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Resulting from the prevalence of hedonistic egoism within the youth culture and the media targeted to this demographic, this essay offers a brief discussion of hedonistic egoism absent in much of contemporary ethics. Analyzing Fred Feldman’s pure hedonism as discussed in >Pleasure and the Good Life: Concerning the Nature, Varieties, and Plausibility of Hedonism<, hedonistic egoism is defined as an extension of Feldmanian pure hedonism. Discussing the use of hedonistic egoism in modern society by certain societal groups, especially adolescents and young adults, as a means to seek freedom from certain societal authorities such as the law, or at least portions of it, the differences between negative and positive freedom are explored using Erich Fromm’s >Escape from Freedom<. It is then argued that when hedonistic egoism is used by individuals to seek freedom, whether it be negative or positive, certain paradoxes arise. Firstly, negative freedom, if existent, will exist merely psychology while, secondly, so far that pleasure and pain act as new authorities and egoism is present, positive freedom becomes an impossibility.
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.
Sullivan Integrated
(2013)
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.
Ferenczi is regarded as the initiator of the relational model in psychoanalysis. In Britain his influence on Bowlby was largely indirect. In the United States he exercized an explicit influence on the interpersonal school through Clara Thompson. Fromm was already an admirer and supporter of Ferenczi. In comparing Fromm and Bowlby their convergence on the evolutionary paradigm is stressed. These two authors also converge on two important Ferenczian themes: the primary nature of the mother-child relationship and the importance of real-life traumatic events. The quality of attachment may contribute to the social character.
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.
The history of attitudes toward Freud's adoption of free-associative discourse, as well as toward the significance of the clinical significance of the free-associative method, is critically reviewed. It is argued that, if one takes the re-inviting of repressed contents back into self-consciousness to be the defining process of psychoanalysis as a discipline (distinguishing it even from those psychotherapies that are based on psychoanalytic models of the mind), then free-associating is indeed the sine qua non of the psychoanalysis process. It is further suggested that whereas Freud's notion of libidinality radically subverts Cartesian dualism, our thinking about the significance of free-associative discourse has too frequently lapsed into the mistaken assumption that free-associating should only be about what “comes to mind.” In this context, a way of free-associating with the “bodymind” is described as an addendum to customary psychoanalytic practices. This augmented method remains faithful to Freud's practice of allowing the voice of sensuality to “join the conversation,” at the same time that its clinical implementation incorporates some of the wisdom concerning “breathwork” that comes from the yogic procedures for cultivating awareness.
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.
This paper reveals the basic ideas of Erich Fromm’s analytical social psychology and shows links among work, character and education. Social changes may be better understood in the background of work evolution. Today the concept of waged work has been extended to unpaid activities. At the same time, the working life has been changed from a stable model to a flexible one. The work, its standards and social distribution, are also different now. Erich Fromm’s concept of "social character” clarifies the changes and explains the consequences of the social changes. The relations to work are also different. During these changes – unemployment included – concepts of the unconditional basic income were stud-ied. These concepts explain why it is possible for people without waged work to participate in community life and consumption, without being excluded. The author presents the basic social changes that affected many different subpopulation and age groups.
The aim of this short contribution is to present a summary of the decision problem within the profession of the pedagogue, and the fundamental role of the abduction (>απαγωγή<, retroduction) process in its proper context, in professional practice of the pedagogue, as in all professional practice involving the social and professional pedagogy. Pedagogy is a field for reflection, application and commitment or engagement to education. Moreover, pedagogy is establishing itself as a profession, the profession of the pedagogist (not of the educator, who is a different figure), in the socio-health, intellectual, cultural and aid profession field, even in spite of heavy delays and failures of the Italian laws and the resistance of professional groups related but already recognized both by law and by society. The so-called >pedagogical interlocution< is a paradigmatic form of the professional pedagogical practice. Decision in professional pedagogy, properly speaking, must be reached by the interlocutor(s), who must debate and develop it, with the aid of the professional pedagogue. Abduction is not a valid syllogism: it concerns a possible example of a general case or of a rule, who's the actual pertinence to this general case or this rule is mediated by the professional or expert assumptions. The professional approach of the pedagogue, from methodological point of view, is casuistic (case based) and situational as a form of aid given to the person, alternative and other than to the statistical-operational methodology that addresses rather to populations composed of individuals. Cases of general interest in professional pedagogy can be labeled as >casuistries< or >case study< categories. A good collection of casuistries-case study categories is provided by Erich Fromm, concerning the problems of family education; and by Viktor E. Frankl in his search for sense, Lebenssinn or λόγος. A further range of examples of categories based on case studies which can be dealt with a pedagogical professional methodology are the life and studies orientation problems. A fourth class of examples, applicable differently but methodologically similar, offers to us the autogenic training, particularly the choice of the propositional formula, called and eventually repeated both in the opening and in the closure, which must be adapted to the particular case of each single person; and this can be considered a specific pedagogical competence as the gradual training to the technique proposed by Johannes Heinrich Schultz reveals to be. Professional pedagogy, by this way, can make an important and an authentic and specific contribution to general discussion about decision in the social, human and cultural sciences (or Human-, Sozial-, Geisteswissenschaften).
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.
A importância da teoria humanista existencial psicanalítica e a linguagem corporal dos sonhos
(2013)
Music has the uncanny potential to transport its listeners to normally inaccessible realms of the psyche. Grounded in an object relations perspective informed by the burgeoning neo-monistic philosophical discipline of somaesthetics, it is suggested that the synthesis of conscious (necessarily explicit), unconscious (potentially explicit), and nonconscious (necessarily implicit) elements comprises a more utilitarian concept of the psychic essence of an individual: the >foundational self.< This foundational self, or the >spiritual self,< represents the irreducible and ultimately unformulatable core of human experience that results from the dialectical fusion of true-self object relations with concomitant developmentally primitive psychosomatic self states. It is argued that certain types of so-called >sacred music< – music whose form aligns with implicit affective registries that are filtered through intrapsychic constellations of true self object relations – act as perhaps the most potent catalyst in facilitating experiences of spirituality. The phonological qualities of sacred music share the same spectrum of transitional space in which the foundational self enjoys its fullest expression. Sacred music possesses the ability to dissolve explicit representational boundaries in service of achieving symbolic interpersonal fusion with the foundational self, in so doing facilitating a blissfully ego-boundless sensation of unio mystica.
Le nuove dipendenze
(2013)
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.
l objetivo de este artículo es realizar una contribución tanto sustantiva como epistemológica al estudio de la punitividad estatal y pública. Epistemológicamente, se desarrolla un argumento a favor de la utilización del psicoanálisis y especialmente la vertiente >materialista< de Fromm. Sustantivamente y por medio de convocar el psicoanálisis frommiano a dialogar con las visiones de las economías políticas del castigo contemporáneo, el objetivo es trazar las formas en las que la penalidad contribuye a un proyecto más amplio de dominación estatal sobre el público en los Estados Unidos y Gran Bretaña bajo las condiciones del capitalismo neoliberal. Se le presta particular atención en este sentido a los temas poco estudiados hasta aquí de la producción política del apoyo de las clases medias a las políticas punitivas y el rol crucial que ha jugado en este proceso la posición privilegiada otorgada al delito violento de la calle en el dominio público. El artículo argumenta que la penalidad neoliberal y sus efectos políticos requieren necesariamente lo que ha sido típicamente teorizado como los lenguajes y operaciones moralmente neutrales y desapasionadas del gerencialismo. Concluye reclamando un quiebre con respecto a los dos enfoques dominantes acerca de la responsabilidad de las elites por la punitividad pública: >punitividad populista< y >populismo penal<. A partir del trabajo de Fromm sobre el carácter social de las clases dominantes, se plantea que la auto legitimación y sus bases narcisistas son claves para comprender las acciones e inacciones de las elites.
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.
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.
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.
Die Kunst der Freundschaft
(2013)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Igor A. Caruso (1914–1981), one of the founders of the IFPS and the early Vienna Circle of Depth Psychology, began to discuss questions of the interplay between biological, social, and evolutional realities and intrapsychic development in the early 1950s. Caruso understood that Man's specific human ability to transcend his overdetermined biological constitution into a development of conciousness, care, and self-awareness is basic for his need for and lifelong activity related to intersubjective relationships. Sexual and survival drive as a biological basis contain their own transformation as cultural potency within the subject–object relationship. Each act of relationship – to things and living objects – creates a new reality that is a meaningful symbol for both parts of the relationship in their single reality. This new – third – reality gains full effectiveness for both actors as “symbolic realism” and initiates the ongoing development. On this understanding, psychic development is a process of changing interactive creation and effectiveness, following the biological drive dynamic as well as its inherent future transformations by attachment. Symbolisation is therefore the main intrapsychic and intersubjective activity of the development of object- and self-awareness. Caruso emphasises the meaning of symbol and symbolisation as an act of relationship to and within the world, and understood psychoanalytic theories as a changing symbolisation of relationship.
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.
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.
Einführung in die Tagung
(2013)
Erich Fromm was not only one of the founders of IFPS in the 1960s, but also one of the forerunners of the intersubjective tradition in psychoanalysis. Trained at the Berlin Institute, he started in the 1930s, after emigrating to the USA, to reformulate psychoanalytic theory by focusing on man’s need to be related to reality, to others, and to him- or herself. Similarly to Sullivan, Fromm looked at man primarily as a social being. But in contrast to Sullivan, Fromm stressed much more man’s being molded by societal requirements and by an intersubjectivity that is determined by strivings originating in the structure of his social character. Because of Fromm’s ‘‘societal’’ orientation, his approach to psychoanalysis is still of relevance to understanding how the intersubjective and intrapsychic are interwoven in each individual. Beyond that, his approach enables insights into what is going on psychically in society and how these changes can influence the individual’s welfare or suffering.
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.
Laudatio auf Georg Schramm
(2013)
The theory of social character developed by Erich Fromm asserts that the significance of experience is intimately linked to the material conditions under which persons, located in a specific economic system, live. The shared character traits thus correspond to the social role that these persons play. In the case of women, existing literature does not focus on their function as reproducers of the work force within the family, although this is a generalized function and additional to out-of-home work. This function has a transcendent importance to the development and emotional health of children, as has been established in longitudinal research of attachment theory.
This study explores Mexican mothers’ shared character traits, a systematized appraisal of their attitudes towards their lives and their children, their states of mind, and the quality of care they provide as well as their relationship to attachment patterns of their infants; some come from urban Middle, Middle-upper and Upper-class families and others from Poor in-digenous peasant families.
The fundamental focus is on the woman’s participation inside the family, although it does not exclude the possibility that some of these mothers handle not only the care giving and housework but also work outside of the home (the "double shift”). It concludes that the daily material conditions of existence are closely related to shared character traits and that these are in turn related to patterns of attachment in their infants, their sensitivity in the treatment of their babies, and the results of their Adult Attachment Interviews. Women have been the sup-port and pillar of subsistence for urban populations as well as the most poor and disadvan-taged communities. This role played by women is as widespread as undocumented in litera-ture.
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.
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.
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.
Begrüßung
(2013)
Freud's attitude toward philosophers and philosophy in published works was consistently hostile. This paper aims to show that Freud's persistently hostile attitude toward philosophers and philosophy was the result of ambivalence. On the one hand, it is explicable by his reaction to the resistance on the part of philosophers toward his innovative notion of “unconscious” and by his embrace of Comtean progressivism. On the other hand, it is explicable by his proclivities toward speculative thought, without the net of empirical data, and by his often unacknowledged borrowings from philosophers, old and new.
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.
Homecoming
(2013)
Philosophical and literary perspectives are combined with psychoanalytic ones in an attempt to provide a comprehensive conceptualization of the theme of homecoming. The concepts of home and homecoming are presented as symbolic representations of fundamental psychical functions, and their vicissitudes as subjective manifestations of basic psychic organizations. The hypothesis is put forward that the ability, or lack thereof, to work through the process of mourning of a lost object colors the evolution and outcome of any reckoning with such a notion and what it stands for. Literary sources are used to supplement and explicate psychoanalytic understandings regarding how the concept of homecoming is being made use of, within unconscious dynamics observed in a number of analytic cases.
This paper addresses the notion of irrationality and madness, as they are understood within the psychoanalytic framework. By highlighting their similarities and differences, as well as by emphasizing the crucial defensive position that manifest psychosis holds in the midst of all this, an attempt is being made to delineate the links between the conjectured earliest interaction that the infant has with its environment and the burgeoning conscious rational mind. Winnicott's conceptualizations around fear of breakdown, disintegration, the environment-mother, and therapeutic regression are utilized to form a bridge between the theoretical understanding of madness and the clinical applications of this understanding, as illustrated by a clinical vignette.
Zur Einführung
(2013)
Ojciec jest pierwszym i jednym z najważniejszych mężczyzn w życiu córki. Stanowi dla niej wzór mężczyzny. Wzór ten pomaga córce w kształtowaniu wizerunku męskiego w rodzinie i poza nią (Sosnowski, 2009, s. 211). E. Fromm (2006) podkreśla, że miłość ojcowska jest wymagająca. Wymagania stawiane dziecku dotyczą odpowiedzialności, posłuszeństwa, dyscypliny, niezależności, zdolności do kierowania własnym życiem (tamże, s. 51-54). Warto poddać analizie, na ile wymagania ojca dotyczą procesu realizacji przez dziecko zadań rozwojowych, w tym - wyboru współmałżonka. Według R. Huvighursta zadanie rozwojowe pojawia się w pewnym okresie życia jednostki (dzieciństwie, adolescencji, dorosłości) i wynika z jej potrzeb (somatycznych i psychicznych) oraz wymogów społeczeństwa (Tyszkowa, 1993, s. 952). W ramach teorii Huvighursta podkreśla się, że wybór współmałżonka jest również zadaniem rozwojowym, dlatego jego niewypełnienie u większości osób skutkuje brakiem poczucia szczęścia i niespełnieniem (tamże, s. 952) (Fragment tekstu).
The following >note from the field< is based off of first-hand observations and experiences had while living and working as an affiliated professor at a Chinese university. Noting the well-known political restrictions existing in China, the piece argues that against dominant Western narratives depicting a lack of freedom within China, there ostensibly appear spaces offering levels of emotional and interactional freedoms greater than what one can experience in the West. This argument is framed within the thought of Western intellectuals such as David Riesman, Erich Fromm, C. Wright Mills and Stjepan Mestrovic, and is advanced by considering the vast historical and cultural changes in recent Chinese history that have created an anomic condition in regards to newly emerging spaces made possible by vast wealth acquisition in the last several decades.
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.
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.
Converging Self - Other Awareness: Erich Fromm and Paulo Freire on Transcending the Fear of Freedom
(2013)
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.
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.