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On the Origins of Aggression
(1983)
Who Is Man?
(1983)
This dissertation investigates the relationship between the utopian idea of a normative totality and the genesis of modern totalitarianism in the exile novels Pardon wird nicht gegeben. Amazonas-trilogy, and November 1918 by Alfred Doblin (written between 1934 and 1937). – Chapter 1 analyses first the resurgence of narrative authority in the novel Pardon wird nicht gegeben as a function of Doblin's Marxist insight into economic determinism and as his literary contribution to the popular front of German emigres in the Paris of the 1930's. The novel describes the social rise and downfall of a proletarian whose sadomasochistic predisposition resembles the authoritarian character analysed by Erich FROMM in his psychoanalytic interpretation of Nationalsocialism. The protagonist's desire for social integration results in the destruction of his individuality through politically totalitarian groups. – Chapter 2 analyses the development of the concept of normative totality in Doblin's theory of the novel. – Chapter 3 shows how in Doblin's Amazonas-trilogy several historical attempts to realize a peaceful co-existence between European conquerors and their >Other< results in the brutal repression of the Native Indians. The desire of modern, rational, and technological man for a transcendental >home< is unmasked as the source also for the false totalitarian promises of salvation in our century. Doblin interprets Nationalsocialism as the repetition of earlier ecstasies of self-destruction, which in their turn were desperate responses to the loss of a holistic medieval order. – Chapter 4 follows the traces of Doblin's conversion to Catholicism in the narrative structure and content of November 1918. It elucidated the dialectics of totality totalitarianism by showing how Doblin's demand for a mystically motivated retreat from history results in the involuntary affirmation of those power structures whose inhuman face Doblins portrays in more than thousand pages. – The dissertation is framed by an introduction and a conclusion both of which deal with the problem of the relevance of his exile novels for our own time.
Piaget and Psychoanalysis
(1983)
Family dynamics in psychotic and severe psychosomatic disorders: A comparison. Typescript, 29 pp.
(1983)
Psychiatry in America
(1983)
Tears of Joy
(1983)
A Severe Case of Penis Envy: The Convergence of Cultural and Individual Intra-Psychic Factors
(1983)
More's Autonomy
(1983)
Editorial
(1983)
Recent discussions of the dominant Western character-type have focused on the decline of patriarchal conscience. The author compares Erich FROMM and Paul Tillich on these themes: characteristics of the bourgeois Protestant patriarchal conscience; the significance of its decline; and prescribed paths beyond it. Both regard the bourgeois Protestant type as unstable, needing either a regressive or a progressive solution to isolation. FROMM's progressive solution is humanistic conscience, returning to matriarchy on a higher level. Tillich sees FROMM's >human nature< as abstract; he seeks instead a connection between tradition and criticism, showing that patriarchy becomes self-critical in patriarchal religion. Like FROMM he restores matriarchy in his religion of grace.
On Supervised Analysis
(1983)
In this paper delivered at the 1982 meeting of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis in Toronto, the author discusses the relevance of E. FROMM's (e.g., 1966, 1967) themes for psychoanalysis. His biblical themes are reflected in his negative theology and in his description of the role of prophets as identifying choices for humankind. FROMM's emphasis on the intrinsic nature of hope in the structure of life is also reviewed. Features that characterize FROMM's therapeutic mode include (1) the intense aliveness of the therapist to the patient; (2) the therapist's focus on sensitivity to authenticity; (3) an emphasis on responsibility; and (4) the therapist's promotion of the pro-life resources of the patient, including creativity and the capacity for joy and love. FROMM believed the conflict between the >being< and the >having< modes to be universal, with the being mode emphasizing inner activity, love, and respect. In therapy, FROMM was fully attuned to his patients and active in the therapeutic exchange. FROMM recognized, however, that the patient had to participate in the actual changing.