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Review Fromm, E.: Man for Himself. An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics (1947a, Portuguese)
(1963)
Review Fromm: May Man Prevail? An Inquiry into the Facts and Fictions of Foreign Policy (1961a)
(1963)
Review Fromm, E.: Leben zwischen Haben und Sein (1993b, German): >Warnung vor Selbstzerstörung<
(1994)
[…] Written by a well-known clinical psychologist this exposition and critique of psychoanalytic schools has achieved its aim of presenting a more objective view of their tenets and divergencies than could have been achieved by an active analyst. For purposes of discussion and comparison she has divided the schools into two major categories. The first is the >libido< group who accept the libido theory of classical Freudianism. The second, the >non-libido< analysts, include Adler, Homey, Fromm, and Sullivan, all of whom have built up theories in rejection of this Freudian concept. Jung and Rank, who do not fit this dichotomy, are discussed separately. In general, >Schools of Psychoanalytic Thought< is an important contribution to the systematic literature on psychoanalytic concepts and practices, and provides both professional and student psychologists with a much needed one-volume survey of contemporary psychoanalysis. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
[First page] Critical Theory as a philosophical orientation has provided a radical stimulus to a contemporary generation of thinkers by combining the Hegelian and Marxian dialectical methods with Marx's critique of ideology. This has given rise to a distinctively powerful lens of social analysis for the project of emancipation in the multifarious issues of power struggle, ideology, language, discourse, technology, instrumental reason, aesthetic industry, etc. in social, economic, political, and cultural spheres of contemporary society. The revolutionary insights of Hegel and Marx in Critical Theory however, do not imply a closed system of thought among its practitioners; in fact, at times, it has been discordant, however vibrant. In this collection of correspondence, for instance, Marcuse disagrees with Dunayevskaya on the latter's interpretation and application of Hegel's dialectics and absolute idea/mind, while Fromm accused Marcuse of callousness towards moral qualities in political figures similar to that of Lenin (xviii), and Marcuse likewise attacked Fromm on his Freudian revisionism and liberalism regarding interpretations on Freudian psychoanalysis versus Marxist social analysis.
References to the disagreements between the Frankfurt School's intellectual leaders Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno with Herbert Marcuse (xvii), on the one hand, and with Erich Fromm (xix), on the other hand, were also alluded to. Nonetheless, by and through persistent critical dialogue and exchange-truly a real practice of dialectics-the critical theorists in different perspectives of the Marxist-Humanist, Hegelian-Marxist, and Socialist Humanist standpoints, have preserved and has brought to greater heights. ...
Dr. E. Fromm, in a recent report to the Journal of the American Home Economics Association, discussed the two kinds of hatred which he claims exist. One is what he calls the >counterpoint of life<. It is rational hatred, aroused by an attack on life, freedom, country, some person or institution we love. Such hatred is necessary for winning a war against aggression. >People must love what they are defending, in order to hate their attackers effectively.< The other kind of hatred, which he calls >character-conditioned<, was made use of by the Nazis in recruiting their party. The bulk of their recruits came from the lower middle class, who had led a starved and frustrated life socially and economically, particularly since 1918, in Germany. This led to tremendous irrational hatred and destructiveness which could only be expressed in small doses before the Nazi party offered an outlet.
[…] Aside from its major thesis, this book has strong incidental values. It condenses, as ably and readably as few have achieved, the concepts and theories of Freud, Adler, Jung, Rank, Karen Horney, Erich Fromm and Harry Stack Sullivan. The result is a volume that students can use with profit, and in which busy psychologists can find a meaty and accurate account of the psychoanalytic moderns. The chapter on Sullivan is of great value, much of it taken from unpublished material presented only in his lectures. (APA PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
>The Forgotten Language< is an introduction to symbolism, and to the understanding of symbols in dreams, fairy tales, and myths. Fromm ably supports his thesis that symbolic language expresses inner experiences and feelings that cannot readily be formulated in conventional social communication. >Universal< symbolism >is shared by all men< and >does not have to be learned<. (APA PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)