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Konsequent und freundlich: Maja Göpels Einladung zur geistigen und politischen Erneuerung. Laudatio
(2022)
The aim of this paper is to give the reader an overview of several theoretical, empirical, and clinical features of survivor guilt, and to integrate recent contributions of psychodynamic theory and, in particular, of control-mastery theory into the understanding of the concept alongside the latest findings in social psychology about it. After introducing the concept of survivor guilt and its origins in clinical observations on the consequences of having survived severe traumas (e.g., internment in concentration camps), we will discuss the findings in social psychology on the concept of survivor guilt in everyday social interactions, which is based on a conception that does not connect it strictly to severe traumas. We will then focus our attention on clinical observations and empirical research studies about survivor guilt, discussing the hypotheses developed by several control-mastery theorists about its role in psychopathology. Finally, we will illustrate some manifestations of survivor guilt with a brief clinical vignette.
The short story entitled >Mu'tamar Al-Hub< by Taufiq Al-Hakim is a short story that contains the theme of love. The short story is interesting because it contains different views on the understanding of love. This study examines the psychology of the character in the short story which focuses on the characteristics of each character's love. The method used in this study is a qualitative method with the psychoanalytic theory of Erich Fromm. In this study, researchers found two divisions of the psychology of love in the short story character >Mu'tamar Al-Hub<. That is, found four forms of essential elements of love and five forms of objects of love. First, the researcher found the psychology of journalist characters who showed an attitude of concern, and responsibility and included in the type of erotic love. Second, the psychology of the musician character shows responsibility and the type of love in the form of motherly love. Third, the psychology of the poet’s character shows the respect and love included in the category of brotherly love and erotic love. Fourth, the psychology of the female character shows that there are aspects of her knowledge and love character in the form of self-love.
Erich Fromm criticizes the common notion that >obedience is a virtue< and >disobedience is a vice.< To prove his point, he argues that obedience can be utilized by any unjust and inhumane authority for their evil ends. Not only that, but he also says that the history of Western civilization is replete with stories of the struggle for the affirmation of the human person as an individual entity through disobedience. Thus, Fromm argues that disobedience can be utilized for the liberation and evolution of the human person. Therefore, he affirms that disobedience can be considered a virtue.
Ungleichheit ist Unfreiheit - über Ueli Mäder. Lobrede zur Verleihung des Erich-Fromm-Preises
(2022)
In this article, I interpret Hezbollah’s birth and role in Lebanon’s sociopolitical life from a group and family psychoanalytic perspective. In particular, I examine whether Hezbollah, as one of Lebanon’s >children,< can be seen as the >designated patient< and >symptom< of its large family, nation-state >incestual< dynamics and complicated separation and individuation process. As a designated patient, Hezbollah performs the double-sided function of gluing its fragmented nation-state together while carrying the weight of being its breaking force. In this logic, Hezbollah’s paradoxical role in the Lebanese nation-state family would be similar to that of a >scapegoat/Messiah,< who carries both the family’s incestual dynamics and internal tensions and its hope for a solid and cohesive nation-state identity. To build a cohesive nation-state identity, Hezbollah’s ideology acts as a prosthesis for Lebanon’s narcissistic fragility, which replenishes the narcissistic hemorrhage of its perforated bodily and psychic envelopes. I also reflect on whether a national mediation process informed by a group psychoanalytic approach could help Lebanon constitute a more functional ego-nation-state and thus renounce the need for a designated patient. Hezbollah would be better capable of giving up its pathological ideological position.
O presente artigo tem por objeto o tratamento dado por Erich Fromm e Max Horkheimer ao fenômeno da integração social do proletariado. Além dos textos de ambos os autores, o artigo recorre às pesquisas empíricas conduzidas no início da década de 1930, no âmbito do Instituto de Pesquisa Social de Frankfurt. Mais especificamente, é analisada a pesquisa sobre a >estrutura de caráter< de trabalhadores alemães, coordenada por Erich Fromm, sendo também considerados os principais resultados das pesquisas que tinham por objeto as mudanças na sexualidade e na estrutura de autoridade da família europeia da época. Mostra-se como Horkheimer recorreu a conceitos centrais do pensamento de Marx ao examinar os temas dessas pesquisas, resultando em uma perspectiva capaz de apreender as mudanças sociais em curso.
De acordo com o psicanalista alemão Erich Fromm (1900-1980), a espiritualidade deve ser entendida como uma atitude que visa à ruptura do egocentrismo, a um sair de si mesmo pautado pelo amor à vida, imbuído de sentido existencial e defensor da valorização da diversidade humana. No que tange à educação, Fromm pontua que o ato de ensinar é capaz de despertar as potencialidades do ser do educando, potencialidades essas que podem estar adormecidas em seu interior e que necessitam de alguns estímulos para que sejam despertadas. Neste viés, este artigo objetiva explicitar e analisar aspectos de interface entre a espiritualidade humanista e a educação a partir dos escritos de Erich Fromm, salientando que o processo educacional também deve abarcar a dimensão espiritual do indivíduo. Como recurso metodológico, propomos realizar uma análise teórico-bibliográfica das seguintes obras: Análise do homem, O coração do homem, Rever Freud e Ter ou ser?, todas de autoria de Erich Fromm, além de recorrer a trabalhos de comentadores do psicanalista humanista. Por fim, pretendemos evidenciar que o cultivo da sabedoria interior é um aspecto essencial para o aperfeiçoamento do ser do educando, à medida que promove o despertar da consciência biófila.
Artikel ini membahas perspektif Erich Fromm terkait membangun relasi cinta kepada oranglain sebagai citra diri >ngelmu<. Masalah yang muncul dalam artikel ini adalah: bagaimana tata laku >ngelmu< direpresentasikan dengan cinta kepada oranglain; serta bagaimana >ngelmu< terikat dengan perilaku membangun cinta kepada oranglain. Berdasarkan permasalahan tersebut, kemudian analisis kritisnya dibangun berdasarkan konsep cinta universal yang dikemukakan oleh Erich Fromm, yakni cinta aktif kepada sang Pencipta, alam ciptaan Nya, dan kepada sesamanya manusia. Metode yang dilakukan adalah berdasakan kajian terhadap pandangan Erich Fromm melalui pemahamannya tentang cinta universal. Artikel ini ingin menunjukkan keyakinan bahwa cinta universal yang merujuk pada kebutuhan untuk membangun cinta kepada oranglain menjadi bagian penting yang berdampak langsung pada >ngelmu< itu sendiri.
Frankfurt School Critical Theory and the Persistence of Authoritarian Populism in the United States
(2022)
In a comparative study of texts selected for their insights and occasional blind spots regarding fascist experiments of the past 100 years, Delogu examines fascism’s exploitation of fear (of change, loss, and death), disruption, and extreme inequality. The book offers an accessible and persuasive argument linking fascist authoritarianism, also called “right-wing populism,” to certain underlying conditions, such as a rise in us-versus-them thinking; distrust or simple apathy regarding democratic institutions, norms, and results; the vulnerabilities that result from extreme inequality (economic, social, racial); and addictions and codependency. Stressful events, such as a pandemic, an environmental disaster, or deep recession aggravate these harmful factors and make the fascist temptation, including the use of violence, almost irresistible. Delogu’s distinctive examination of texts that plumb the unconscious reveal linkages between actions and unavowable motives that purely historical and theoretical studies of fascism leave out.
The postmodern Querfront
(2022)
In this paper, I explore the nature of Paul Williams’ portrayal of the psychological growth of the narrator in The fifth principle and Scum. Growing up in an impoverished environment, both as a child and as an adolescent, the narrator experienced forms of neglect and abuse, which, together with the fantasies that he created, left him traumatized and close to being totally shattered. This is conveyed quite graphically through the use of various stylistic devices that include shifts in the method of narration in both books as well as the innovative use of language in Scum. Through extensive introspection as well as the help provided by others, the narrator suggests that he became sufficiently psychologically independent as well as capable of feeling connected to others in sustained ways.
In this paper, I explore the nature of Paul Williams’ portrayal of the psychological growth of the narrator in The fifth principle and Scum. Growing up in an impoverished environment, both as a child and as an adolescent, the narrator experienced forms of neglect and abuse, which, together with the fantasies that he created, left him traumatized and close to being totally shattered. This is conveyed quite graphically through the use of various stylistic devices that include shifts in the method of narration in both books as well as the innovative use of language in Scum. Through extensive introspection as well as the help provided by others, the narrator suggests that he became sufficiently psychologically independent as well as capable of feeling connected to others in sustained ways.
Erich Fromm hat vor etwa 90 Jahren eine Theorie undMethode der Analytischen Sozialpsychologie entwickelt und in der Folgezeit zur Anwendung gebracht. Die Analytische Sozialpsychologie ist es wert, in Erinnerung gerufen und auf ihre Relevanz für die Gegenwart befragt zu werden. Nach einer Einleitung werden in mehreren Abschnitten Fromms Theorie und Methode der Analytischen Sozialpsychologie detailliert nachgezeichnet. In einem weiteren Abschnitt werden Fromms humanbiologische Begründungen seiner Sozialpsychoanalyse skizziert. Deren Anwendung und Relevanz werden daran anschließend anhand der Phänotypik und Psychodynamik von Sozialcharakter-Orientierungen illustriert. Abschließend wird die Frage von Fromms Aktualität erneut aufgegriffen.
Der Soziologe und Psychoanalytiker Erich Fromm (1900–1980) entwickelte eine sozialpsychologische Methode, deren besondere Bedeutung darin liegt, dass sie auch unbewusste Motivationen und Antriebskräfte erfasst. Auf diese Weise lassen sich auch Strebungen und Verhaltensweisen sowie öffentliche Wertvorstellungen und Denkmuster ermitteln, die in einer humanistischen Perspektive als gesellschaftlich erzeugte psychische >Defekte< anzusehen sind. Mit seinem Konzept des Sozialcharakters lässt sich das, was in einer bestimmten Gesellschaft als >normal< und >vernünftig< empfunden wird, als mögliche >Pathologie der Normalität< hinterfragen. Wie aktuell sein Ansatz für eine Kritische Psychologie ist, wird am derzeit dominanten Sozialcharakter verdeutlicht.
Erich Fromm
(2022)
Foreword
(2022)
Shakespeare’s great play King Lear traces the downfall of a man who retired without sufficient insight into the impact of his decision. The author uses the play to frame questions about the course of her own retirement from psychoanalytic practice, on May 31, 2019. How might the decision to retire change the analyst’s sense of her own identity, and her patients’ perceptions of who she really is? What are some of the challenges of living in retirement, without the structure and purpose an analytic practice provides?
more universal psychological dynamics. If creative writing is interesting in itself, its failure can be fascinating. It is not unusual for some successful authors to find themselves unable to write. They suffer what is commonly known has >writer’s block,< a term coined by the psychoanalyst Edmund Bergler in his seminal study of blocked writers in the 1940s and 50s. This paper illustrates how the psychoanalytic study of >writer’s block< can go way beyond Bergler’s theorization. A writer who cannot write is also someone experiencing inner conflict, a self not living up to its expectations, a person that has lost the ability to play. Freudian, ego psychology, and object relations theory are some of the theoretical lenses used to look at >writer’s block,< and to show how this circumscribed phenomenon can shed light on more common struggles and muddles. A brief narration of the author’s experience of writer’s block is presented as an illustration of the parallels between psychoanalysis and writing, especially regarding the importance and use of reverie.
Vorwort
(2022)
The concept of this qualification work is to look at the question of human nature. This subject is narrowed down to an assumption that the human nature is not a solid or given substance but rather a question that needs to be answered. This interpretation is then discussed from a point of view of three thinkers. Those are: Erich Fromm, Mircea Eliade and Carl Gustav Jung, chronologically in this order. Except the original presumption ideas of these men differ quite noticeably, or at least between the two main ones, who are Jung and Fromm. These differences are then presented throughout this work. Ideas of Mircea Eliade are used as a thematic bridge to fill the gap between the two at first seemingly incompatible islands Carl Gustav Jung and Erich Fromm. At the end, an attempt to find certain similarities between the main characters is submitted.
>To hear with eyes< is a Shakespearean expression used by Masud Khan as the title of his article written in 1971. In this text, Khan recounts the clinical case of a young model who told him certain things, but in whose body, lying on the couch, he saw other things. Khan’s article is almost 50 years old, and since then the clinical management of bodily issues and subjective dissociations has become more pressing. We have more and more patients who do not use the couch and who seek our gaze. If Khan privileged the analyst’s gaze on the patient’s body, we can now broaden this horizon, adding layers to the relationship between body expressions, gestures, and rhythms in the clinical encounter. Non-neurotic patients are very sensitive to this; in the analyst’s interventions, what patients perceive is the gesture, rather than the content of what is said. In the same way, we must be attentive to the rhythm of each subject during the sessions of analysis. The more traumatic the subjective process is, the more important are the perception of and respect for the patient’s rhythm, as well as the possibility of being able to get in synch with their rhythm.
The article focuses on the forms of destructiveness based on Erich Fromm’s theory, especially the concept of playful and vengeful violence, necrophilia, narcissism and symbolic fixation with the mother. The representation of the necrophilic orientation in some resonant personalities, the types of benign, malignant and social narcissism are concepts taken from Erich Fromm and clarified in the theoretical course of the article. The author applies the concept of destructiveness through the prism of symbolic fixation towards the mother, based on the novel by the Norwegian writer Anne Holt >Death of the Demon<. The morbid aspects of the child′s development and the investigation of the crime are the key dimensions through which Anna Holt′s novel can be read and interpreted.
Recent scholarship has mapped the dynamic between humiliation and violence, including the role of trauma and self-esteem. While existing research has mostly focused on individuals, there is a strong case for applying this framework to the macrosocial level. Taking an interdisciplinary approach that combines psychoanalysis, cultural anthropology, and political sociology, this paper carries out a step-by-step application of Gilligan’s shame/violence theory to the case of Greece, focusing on the post-2009 era known as >the Crisis.< This paper outlines the root causes of the shame/violence dynamic in Greece, with reference to communitarian moral codes and honor crimes, as well as political divisions, unresolved trauma, and shame/violence spirals originating in the mid-twentieth century. It then examines the role of humiliation during the current economic crisis, as well as the surge of political aggression. The application of Gilligan’s theory provides us with a compelling interpretation of civic culture in contemporary Greece, throwing light on patterns of collective self-harming behavior (>suicide by cop>) – as both a possible result of subjective humiliation, and a means of seeking pity and attention. The paper also identifies the existence of accumulated shame, which could lead to outbreaks of political extremism.
How to educate yourself to cultivate a sense of affection in children is the topic of this paper. This is because many studies in the modern era have shown a decrease in affection for children. Bullying and violence against children are on the rise because of the actions of adults or parents. While this is troubling and worrying, it will also be a psychological burden for children now and in the future. As a result, concerns about how truly loved children feel, think, and act are on the rise in this paper. The philosophy of science approach is used to conduct research, which includes ontological, epistemological, and axiological investigations. What and why the love crisis in children is examined in ontological studies. Epistemological studies then discuss love in a philosophical perspective, reasons why children are neglected, and self- education to love children. Meanwhile, axiological investigation focuses on the benefits of training oneself to love children. This research study uses qualitative methods. Research findings show that compassion is an innate human trait that should be upheld by everyone. Unconditional love for anyone, especially children, is love that must >grow and develop<. By teaching yourself to truly love and compassion for children and not prioritize violence and disturbing children, compassion must be built through self-culture.
Editorial: On survival
(2022)
Este artigo aborda as repercussões individuais em torno da ascensão e da consolidação de ideologias e personalidades totalitárias, a partir de obras de Arendt (2012) e Fromm (1961; 1983). A análise reconhece as trajetórias e vinculações teóricas particulares de cada um dos autores e busca atravessamentos comuns às suas teorias. O rigor histórico de Arendt, somado à preocupação que Fromm nutre no que diz respeito às implicações psicológicas dos regimes, oferece rica leitura da realidade sociohistórica e seus efeitos sobre as subjetividades em contexto totalitário.
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan tentang kebutuhan eksistensi tokoh utama dalam cerpen Abu Ar-Rīh karya Hasan Ibrahim Nashr dengan menganalisis karya tersebut menggunakan sudut pandang psikologi kepribadian Erich Fromm. Metode dan pendekatan yang digunakan pada penelitian ini adalah deskripsi kualitatif dengan bentuk studi pustaka (library research). Hasil dan kesimpulan yang diperoleh dari penelitian ini yaitu, Abu Riih mampu mempertahankan eksistensi sebagai manusia jika kita tinjau dari dua hipotesa yang diajukan oleh Erich Fromm. Ia memiliki kebebasan dan otonom, ia mampu beraktifitas sesuai dengan apa yang ia yakininya.
Skripsi ini membahas tentang krisis neoliberalisme dan logika kekerasan etnis di Pantai Gading, 1993-2011. Berbagai bentuk tindak kekerasan terjadi selama periode tersebut seperti produksi dan diseminasi ideologi etnonasionalis, kekerasan interkomunal, kudeta militer, dan dua episode perang saudara. Dengan menggunakan pendekatan Psikoanalisis Fromm, skripsi ini berargumen bahwa dislokasi neoliberalisme telah melahirkan kepribadian otoriter di kalangan Masyarakat Pantai Gading dan kekerasan etnis merupakan manifestasi pembentukan kepribadian otoriter yang dibentuk melalui ideologi-ideologi etnonasionalis. Dislokasi neoliberal yang dirasakan oleh masyarakat Pantai Gading yang terus terindividuasi sejak kapitalisme diperkenalkan oleh kolonialisme Perancis disikapi dengan rasa ketidakberdayaan dan hasrat untuk membinasakan. Ideologi etnonasionalis kemudian hadir untuk mengafirmasi kedua perasaan tersebut dan memanifestasikannya menjadi tindak kekerasan.
The article is devoted to the analyses of theoretical models of historical development, evaluation of them and coming to the best one. Thus the authors generalize, summarize and mark out six of them: 1) Cyclical (the old one: Herodotus, Aristotle, etc.), 2) Eschatological (A. Augustine), 3) Progressive (Hegel, K. Marks), 4) Theory of historical-cultural types (N. Danilevsky, O. Spengler, etc.), 5) postmodernist (J. Lyotard, J. Derrida) and 6) >Axial age< (K. Jaspers). Through analyses, we can conclude that the only last one is completely free from any kind of determinism, anarchism and impersonalism and has universal and personal sense. At the end, it analyzes the latest ideas of socio-political development (F. Fukuyama. S. Huntington, etc.). The idea of an alternative post-industrial path of development and the need to build a personalistic society is also expressed (N. Berdyaev, E. Fromm and A. Panarin). Based on the concept of the >Axial Age< the authors suggest existential-personal understanding philosophy of history, which was supported by humanism of the Kyrgyz and Russian writer Chingiz Aitmatov (1928 – 2008) and >philosophy of existential event< Merab Mamardashvili (1930–1990), that depends on moral decision of each person, – only in this way can we obtain social progress.
This article raises the question why is it that, despite Jewish tradition devoting much thought to the status and treatment of animals and showing strict adherence to the notion of preventing their pain and suffering, ethical attitudes to animals are not dealt with systematically in the writings of Jewish philosophers and have not received sufficient attention in the context of moral monotheism. What has prevented the expansion of the golden rule: »Love your fellow as yourself: I am the LORD« (Lev 19,18) and »That which is hateful to you do not do to another« (BT Shabbat 31a:6; JT Nedarim 30b:1) to animals? Why is it that the moral responsibility for the fellow-man, the neighbor, or the other, has been understood as referring only to a human companion? Does the demand for absolute moral responsibility spoken from the face of the other, which Emmanuel Levinas emphasized in his ethics, not radiate from the face of the non-human other as well? Levinas’s ethics explicitly negates the principle of reciprocity and moral symmetry: The ›I‹ is committed to the other, regardless of the other’s attitude towards him. Does the affinity to the eternal Thou which Martin Buber also discovers in plants and animals not require a paradigmatic change in the attitude towards animals?
In 1939 Sigmund Freud published his latest book, Moses and Monotheism, which is his most unusual and problematic work. In Moses Freud offers four groundbreaking claims in regard to the biblical story: [a] Moses was an Egyptian [b] The origin of monotheism is not Judaism [c] Moses was murdered by the Jews [d] The murder sparked a constant sense of unconscious guilt, which eventually contributed to the rational and ethical development of Jewish monotheism. As is well known, Freud’s Moses received extremely negative reviews from Jewish thinkers. The social psychoanalyst, Erich Fromm, who wrote extensively on Freud as well as on Judaism and the biblical narrative, did not explicitly express his position on Freud’s latest work. This paper offers explanations for Fromm’s roaring silence on Freud’s Moses.
This paper focuses on how sometimes it is possible to encounter nodal concepts that seem to lead to a perceptible consistency of the intertwining of some >fil rouge< in the theories and sensibilities of psychoanalysts who are otherwise very different from each other. Ninety years after the last conferences held by Ferenczi in America, it emerges that Ferenczi remains a point of reference for numerous authors and continues to influence many of the theories proposed. In particular, the concept of agency, as theorized by Jonathan Slavin, would seem capable of organizing a series of observations in analytic practice within a coherent theoretical framework, while remaining unsaturated enough to allow further reflections and connections with the theories of other scholars, among which that of Edgar Levenson appears significant. Levenson and Slavin, in the wake of Ferenczi, highlight how the analyst must avoid both the risk of an aseptic neutrality and the risk of collusion with their own narcissistic desire at the expense of the desire of others, since the realization of these risks would hinder the patient from becoming an agent of themself.
This text aims at a multi-dimensional reflection on Erich Fromm’s conception of the human being. Starting from Marxist-Freudian sources of the philosopher’s thought, the authors show the fundamental ideas underlying his version of psychoanalysis. Next, Fromm’s view of the human being as a social being is discussed, referring to the concepts of unproductive and productive orientations. Another important dimension of Fromm’s thought that is discussed is the reflection on the nature and functions of the symbolic language of the unconscious, which reveals to the human being both the best and the worst aspects of his or her personality. One of the most famous concepts of the American philosopher is also discussed – the distinction between the being mode and the having mode. The authors draw attention to the value Fromm placed on a life oriented towards the being mode. Finally, they remind us, following Fromm that a human being turns towards himself in his or her dreams, going beyond all the schemes and concepts that bind his mind when he or she is awake. The understanding of oneself that comes from a deep reflection on the content and character of a dream can awaken in a person the recognition of previously unknown dimensions of his or her mind; from now on, he is not merely someone immersed in the reality of everyday life. Crossing the horizon of oneiric imagination, he or she becomes free, in the dream, and she experiences the freedom of being on waking.
In this essay, the author will explore the use of countertransference in the therapeutic process, with particular emphasis on Oedipal love. We begin with countertransference as conceptualized by interpersonal psychoanalytic theorists, who immediately pointed out the technical relevance of the therapist as a person, and the importance of the use of the therapist’s feelings, thoughts, life experiences, and states of mind in the therapeutic relationship. Just as dreams, slips of the tongue, peripheral thoughts, and physical gestures are useful in reading the patient’s unconscious experience, accepting, examining, and exploring countertransference become useful in reading the analyst’s unconscious experience. The author will then identify a more radical and contemporary conception of countertransference as representative of the analyst’s unconscious receptivity to the patient within the enactments in which transference and countertransference reciprocally affect each other. Finally, the author will concentrate on the Oedipal feelings experienced by the therapist and their importance in treatment. A clinical case will illustrate the clinical ramifications of these hypotheses.
Review Ahron Friedberg with Sandra Sherman. Psychotherapy and personal change: Two minds in a mirror
(2022)
Haben oder Sein: Leben statt Profit! Was mache ich aus dem, was die Gesellschaft aus mir macht?
(2022)
본 연구의 목적은 힘의 변형 관점에서 집단상담 이론을 재이론화하고, 이에 근거하여 청소년의 폭력성이 집단상담 과정을 통해 변형된 사례를 분석하는 것이다. 연구자는 본 연구를 통해 집단상담이 힘의 변형 자원이 있음을 논증하고, 힘의 변형 관점에서 권위주의가 뿌리 깊은 한국의 목회 영역에 유의미한 실천적 적용을 모색하고자 하였다. 힘은 관계의 맥락 안에서 권위적인지, 혹은 상호적인지 정의되어질 수 있다. 본 연구에서의 힘의 변형이란, 대인관계과정에서 권위적인 힘이 상호적인 힘으로 변형되는 것을 의미한다. 본 연구를진행하기 위해 연구자는 문헌연구와 사례연구를 병행하였다. 본 연구는 집단상담의 이론과 과정을 힘의 변형 관점에서 다시 구조화했다는 점에서 그 주요한 성과가 있다. 또한 집단상담의 힘의 변형 자원을 신학적으로 조명하여 오늘날 한국교회의 리더십 유형과 공동체의 관계성 유형을 모색하였다는 점에서도 의의가 있다.
в статье приводится попытка показать и доказать, что, несмотря на прошедшее время, Эрих Фромм говорит с нами о нашей социальной реальности на нашем языке. >Диагнозы< больной ткани постсовременного гражданского общества, а также оценки феноменов социальной и экзистенциальной реальности, поражают своей точностью и актуальностью. В статье анализируются работы Фромма, а также комментирующая литература современных западных авторов.