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Artykuł ma wskazywać związki filozofii Ericha Fromma z myśleniem utopijnym. Podstawowym zadaniem będzie zatem rozstrzygniecie, czy mamy do czynienia z klasyczna utopia, czy jedynie z elementami myślenia utopistycznego. Przyjmując, ze filozofia niemieckiego myśliciela wpisuje się w tradycje utopistyczna, ale klasyczna utopia nie jest, podejmuje próbę wykazania związków systemu filozoficznego Ericha Fromma z psychoanaliza Freuda, filozofia Marksa, mesjanizmem żydowskim i chrześcijańskim, które cechuje myślenie utopistyczne.
Human being needs to be understood deeply by exploring fundamental characters. The fundamental characters have a set of dichotomized situation. Personally, in the process of thinking and behaving, people try to solve those dichotomized problems. The attempts can be seen in the form of character and orientation desired. These are ideology. The ideology determines attitudes and ideas undeliberately fight his human existence. The ideology correlates with conflict situations of human. This obligates free choices according to his fundamental attitudes. Erich Fromm solved the problem which is relevant to the ideology by making the concept of >to be<, in human potencies be confronted with concept of >to have< which signed by productive activity, autonomous, critical, and freedom.
본고는 근자에 이슈가 되고 있는 >한국 민주주의의 위기<에 대한 철학적 반성으로서 다음 네 가지 점을 중심으로 살펴보고자 한다. 첫째 본고는 >한국 민주주의 위기<의 근원을 다름 아닌 <개혁의 실패 내지는 지체>에서 찾고자 한다. 둘째로, 민주주의 위기론과 관련하여 제기되고 있는 >민주세력 무능론<을 비판적으로 검토한다. 여기서는 민주 세력의 중요한 실책으로 >시민적 동의획득의 실패<를 지적하고 그 의미를 탐색해 보겠다. 세 번째로 보수화의 군중심리에 나타나고 있는 >박정희 신드롬<의 위험에 대해서 그리고 참여민주주의의 당위적 과제가 갖는 의미에 대해서 살펴보겠다. 결론에서는 한국 민주주의의 위기를 극복하기 위한 진보 세력 일반의 과제로서 >대안적 사회모델의 정립<, >국민적 동의획득의 노력<, >참여와 연대 문화의 확산<을 지적하고 이러한 상황이 철학에 부과하는 과제는 무엇인지 살펴보겠다.
This article will briefly introduce the concept of authoritarian personality as its team of authors T. W. Adorno, E. Frenkel-Brunswik, D. J. Levinson and R. N. Sanford, presented it, describe the contemporary influence of the concept and focus on possible implications for the study of non-democratic regimes. The reader will also learn about findings of political psychology and reflections about the concept of authoritarianism, including the approaches of S. Freud, E. Fromm, A. Maslow and others. The following text is based on the theoretical conclusions of political psychology, which by applying its scholarly perspective can uncover some contexts of the study of non-democratic regimes.
In recent years, the undead have been on the rise in films. Zombies and vampires are taking center stage and raking in money in record amounts. Resident Evil moved on to its fourth installment, 28 Days Later morphed into 28 Weeks Later, and 30 Days of Night is scoring some serious box office attention. George Romero, the king of the undead film, released his latest Land of the Dead, fourth in the Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, and Day of the Dead series. There has even been an updated remake of Dawn of the Dead where the zombies transform from the shambling mounds of the past to the hyperdrive zombies of today. But what makes these films, so focused upon the living dead, so popular? Are we attracted to the undead because we, as Americans, are morphing into a society of necrophiles? Or are we already a society of necrophiles simply searching for an outlet? By examining the genre with an eye to Erich Fromm’s concept of necrophilia in a mechanized world, a new trend reveals itself. According to Fromm, as the world becomes more and more mechanized, humans become more and more disassociated from their selves, creating a move from biophilia to necrophilia. As we become inured to social ills and violence, it’s a small step from being distanced from life to being attracted to death. If the trend continues, the undead in films will be mere reflections of the undead in a mechanized world. Art imitates life. In the case of the undead in film, art imitates death. And who doesn’t love art?
Johan Jakob Bachofen (1815-1887) was a Swiss anthropologist and sociologist whose 1861 book, Mother Right: An Investigation of the Religious and Juridical Character of Matriarchy in the Ancient World is best known for his radical claims that matriarchy preceded patriarchy, and that matriarchy is the source of human society, religion, and morality. Scholars have acknowledged Bachofen’s influence on a long list of writers, including but not limited to: Lewis Henry Morgan, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Mann, Friederich Engels, Karl Marx, Erich Fromm, Joseph Campbelll, Emile Durkheim, Carl Gustav Jung, Thorstein Veblen, Ferdinand Tonnies, and Pitirim Sorokin. The focus of my thesis is to bring attention to Bachofen’s influence on the early sociologists (Engels, Durkheim, Tonnies, Sorokin), and more importantly, on the later sociologists and other social scientists whom these early sociologists in turn influenced, including: David Riesman, Talcott Parsons, and Jean Baudrillard.
Love is an Art [爱,是一门艺术]
(2008)
Classical Psychoanalysis and Politics. The article is concerned with psychoanalysis and its application to politics. First part focuses on social thinking of Sigmund Freud. Second part examines political insights of Carl Gustav Jung. Third part examines the social theory of Erich Fromm. Forth part calls attention to political opinions of Herbert Marcuse. The article highlights a traditional Freudian approach to society and politics.
The paper analyses the Freud’s dilemma in his theory of civilization, on this basis, finds the course of problem. In this process, we begin with the two basic concepts, namely civilization and instinct. In Freud’s theory, the civilization is existed as the performance of difference between people and animals. It not only include the knowledge and ability that formed in dealing with the relationship between human and nature, but also include the various rules and regulations between peoples. Instinct, as a core concept in his theoretical system, is inherited from the theory of biological evolution. He believes that the instinct urged the organism returning to the previous state, and eventually, he divided the instinct into instinct for life and death instinct, and believed it has fundamental confliction between the two instincts. When Freud’s perspective turns to the field of the social life, he also looks at modern civilization from the perspective of instinct, and believes that modern civilization oppresses the satisfaction of instinct and meets the demands of instinct at the same time. But, he does not completely abandon the idea of civilization or instinct, he thinks that civilization can oppress instinct appropriately. However, the oppression what degree is appropriate, Freud does not give a clear standard. So, in fact, the problem he encountered has not been fully resolved. Aiming at the difficulties encountered by Freud, other scholars such as Marcuse and Fromm have tried to solve this problem. But, their theories have their own shortcomings. Marcuse does not fully understand Freud’s problem, he is more concerned about Freud’s instinct for life. In fact, Freud is more attention about death instinct. As for Fromm, he integrates the spirit of Marxism and psychoanalysis, in the face of the difficulties encountered by Freud, he thinks that the problem can disappear with the development of society. So, he gives us only a hope, a utopian existence. So, we should explore the root cause of the dilemma encountered by Freud, and analyze whether the dilemma exist or not in actually.– When analyzing Freud’s theory of civilization, we finds that to imagine a non-oppressed civilization, the biggest obstacle we faced is the death instinct.– So, the question is weather the death instinct is necessary. Karen·Horney raises doubts in this regard. Through her own analysis, she thinks that it is not necessary to mention death instinct, for, there is no full evidence to certificate it, and it also contradict with the reality. However, the death instinct, after all, as a real theory is putted forward by Freud, and when the theory take the great dilemma to him, he still use it. So, it was necessary to explore the theoretical way what his death instinct produced. Freud is impacted by the theory of evolution deeply, and he introduces the concept of instinct as a biological field into the psychological field. In this course, he also introduce the logic of evolution into psychological field. So, the things what are established in biological field are similarly established in psychological field. When he discovers that the people have the tendency to repeat previous activities, he considers that it represents a kind of instinctive tendency also. On this basis, he puts forward the death instinct that is, return to the previous inorganic state. However, when he looks at human civilization, he is still from the view of biology, and considers that people and animals have no essential difference. This is a non-scientific idea .It has been recognized by many scholars that it has essential difference between people and animals. Therefore, the study of human civilization should be from the fundamental characters of human.– In the history of Western thoughts, it has been existed the concept of rational person religionary person and biological person. Cassirer puts forward the concept of symbolic person, on the basis of analyzing the limitation of these concepts, and it mainly emphasize the higher level ability of free creating what human has. This is consistent with the Marx’s incisive elucidation. So, >people are symbolic animals< seizes the people’s fundamental characters. From the concept of >human is symbolic animals<, human has the ability of creating and using the symbol. This is the universal dynamic creativity what human has. In the course of creating and using symbol, human has the ability of giving the value to symbols freely and dynamicly, so the symbol system is a free system also. Civilization is a development course of self-determination. It develops and heritages through the symbol media. Thus, the development of civilization is a free, dynamic process also. So the development of civilization not only does not oppress anything, but also is not hampered by other things. Thus, in Freud’s view, the course of the development of civilization does not oppress instinct. [Translation: www.cnki.net, 6/2023]
Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Bedeutung der Entfremdung und die Problematik der Identität in der modernen Industriegesellschaft. Es geht um die Entfremdung im Dasein des Menschen und den Verlust an der Beziehung zwischen >Ich< und >Welt<.
Erstens sind nach Auffassung in diesem Beitrag die moderne Gesellschaft und die Entfremdung, Begriff und Ursache der Entfremdung, Erkenntnis der Entfremdungsstruktur sowie Verdinglichung, Konfliktstruktur und Zerstörung des Subjekts unserer Zeit eingeprägt. Im Hinblick auf theoretische Forschungen diskutieren wir Hegel und Marx vom philosophischen Gesichtspunkt, Melvin Seeman vom soziologischen Gesichtspunkt, und Erich Fromm vom psychologischen Gesichtspunkt aus. Im Allgemeinen lässt sich sagen, dass die in die industriellen Strukturen eingebundenen Menschen an den Leistungsanforderungen zerbrechen können. Die Leistungssteigerung in sämtlichen Facetten betrifft nicht nur den Arbeiter und Manager, sie betrifft auch den Autor, weil Umsatzsteigerung in jedem Betrieb Pflicht ist. In einer von Nützlichkeit und Gleichgültigkeit beherrschten Gesellschaft steht der Mensch im Gegensatz zur Welt und zu sich selbst. Zweitens werden in Bezug auf >Die Verwandlung< Kafkas die Entfremdung des Menschen und der Verlust der Identität im literarischen Sinnbild angesprochen. Für den heutigen Menschen ist die Zerrissenheit seines Lebens und seiner Welt charakteristisch. >Die Verwandlung< stellt die Gestalt des heutigen Menschen bloß, der an dem großen Mechanismus der heutigen industriellen Gesellschaft jämmerlich zu Grunde geht. Es läge zunächst nahe, die Verwandlung vom Menschen ins Tier als Identitätsverlust aufzufassen. Denn die Verwandlung ins Tierhafte bedeutet zwar den Verlust der Sprache, die auf tierische Laute reduziert ist, einen Wechsel in der Nahrungsaufnahme und in einem räumlichen Sichfortbewegen, also eine Reduktion der vitalen Organisation auf eine rein tierische Stufe; aber das Bewußtsein des Verwandelten ist ein rein menschliches, und er ist überdies durchaus imstande, menschliche Vorgänge und Gespräche aus seiner Umgebung aufzunehmen. Gregor ist zwar in ein widerwärtigrs Tier verwandelt, aber er hört darum nicht auf, Gregor zu sein. Mit der >Verwandlung< bleibt Kafka in der Ausweglosigkeit des mytischen Kreises gefangen, wo Opfer und Selbstopfer ununterscheidbar werden. Kafka sah sein >Ich< im Unheil und meinte zu erkennen, dass einzig im Leiden des Todes ein Zustand des Heils erreicht werden könne. So war es sein Bestreben, dichtend den Tod herbeizuführen, um auf diese Weise sein Seelenheil zu erringen.
This study was to find out how the unity of will could be realized through sex in the Korean novels which were written in the special period of the 1920's through 1930's which were under Japanese colonial rule and modernization. Erich Fromm's philosophical speculation was a good criterion to clarify this kind of process. The right way to forward the truth of unity was the very matured love that Erich Fromm talked about. Matured love is to feel the unity in the circumstances the parties respect another's individuality. However, at that time, many people were exposed to poverty due to Japanese colonial policies. Under these circumstances, prostitution, one way of solution out of poverty, was mixed with the desire lay behind unconsciousness and this resulted in destruction in the end. Characters of Boknea in Gamja (Potato) and Chunho's wife in the novel of Sonagi (A sudden shower) were created at that time. Modern women and men could not be free from sex ideology deeply rooted in traditional Confucianism and predominance of men. Therefore, in the process of moving forward to the true unity, some people fell in love with in the novels. Some examples are that Yeonsil who fell in love in the novel of >Kim Yeonsil Jeon< and Young Chae who decided to commit suicide because of purity complex in the novel of >Mujeong<. Even, there appeared a character like Soonok in the novel who sanctify sex. However, they found their identity in the end and their actions were proved as transitional phenomenon taking place between the gap of unity and want by showing their will of true unity. Also, there is a character in the novel who agrees the process of unity based on respect for the other sex. Youngshin and Donghyuk in the novel of >Sangroksu< are those examples. It can be said that the love realized by them shows the truth of unity.
ВЪВЕДЕНИЕ НА СЪСТАВИТЕЛЯ
(2008)
Buddhism and psychoanalysis have long been accused of privileging internal transformation over active social and political engagement. Yet, as representatives of non-theistic and secular paths toward the realization of human potential, both traditions embody an important aspect of the Romantic quest for progress, that is, the transcendence of internal and external division. Insight into the Buddhist notion of self as ontologically interdependent and non-dualistic optimally yields not only personal transformation but also an expanded circle of identification, with important implications for social responsibility. Erich Fromm, in interpreting the influential work of D. T. Suzuki, represents a historical and philosophical link between the psychoanalytic legacy of social responsibility and the Buddhist concept of Enlightenment.
This chapter reviews the work of Critical Theory (CT) to assess the orientation of business to spirituality. It has been mistakenly assumed that, given its Marxist heritage, CT is against spirituality. However, in the work of Horkheimer, Adorno, and Fromm of the Frankfurt School of CT, there are instances where they discuss their own religious and spiritual orientations. I would like to suggest some points of convergence between CT and spirituality. In particular, I want to extend the implications of the CT approaches to spirituality in business.
>Each society develops a categorization system, which fixes the shape of the consciousness, by means of society’s vital practice and its essential ways to feel, take in and to correspond itself with the world.< This system fixes the shapes of the consciousness and acts like a social filter. Formulation of the conception >social character< – for a reason to safe the society, it should shape its citizen’s wishes in a way that they should wish to do what is in their duty to do.
A Psychotherapy Model for Treating Refugee Children Caught in the Midst of Catastrophic Situations
(2008)
Self and Time
(2008)
This paper combines historical and biographical work on the Frankfurt School of critical theorists with a sociological approach to intellectual creativity outlined in Michael Farrell’s provocative book Collaborative Circles: Friendship Dynamics and Creative Work. Revisiting earlier research on the often unheralded role the psychoanalyst Erich Fromm played in the early years of the critical theory tradition, the paper reviews the theory of collaborative circles outlined by Farrell, applies this social science explanation of conflict and creativity to the Frankfurt School network of Horkheimer, Fromm, Adorno, Marcuse, Lowenthal etc. and suggests a new way of thinking about the history of this innovative and controversial group of social theorists and researchers. The paper concludes by suggesting revisions to the Farrell model of collaborative circles and compares and contrasts the strengths of the theory to the “scientific intellectual movements” approach outlined by Frickel and Gross.
Review Bruce Fink: Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique: A Lacanian Approach for Practioners
(2008)
A Neural Network Model for Transference and Repetition Compulsion Based on Pattern Completion
(2008)
The Relevance of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit to the Process of Contemporary Psychoanalysis
(2008)
Somatoform Dissociation: Phenomena, Measurement and Theoretical Issues (by Ellert R.S. Nijenhuis)
(2008)
The Treatment
(2008)
Looking for a therapist.
(2008)