 변화가 생긴 시기를 기점으로 전기의 대표적인 교육이론인 ‘지식의 구조’와 후기의 대표적인 교육이론인 ‘내러티브’의 특징과 상호관련성을 살펴보았고 내러티브가 학교교육에 주는 시사점을 고찰하였다.
상담자는 내담자의 역기능을 탐색하여 내담자의 내적 요인인 핵심 인격을 올바른 방향으로 변화시키려고 노력하는 자이다. 상담이 내담자의 인격 변 화를 목표로 한다면 상담자는 바람직하고 성숙한 인격이 무엇인지 알고 있 어야 한다. 따라서 본 연구는 그리스도인의 성숙한 인격은 어떤 특성이어야 하는 지 연구하기 위해 성경적 관점에서의 인격이해를 살펴보았다. 또한 일 반심리학적 관점에서는 정신분석이론, 사회심리학, 그리고 성장상담학적 관 점을 중심으로 살펴보았으며, 기독교 상담학적 관점으로는 몽고메리와 쉐릴, 그리고 심수명의 견해를 중심으로 성숙한 인격에 대하여 고찰하였다. 그리고 인간은 이 땅에서는 은혜입은 죄인이기에 온전한 인격성숙에 도달 할 수 없다는 전제를 바탕으로 성숙한 인격에 대하여 다음과 같이 정리하였다. 첫째, 성숙한 사람은 십자가의 은혜와 하나님을 의지함이 없이는 한 순간도 살아갈 수 없음을 아는 자이다. 둘째, 성숙한 사람은 아가페 사랑을 근거로 자신과 타인을 사랑하는 자이다. 셋째, 성숙한사람은영성을중심으로지, 정, 의등전인의통합을추구하는 자이다.넷째, 성숙한 사람은 영적인 성숙을 바탕으로 가면적, 내면적, 관계적 인격이 조화롭게 균형 잡힌 자이다. 다섯째, 성숙한 사람은 신적 자존감을 가지고 자신과 타인을 존중하는 자이다.여섯째, 성숙한 사람은 자신의 과거와 현재를 정리하고 미래에 어떤 삶을 살아야 할지 분명한 목표의식을 가지고 살아가는 자이다.일곱째, 성숙한 사람은 유연하고 개방적인 사고를 하며 현실 상황을 객관 적으로 파악할 수 있는 자이다.여덟째, 성숙한 사람은 성경에 근거한 하나님의 뜻을 실현하는 것을 최고 의 목표로 삼는 자이다. 위의 연구 결과는 성숙한 그리스도인을 세우기 위한 과정에 도움이 될 것이다.
Впервые в истории мировой философии Фромм рассматривает человека в социально-психологическом аспекте. В данной статье анализируется его концепция здорового общества и душевно здорового человека, акцентируется внимание на социально-психологическом подходе к социальному характеру человека. При демократическом преобразовании общества Фромм предлагает учитывать не только экономические, политические и социальные изменения, происходящие в обществе, но и внутренние социально-психологические перемены, возникающие в социальном характере человека. Фромм рассматривает человека в целостности его существования.
В статье анализируются работы зарубежных и отечественных теоретиков личности, представляющих различные психологические направления, в которых присутствует обращение к проблеме зависти. Проблема зависти обсуждается в рамках классического психоанализа (З. Фрейд, М. Кляйн), индивидуальной психологии (А. Адлер), аналитической психологии (К. Юнг), концепции гуманистического психоанализа (Э. Фромм), социокультурной теории (К. Хорни), эго-теории (Э. Эриксон, А. Питерс), диспозиционального направления (Г. Олпорт, Р. Кеттелл), гуманистической психологии (А. Маслоу), экзистенциональной психологии (В. Франкл). Показывается, что в отечественных теориях личности проблема зависти находит свое отражение в трудах А.А. Бодалева, В.Н. Мясищева, В.Н. Панферова, А.В. Петровского. Цель. Осуществить анализ психологических теорий личности на предмет выявления специфики представлений о психологической сущности и истоках зависти. Метод. Теоретический анализ и систематизация научных данных. Результаты. Выявлена разрозненность и неоднородность научных пред-ставлений о зависти, что, с одной стороны, позволяет взглянуть на нее с разных углов зрения, а с другой – противодействует интеграции знаний о зависти в единую теоретическую систему.
В статье рассматриваются особенности современных пограничных ситуаций в экзистенции, прослеживается раскрытие термина >пограничная ситуация<, введенного К. Ясперсом. Сопоставляются позиции экзистенциалистов Н.А. Бердяева, Л.И. Шестова, М. де Унамуно, Ж.-П. Сартра, В. Франкла, Э. Фромма. Делается вывод о том, что пограничная ситуация в экзистенции является вызовом личности, пробуждением его эмоционального мира через переживание страдания, условием становления человека и проверкой его ценностей, характера и воли.
В статье рассматривается использование марксисткой концепции отчуждения в >Обществе спектакля< Ги Дебора для описания ситуации, возникшей в ХХ веке, когда появились новые формы отчуждения, основанные на навязывании престижных потребностей. Именно консьюмеризм становится важнейшей опорой существующего порядка. Ги Дебор считает, что общество потребления можно одновременно описать и как общество спектакля, который стал тотальным. Концепция Ги Дебора рассматривается в контексте предшествовавшей и последующей историографии: работ Т. Веблена, Г. Маркузе, Э. Фромма.
Мелани Кляйн (1882-1960) – представитель английского психоанализа. После формирования классического психоанализа Фрейда дальнейшее его развитие пошло сразу по нескольким направлениям. Одно из них – неофрейдизм (Г. Олпорт, Э. Фромм, К. Хорни). Сторонники этого направления упрекали Фрейда в том, что он мало внимания уделял социальным аспектам. В статье делается попытка реконструкции детского поведения согласно открытиям Мелани Кляйн.
Сколько бы дальновидным не старался быть человек, его деятельность в большинстве случаев определяет не только его прогресс и успехи, но и новообразование проблем физического и психического характера. Психическое вмешательство не оценено, не имея под собой однозначной антропологической модели для оценки такого воздействия. На основе рассуждений Эриха Фромма о незавершенности человеческой природы сравнены два терапевтических направления: классический психоанализ и психосинтез. Принципы и методы психоаналитической практики, соотнесенные с антропологическими представлениями Эриха Фромма, являются более безопасными для человеческой антропологической неопределенности, чем психосинтез. Это преимущественно определено отсутствием в психоанализе нормальных типов и подходом к проблеме со стороны изучения патологий. Изучения в данной области должны определить развитие терапевтических направлений и вывести на первый план ряд философских вопросов о человеке.
Психика человека постоянно порождает процесс очеловечивания. На земле, в небесах и на море она усматривает присутствие образа человека. Вот почему, если исходить из общей антропологической теории, а не только из соображений, навеянных концептуальным осмыслением телевидения, на экране постоянно нужен человек. Никакая выгородка, никакая бутафория, никакое множество безличной информации не может заместить потребности видеть на мерцающем квадрате живое человеческое лицо. Такова магия персонификации... Автор показывает, что это не прихоть, а всепоглощающая страсть. Может быть, это вообще глубинная человеческая потребность, некое универсальное свойство хомо сапиенс. Но правомерно ли выделять только это качество? Ведь, возможно, есть и иные, не менее значимые? Многие философы, в том числе А. Шопенгауэр, К. Ясперс, Э. Фромм и другие, пытались осмыслить природу человеческих потребностей. В статье выделяются главные человеческие потребности. Потребность в выживании, самосохранении, продолжении рода, что и говорить – важное дело. Не станешь помышлять о персонификации, если над тобой нависла угроза голода, смерти, стихийного бедствия. Все правильно. Но инстинкт самосохранения заметен у каждого животного. Нужда в пище, сексуальность, по мнению Шопенгауэра, все это естественные склонности. Потребности эти не специфически человеческие.
В статье предпринята попытка раскрыть сущность, причины и формы процессов деиндивидуализации человека в ситуации глобального социально-антропологического кризиса. В современную эпоху человек попадает в зависимость от различных форм деиндивидуализации (политических, экономических, медийных, религиозных, бытовых). Многообразие экономического предложения или политический плюрализм не обеспечивают индивидуальную свободу выбора, а, скорее, маскируют несвободу. Мыслители, писавшие о деиндивидуализации человека, выделяли в качестве главной причины неспособность и нежелание ориентироваться на возвышающие ценности. В гонке за успехом человек не может найти себя. Ни гиперторофированное Я, ни растворённое Я не приносит человеку счастья. Подобная трагическая альтернатива лежит в основе многообразных девиантных проявлений, столь частых в современном обществе. Суть процессов деиндивидуализации состоит в том, что общество в массовом масштабе подталкивает человека превращать свою личность в средство достижения успеха. Саморазвитие личности становится в этом случае фактором побочным.
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(2013)
Neste artigo pretende-se analisar certos xingamentos utilizados por falantes do dialeto alemão hunsrückisch de uma comunidade rural da região noroeste do Rio Grande do Sul. À luz da concepção psicolinguística de Steven Pinker (2008) sobre o xingamento e da teoria do inconsciente social de Erich Fromm (1992), pretende-se analisar as formas arcaicas destes xingamentos e buscar em que medida ainda mantêm conexões com estímulos do pensamento medieval retido no inconsciente social desta comunidade.
In the article problems connected with possibilities of analyzing human behavior in context of propensities were discussed. Main focus was put on differences in propensities with respect to sex, also in context of E. Fromm’s personality theory. Methodological issues related to propensities were presented. Definition of propensity and methods of measuring propensities were also proposed. In empirical example differences in propensity to smoke cigarettes and propensity to drink alcohol with respect to sex in Polish voivodeships in year 2004 were estimated. Also, econometric models explaining that kind of propensities were introduced.
The author makes an attempt to reconstruct profiles of a modern humanist on the basis of statements entangled into the press and social discourse. The starting point is E. Fromm’s conception related to the productive and mercenary orientation that constitute the reflection of the social context of the texts under investigation. While conducting an analysis, the author uses the tools of cultural linguistics such as perspective, point of view, profiling and a linguistic image of the world, as well as the assumptions of axiological semantics.
Is psychoanalysis scientific? Which Oedipus is the >correct< Oedipus? Questions like these have divided psychoanalysis and fueled debates about it since its inception. In this paper, I explore these issues by outlining and adopting an >intertextual< perspective, not to answer such questions but to establish a metatheoretical position that might enable us to step outside of them to consider the broader relationship between theory, myth, literature, and the clinical session. I discuss how concepts such as narcissism and the Oedipal arrangement signify a deeper need for affiliation beyond the content of the myth itself but from within the psychoanalytic field; that they provide a flexible resource but also accrete a historical residue presenting as inertia against a unified psychoanalytic approach. In doing so, the term theory drift is developed to argue that psychoanalytic theory might in part develop through idiosyncratic >etymological< processes that reflect an obligation to retain concepts such as Oedipus and a reluctance to break with existing forms and practices. Finally, I discuss emergence and how it signifies the imponderability of the literary and clinical material with which psychoanalysis works, and look to actor network theory to conceptualize the fluid, intertextual networks within which we exist.
What would Erich Fromm say about North Korea? A preliminary
application of humanist psychoanalysis
(2013)
This paper considers the possibility of applying the sociologically oriented humanist psychoanalysis of Erich Fromm to the evaluation of the political character of the North Korean state and society, with particular attention given to Fromm's concepts of the matricentric complex and patricentric complex, as well as to his analysis of fascism and Stalinism. The author explains that if humanist psychoanalysis is consistently applied, North Korea can be understood as a transitional postcolonial Stalinist state with a patricentric social order that exploits the matricentric complex for mass control.
Rand’s triadic model is particularly germane to understanding Fitzgerald’s Bernice Bobs Her Hair. I will discuss Fitzgerald’s characters, their worlds, and beliefs in terms of the conflicts between the three types of people: >Being,< >Having,< and >Doing.< I will also explain why Fitzgerald presents his characters the way he does and examine how Rand’s theory influences his narrative point of view.
The intention of the author is to further the knowledge on pain, based on a review of the concept of psychic pain as found in Freud, Klein, Bion, and French authors, with the objective of clarifying as far as possible the nature and vicissitudes of pain. After this review, the author describes a case in which she proposes that psychic pain is made up of three essential elements: the first is the overflowing of great quantities that cannot be contained; the second is an intense and immediate defense to protect the psychic apparatus from destruction; and the third is the >return of the foreclosed.< At the end of the paper, the author makes her final, subjective considerations.
This article probes psychoanalytic theory regarding the repercussions of traumatic experiences in memory function. Both memory and trauma are fundamental to psychoanalysis and lead to the psyche's constitution as well as to its limits. The relationship between trauma and memory, based mainly on an aspect beyond the pleasure principle, points toward a function at the limits of the psychic, something between the body and the psyche, between perception and representation – all of which is responsible for psychic differentiation. Trauma has been associated with death drive dynamics and automatic anxiety, which constantly require a prior link to the establishment of the pleasure principle. When there is no possibility of linking and transcribing an event, its effects are negative, that is, it causes narcissistic damage. Ferenczi considers the object's role to be the determinant as far as an event's traumatic fate is concerned. When the object cannot accommodate the subject's needs or assign some meaning to the traumatic experience, introjection and psychic inscription are interrupted. We suggest that the lack of intersubjective recognition occasions the nonrepresentation and the meaninglessness that emerge as corporeal acts during psychoanalytic treatment.
Particularly due to technical innovations, we are witnessing an unbounding of reality that increasingly is reflected in an inner striving to get rid of the limitations and boundaries of our own personality by reconstructing it anew. This pursuit of de-limitation, dissolution and blurring of boundaries is seen as a central character trait of the Ego-oriented social character. Such a fabrication of a limitless per-sonality doubtless results in a weakening of such psychic abilities as experiencing one’s self as a consistent and ambiguous entity, being emotionally attached to oneself and to others, feeling one’s own strivings, affects and emotions, and being guided by one’s internalized norms and values. Lastly, the impact of this character formation is discussed in regard to clinical and therapeutic issues.
This thesis attempts to advance the underappreciated thought of Erich Fromm as both a crucial contribution to twentieth century intellectual history and a potentially pivotal point from which to transcend current theoretical impasses. In particular, I argue that Fromm's radical humanism can participate in the rejuvenation of contemporary social theory, which is still largely constrained by the dual reductionism of positivism and poststructuralism, and that a return to it will encourage renewed theorising of, and empirical engagement with, the connections that obtain between the >psychological< and the >social<, the >essential< and the >constructed<, and the >is< and the >ought<. I try to show that Fromm's qualified essentialism and ethical normativism are sensible, viable, and desirable, and that they, coupled with his analytic social psychology, which is based on his underlying humanism and elaborated through a unique fusion of Marx and Freud, provide the basis for the development of practical strategies to realise humanism in the world. Perhaps above all, I try to show that there is a deceptive complexity and sophistication to Fromm's ideas, which are all too often taken as simple and naive.
In 1950, Elihu Katz submitted his MA thesis called >The Happiness Game – A Content Analysis of Radio Fan Mail< at Columbia University. It was supervised by Leo Löwenthal, and drew on recently published work by Paul Lazarsfeld, Robert Merton, and Erich Fromm. The topic for the thesis came from Löwenthal, who, as Katz now recalls, was then preparing to become Director of Research for Voice of America. Somehow, he obtained from CBS, perhaps through Lazarsfeld, several thousand letters sent in to the network during the early months of 1948. He was interested in letters sent by listeners in anticipation of such mail landing on his desk in his new position. The letters were sorted into different bundles and assigned to various graduate students for analysis. It was a happy chance that the bundle assigned to Katz were letters sent in by listeners (overwhelmingly female) in response to a request from a popular radio broadcaster of the day, Ted Malone. Malone asked regular listeners to his daytime show to note whenever they felt happy across the whole of February 1948 (a leap-year) and, at the end of the month, to send him a letter telling of their happiest day. Over two thousand letters were received, and from this, a sample of 236 letters was selected and submitted to a careful content analysis which formed the substance of the thesis. Immediately following this, Katz entered the doctoral program in the Department of Sociology and began to work with Lazarsfeld, a collaboration which culminated in Katz’s work on the Decatur survey material that Lazarsfeld had commissioned in 1943. It became his doctoral thesis and was published as >Personal Influence< (1955), co-authored by Katz and Lazarsfeld – a landmark in American sociological literature.
Erich Fromm analyzed how man is divided in his sense of true self. This division within forces him to cling to abstract and concrete entities outside of himself and Fromm calls this >transference< which he, after all, borrowed from Freud. This transferring of man’s individuality to outside forces brings temporary relief to his experience of powerlessness and loneliness. The transference makes man acquire a masochistic character wherein he submits himself to outside irrational forces that perpetually dehumanize him. This is the reason why his ethics is a struggle to bring back the power of man within, nursing his potentialities to change himself and transform his world. Ethics, for Fromm, is a form of normativity which leads man into freedom to fully actualize his own sense of self.
The long term perspective
(2013)
The journal >Psyche – Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse und ihre Anwedungen<: A historical overview
(2013)
The author presents a historical overview of the evolution of the German journal Psyche, starting from its foundation by Alexander Mitscherlich, Felix Schottlaender, and Hans Kunz in 1946. After the gradual reorientation of Psyche in the direction of being a purely psychoanalytic journal, Mitscherlich became its sole editor in 1969. In the 1980s, Psyche played a central role in the discussion and working-through of the German analysts' involvement in the National Socialist Regime. In 1997, Werner Bohleber followed Margarete Mitscherlich as editor-in-chief. Psyche, the only monthly psychoanalytic journal in the world, keeps not only documenting, but also shaping the main developments taking place in our field, on both a national and an international level. As far as the last 20 years are concerned, the journal has also played a central role in the debate conducted in and outside Germany in terms of empirical research in psychoanalysis and the dialogue with the neurosciences.
Since the concept of imaginative elaboration of body functioning, which is essential to Winnicott's idea of psyche-soma, has rarely been investigated up to now, this article sets out to do this and tries to pursue the meaning and articulation of that concept in the corpus of Winnicott's theory. In this way, it contributes to bringing the body to the core of psychoanalytical theory.
This article deals with the six German-Jewish psychoanalysts who fled from Nazi Germany to the Netherlands in the 1930s. Watermann and Landauer perished in the German concentration camps. Levy-Suhl survived the German occupation of the Netherlands but died soon after. Reik went on to the USA before World War II. Lampl and Keilson lived and worked in the Netherlands for the rest of their lives.
Sullivan Integrated
(2013)
The author sees H.S. Sullivan's (1892–1949) interpersonal theory as the best theoretical framework for the contemporary intersubjective perspective in psychoanalysis and presents the former in its pluridimensional articulation. After having extended Freud's therapeutic approach to psychotic patients, Sullivan developed both a developmental psychology and a psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic technique based on the >interpersonal field< as the basic unit of study. To the pluridimensional character of his theory also belongs its application to the cultural and social aspects of our personal identity. Having the contemporary psychoanalytic authors who shaped the intersubjective perspective limited themselves to the clinical dimension, Sullivan's interpersonal theory can still provide the theoretical framework that any psychoanalytic perspective needs.
The author sees H.S. Sullivan's (1892–1949) interpersonal theory as the best theoretical framework for the contemporary intersubjective perspective in psychoanalysis and presents the former in its pluridimensional articulation. After having extended Freud's therapeutic approach to psychotic patients, Sullivan developed both a developmental psychology and a psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic technique based on the >interpersonal field< as the basic unit of study. To the pluridimensional character of his theory also belongs its application to the cultural and social aspects of our personal identity. Having the contemporary psychoanalytic authors who shaped the intersubjective perspective limited themselves to the clinical dimension, Sullivan's interpersonal theory can still provide the theoretical framework that any psychoanalytic perspective needs.
Bakalářská práce se zabývá filozofií tří významných filozofů Ericha Fromma, Viktora Emanuela Frankla a Alberta Camuse. Práce je rozdělena do čtyř kapitol, ve kterých se vždy zabývám jedním problémem z pohledu všech zmíněných autorů. V závěru kapitoly je určité shrnutí těchto myšlenek a nalezení podobných znaků jejich filozofie. První kapitola je věnována problému autentického způsobu lidské existence. Ve druhé kapitole se zabývám tématem svobody, a to především, zda je či není absolutní svoboda možná. Následující kapitola řeší otázku lidské společnosti a jejího vlivu na člověka. Poslední kapitola představuje problém smrti a sebevraždy. V závěru práce jsem se pokusila o shrnutí společných bodů filozofie již zmíněných filozofů.
This paper explores psychosocially young unemployed men’s resistance to work they describe as ‘embarrassing’ and ‘feminine’. The context is the closure of a steelworks in a town in the South Wales valleys, in which their resistance is mediated by father–son relationships that dictate what counts as proper manly work. In this study, young men, as well as their mothers and (where possible) their fathers, were interviewed. The interviews reveal a community suffering the effects of intergenerational trauma and riven with complex feelings about masculinity and femininity. These feelings are projected onto the young men, who feel bullied and shamed by their families, peers and others in the community because they are unable to find gender-appropriate work. The implications of these findings for un-derstanding youth male unemployment are considered.
Review Kakar, S.: >Kultur und Psyche. Psychoanalyse im Dialog mit nicht-westlichen Gesellschaften<
(2013)
Review Friedman, L. J.: The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love's Prophet: The Art of Being Erich Fromm
(2013)
Although the once wildly popular writings of Erich Fromm have fallen into desuetude in the 21st century, Fromm remains a relevant figure for anyone interested in the interpenetrating fields of psychoanalysis, cultural criticism, personal spiritual development and civic engagement in domestic and international affairs. For that reason, his thought is eminently worthy of being revisited. At least that is the claim of Lawrence J. Friedman in his new biography, >The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love’s Prophet<.
Review Borgogno, F.: >The girl who committed hara-kiri and other clinical and historical essays<
(2013)
Review Borgogno, F.: >The girl who committed hara-kiri and other clinical and historical essays<
(2013)
A tanulmány áttekinti a pszichoanalízis társadalomképének, a társadalmi és politikai folyamatokról alkotott felfogásának változásait az elmúlt több mint egy évszázadban. A frankfurti iskola >kritikai elméletéből<, Adorno, Erich Fromm és Wilhelm Reich munkásságából kiindulva foglalkozik a hatalmi orientáció, illetve a tekintélyelvűség problémájával. Megvizsgálja, hogy a huszadik század politikai eszméi és ideológiái (köztük a marxizmus, a szocializmus, a feminizmus, a posztmodern gondolkodás) milyen kihívásokat jelentettek a pszichoanalízis számára. Végül, felteszi azt a kérdést, hogy történelmi traumák és totalitárius diktatúrák tapasztalatai után van-e érvényes mondanivalója a pszichoanalízisnek a nem-traumatikus, demokratikus folyamatokról.
Different theoretical perspectives have been developed within the psychology framework for the analysis of the authoritarian phenomenon. They constituted some of the background lines of what would afterwards be considered as the field of Political psychology. The first approach takes place in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century’s, along with group psychology, where authoritarianism is studied as an emergent behavior of crowds. Subsequently, developments in authoritarian personality suggest a change in the analysis axes by studying the phenomenon in an intra-individual way. A third perspective arises with the cognitive approach, represented by the concept of dogmatism, which emphasized the study of beliefs and the way in which individuals defend them. Parallel to this approach, advances in the field of Experimental Psychology on obedience, account for the situation in the authoritarian phenomenon. Later on, the study of authoritarian personality is taken up once more with the concept of right-wing authoritarianism, which is defined as the individual differences in the covariation of three attitudinal clusters (authoritarian submission, authoritarian aggression and conventionalism). Finally, the most recent perspective for the study of the phenomenon suggests rethinking rightwing authoritarianism as an intergroup phenomenon, since its three attitudinal clusters account for a group phenomenon, plus a personality trait. The main objective of this paper is to critically review each of the six perspectives which have approached the study of authoritarianism as psycho-political phenomena, showing its peculiarities as well as its differences so as to finally consider which of those are still acceptable alternatives for the interpretation of this phenomenon.
The aim of this thesis is to present the Erich Fromm's psychoanalytic concept and determine the influence of his ideas in the contemporary society. Erich Pinchas Fromm was dealing with the psychology all his life. He was trying to use psychology as a tool of the development of the human mind and not only its scientific description. In his works, Fromm emphasizes a destructive and almost pathological influence of a modern company on human individuality, necessity of self-awareness and self-intrinsic value. The centre of his psychoanalytic analysis is a human being. Fromm tries, through detailed analysis, to show the negative side of the current civilization and also attempts to outline new opportunities of change. He criticizes the prevailing orientation on modus of ownership when a man blindly chases the power, wealth and popularity. The man pays a big toll for his egoistic avarice in the form of anxiety, fear and feeling of helplessness. Fromm in detail focuses on the aspects of human personality, such as love, freedom and human naturalness in his works. The essence of Fromm's psychoanalysis is the need to arouse people to change the current state of society, which Fromm considers essentially tragic. All the Erich Fromm's work is focused on a resurgence of human society and creation of ideal of a new man. Fromm was persuaded that the revival of society is possible and necessary. The key of this revival is primarily the change of individual mind. Fromm sees hope particularly in the self-reflection of the individual, who is able to free himself from illusions of his being and in the development unrepeatable uniqueness of real human being. The main contribution of Fromm's humanistic social psychology is to help a >sick< human being to restore inner moral values, which leads to an active and meaningful life.
Neurosciences have experienced tremendous development in the last decades. Research on genetics, structural and functional neuroimaging advance at a frantic pace. At the same time, psychoanalysis as a whole has been in decline, reflected in a reduced influence on culture, academia and mental health. However, there are some optimistic signals pointing to a slow but steady recovery. Three factors among others have contributed to this changing situation: interest in personality disorders, attachment theory and links to neuroscience. The approach to neuroscience has been especially contested among us, and some colleagues distrust these advances and take refuge in more familiar approaches to clinical work and research. There are also colleagues who maintain a naive view of neuroscience, expecting confirmations it can never provide. Some interesting ideas in psychoanalysis today come from projects involving neuroscience – or at least taking advantage of a research methodology more usually applied to natural sciences, and overcoming the methodological problems often found in traditional psychoanalytical papers. This rediscovery of nature and science in psychoanalysis should be considered not as a deviation from our core field, but rather as a return to the attitude of discovery and risk-taking our discipline once showed, and lost.
This paper aims to present the body as a possible psychic retreat in the face of annihilation anxiety. The sensations produced on the body seem to be a preferable place of psychic retreat in the patient's efforts to assuage her tormented intrapsychic reality. In such cases, unconscious phantasies are experienced mostly on the bodily level because of their intensity and primitive nature. Accordingly, self- and object representations tend to reside in the body and are accessible via the body. In this regard, bodily sensations offer a sense of continuity and cohesion, and allow for the further psychic elaboration of the unconscious conflicts.
Goethe wrote: >Mankind walks steadily forward, but the person remains the same<. Customs as a normative tradition ways of behavior are the important social community and have the power to unwritten laws. Are primarily transmitted orally or by imitation, once established are very slow to change. The article discusses the problem of looking at the reality of the two opposite poles.
I present and analyse here the phenomenon of a specific language that was spoken within the walls of a maximum security prison in the south-east of England between 2006 and 2007. In doing so, I look at the adolescent who becomes an offender, and how his language is thereby altered, here exploring language in groups and drawing on Freud and Bion, as well as the sociological contributions of Emery, Goffman and Messerschmidt, and the linguistic contribution of Teresa Labov. Examining the social structures that the language enforced, I examine my own role within and outside the prisoners' language, and explore what the prisoners learned from me and my language, and vice versa. I explore the nature of learning a language inside a prison, and examine the need for a homogeneity of language and the social adhesive in the language used. I look at my experience of one-to-one teaching versus group teaching: specifically, the differences in language used by the prisoners in these different scenarios, and try to determine to what extent language comes from outside influences and what to extent it forms and permutates inside. Using actual examples, I argue that despite the exuberance and inventiveness of the language, its usage follows Freud's >“Beyond the pleasure principle,< in that there is an attempt to reduce excitation. Finally, I regard prison language as a psychic retreat, drawing on the work of Steiner, Meltzer, Emanuel, and Leader (among others); and I ask questions not only about the prisoners, but also about the function of learning inside a prison itself, while regarding the language used as a depressive defence. No identifying reference to any single prisoner, or any specific crime, has been included in these pages. The people and the place that are alluded to throughout have been rendered anonymous.
Prefacio
(2013)
This bachelor thesis deals with conception of various human aspects according to Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse. These aspects are freedom, society and human. In introduction is shortly introduced the Frankfurt school, both authors were its members and this school form them. There is mentioned freedom and her economic, religious and anthropological development in culture. Below is here shown directly evolution of human. Fromm and Marcuse go from Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx. In one chapter Fromm shows us an evolution of human character and Marcuse analyses evolution of Ego, which has to fight with Id and Superego. Chapter about society more deal with capitalism and there authors go from aforementioned Karl Marx. Fromm presents his conception of mood to have and mood to be. Marcuse shows us a technical progress in industrial society. In conclusion will be compared theory of both philosophers and it will be examined their usability at the present time.
The main topic of this thesis is to compare the concept of freedom of three major thinkers of the twentieth century – Sigmund Freud, Erich Fromm and Zygmunt Bauman. The work consists in an attempt to find differences in approach of mentioned thinkers and in approach in individual fields to which they are classified i.e. psychology, sociology, and philosophy. The work is gradually focused on several aspects of freedom, while the majority of interpretation focuses on the modern form of freedom and finds its credibility for the modern man. The thesis also highlights the main features of freedom and its current ambivalent character. Freedom is interpreted here as a phenomenon which is an essential part of society. The modern age is characterized by a completely different freedom from the previous period and as part of a new society must be explained from a different perspective. Freedom in Freud relates to its interpretation from the perspective of human inborn instincts and biologically conditioned man who is forced to live in a civilized society that restrains him. Freud considers culture to be despotic on one side, full of cultural norms and regulations, which do not allow people to act based on their will. On the other hand he is aware that without certain limits total anarchy would prevail in the world. Fromm to certain extent distances himself from Freud's theory of instinct-driven man, whose naturalness makes him to meet the needs associated with libido saturation, and embeds freedom in the broader social standards and historical coherence. Fromm proceeds from the time since the man was not a single individual to a modern industrial society in which individualism is the main theme and freedom seems to be an ambiguous phenomenon. With the rise of capitalism the man gained freedom to decide but on the other hand he began to feel helpless and alone. According to Fromm man is determined by culture and social motivation drives him. Freedom is possible in a society where every individual and his growth and happiness is primary objective and purpose.
Fromm´s theory is followed by contemporary sociologist Zygmunt Bauman who understands freedom as ambivalently as his predecessor. In a capitalist society almost everyone of us is free, we have a choice of many options, which brings Fromm´s theory is followed by contemporary sociologist Zygmunt Bauman who understands freedom as ambivalently as his predecessor. In a capitalist society almost everyone of us is free, we have a choice of many options, which brings discomfort associated with the act of decision-making. In this sense he has in mind a society that has been in the last few decades radically transformed. When he talks about consumer freedom he thinks of present form of capitalism that was transformed from production stage to consumption stage. So consumer freedom, which depends on market, dominates today´s entire society.
The conception of love in the Erich Fromm´s research tries to explain love from the point of view of his personality and through his work called The Art of Loving. The subject of this bachelor thesis is the Fromm´ s conception of the love compared to psychological and sociobiological explanations. Erich Fromm (1900-1980) received PhD in psychology from the University of Heidelberg in 1922. He worked with the Marx´s social concepts which he linked up with the psychological findings taken from Freud. The acquired knowledge was then applied to Fromm´s research of love. According to Fromm, love has many different images from the mother love, brother love, erotic love, self-love to the love to God. In the following chapters, the same analogical explanations of love are explained but from the sociobiological and psychological point of views. The sociobiology is science that supposes that the man was born to the world because his selfish genes wanted to. The only task the man has in his being is to pass on his genes to the next generation. Thus the categories of love are presented from this point of view. It is totally understandable that many people refuse the idea of just passing on the genes to the next generation as the only goal of their beings. The conception of love from the sociobiological point of view differs a lot from the Fromm´s understanding of love. However, the psychological views are shades into the Fromm´s views as it is influenced by his psychological education. Psychological conception of love describes the love according to the today´s psychologist views. There are three main views of love described in the bachelor thesis. It is not possible to decide if one is better than the other one. Psychology describes love as an emotional relationship which is characterized by the wide emotionality. On the contrary the sociobiology is science that lacks the emotions and its views is influenced by the evolution and biology. Although the impact of psychology is significant in Fromm´s works the sociology can also be identified. Each of the conceptions of love – Fromm´s, sociobiological or psychological prefers its own approach.
This paper discusses two 19-century French-speaking authors, Pierre Janet and Auguste Forel, who both employed hypnosis and in various ways were influential on psychoanalysis. Marcelle, a long case history by Janet, is presented. Freud’s long review of Forel’s book on hypnotism is then discussed, as well as a short review by Erich Fromm of Forel’s autobiography. A case history by Forel is also presented. The connections between these two authors and modern developments are discussed.
On psychic reality and neutrality: Empathy and the work of construction in countertransference
(2013)
The clinical challenges faced in encountering patients who do not fit the standard treatment of Oedipus conflicts clearly show the limitations of the interpretative method, thus making indispensable the study of clinical concepts and techniques as a way to broaden the psychoanalytic horizons. In order to analyse the different psychopathological problems resistant to traditional clinical approaches, it is necessary to reorganise the technique on the basis of a better understanding of the ways in which subjectivity is rooted in early psychic constitution. In this way, empathy becomes important as a clinical tool. The use of empathy must be understood as a decisive factor in handling clinical cases and situations in which the treatment encounters obstacles that restrict the power of the analyst's verbal interventions.In this case, can we say that the use of empathy interferes directly with and changes the position of the concept of psychic reality? Moreover, as we use empathy, can we also say that the concept of neutrality is transformed, without being abandoned? The intention of this paper is to discuss these questions using clinical material taken from the analysis of borderline clinical cases and situations.
Filozofi si čoraz intenzívnejšie kladú otázku: V akom svete žijeme? Ktorý z nich je nám vlastný a ktorý cudzí? Čo spôsobuje odcudzenie a ako ho možno prekonať? Kult rozumu, ktorý sa zmenil na kult vedy a techniky, v ktorom sa človek namiesto autentického, neopakovateľného, slobodného prejavu stal neosobnou, funkčnou zložkou konformného správania dnešnej civilizácie, spôsobil, že intenzívnejšie prežívame pocity ohrozenia a odcudzenia. Preto sa tento problém stal premetom záujmu mnohých filozofov od Schopenhauera a Nietzscheho, ať po predstaviteľov postmoderny. Každý z nich poukazuje na povahu odcudzenia a možnosti jeho prekonania.
Particularmente devido às inovações técnicas, estamos testemunhando uma realidade sem limites crescente que se reflete cada vez mais em um esforço interno para nos livrarmos das limitações e fronteiras de nossa própria personalidade, reconstruindo-a novamente. Essa busca des-limitação, dissolução e indefinição dos imites é vista como um traço de caráter central do caráter social Ego-orientado. Tal fabricação de uma personalidade ilimitada sem dúvida resulta em um enfraquecimento de tais habilidades psíquicas como experimentar a si mesmo como uma entidade consistente e ambígua, estar emocionalmente ligado a si mesmo e aos outros, sentir seus próprios esforços, afetos e emoções, e ser guiado por alguém normas e valores internalizados. Por fim, discute-se o impacto dessa formação de caráter no que diz respeito às questões clínicas e terapêuticas.
Why is it that imprisonment has undergone an explosive growth in the USA and Britain over the last three decades against the background of falling crime rates in both countries? And why has this development met with a significant and escalating degree of support among the public? To the extent that governing elites on either side of the Atlantic have been eliciting public support for their authority by inducing concerns about issues of crime and punishment, what explains the selection of crime as a means to this effect, and in what precise ways do crime and punishment fulfil their hidden political function? Moreover, how do Americans and Britons legitimate their consent to objectively irrational policies and the elites responsible for their formulation? In seeking to advance the study of these questions, the present article rediscovers the method and key findings of Erich Fromm’s ‘materialistic psychoanalysis’, bringing them to bear upon insights produced by political economies of contemporary punishment and related scholarship. Particular attention is paid to the hitherto understudied themes of the political production of middle-class support for punitive penal policies under conditions of neoliberal capitalism, and the crucial role played in this process by the privileged position accorded to violent street crime in the public domain.