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Psychoanalysis can contribute quite a lot to the question of values and to a theory of ethics. While the first part of this presentation is focused on the impact psychoanalysis continues to exert on present day ethical theory, the second part discusses Erich Fromm’s particular approach to psychoanalysis. Fromm was the first to reformulate in his psychoanalytic approach the idea of an ethic of the virtues. With his theory of character (and of social character) he made values an integral part of psychoanalytic theory. Hence, what matters most morally from a psychoanalytic stance is the quality of character orientation. Despite the fact that – in Fromm’s own socio-psychoanalytic approach – man’s character is the product of adaptation to the environment, morality for him is dictated by economic and social requirements – whatever common sense may tell us to the contrary. For Fromm there is an intrinsic primary tendency to growth in all human beings. Thus, morally good is whatever furthers the growth of our own powers by which we relate to the outside world and to ourselves in a loving, >sane< and creative way. The last section reflects some implications of Fromm’s approach to understanding values as an integral part of psychoanalytic theory, and finally discusses whether the search for truth and human values is as obsolete as postmodern thinking claims.
Einführung in die Tagung,
(2002)
Um Erich Fromms Beitrag zur Psychoanalytischen Pädagogik zu erheben, wird zunächst aufgezeigt, dass sich eine am Sein orientierte Erziehung nur von den Wirkungen her definieren lässt, die ein konkretes pädagogisches oder didaktisches Tun zeitigt. Die aufgezeigten Wirkungen einer am Sein orientierten Erziehung stellen zugleich Leitwerte psychisch gelingenden Lebens und Zusammenlebens dar, während eine Orientierung am Haben zu einer Entfremdung des Menschen von seinen Eigenkräften und vom anderen Menschen führt.—Die die Entfremdung des Menschen fördernde Psychodynamik der Orientierung am Haben wird im Hauptteil zum einen am Beispiel autoritärer Strukturen verdeutlicht, zum anderen für Strukturen aufgewiesen, die vom Marketing bestimmt sind. Hierbei werden noch einmal zwei verschiedene Arten der Marketing-Orientierung unterschieden: die produktorientierte und die Wirklichkeit inszenierende. Da gerade letztere immer dominanter wird, werden abschließend hierzu schulpädagogische Hinweise für eine Erziehung zur Orientierung am Sein gegeben.
Marketing needs to recognise the changing priority of consumption. The belief that markets are secure because consumers will continue to be motivated to have an ever-greater array and quantity of goods and services is a shortsighted and erroneous assumption. Consumers are increasingly looking to the market to provide resources and technologies that will enable them to achieve rewarding and sustainable states of 'being'. Drawing on the humanist philosophy of Erich Fromm, this paper advances the case for a 'Marketing of Being', based on a detailed discussion of the changing nature of consumer identity and identification behaviour.
Wir leben in einer Welt, in der die Unterwerfung des Menschen unter Herrschaft und Macht, unter den Rhythmus der Maschine, unter die Zwänge einer Konsumgesellschaft alternativlos erscheint. Dieses Leben wird nicht als Unterwerfung empfunden, sondern als Sinn unseres Daseins. Ein patriarchalisches mechanistisches Weltbild konnte über Jahrhunderte ganzheitliches Sein entwerten. Die Natur wird in nie gekanntem Ausmaß unterworfen, manipuliert, als verwertbare und damit konsumierbare Ressource betrachtet. Handwerk als Kunst gibt es kaum noch. Die Glorifizierung der Maschine, Technik und Hochtechnologie als vermeintliche Gipfel der menschlichen Entwicklung haben einen bisher nicht gekannten Höhepunkt erreicht, einhergehend mit tiefer Entfremdung und einer weiteren Entwertung von Kreativität, Muße, Sinnlichkeit, von allem, was nicht in Geld umsetzbar ist.—Der Band mit Beiträgen diverser Foren (u. a. der Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Berlin) zum Werk von Erich Fromm, der sich als ein radikaler Kritiker der konsumorientierten Industriegesellschaft verstanden hatte, greift diese Problematik auf. Fromm plädierte nicht für ein Leben in Askese bei Wasser und Brot, sondern für eine Abkehr von Besitzorientierung im weitesten Sinne, um das Wiedererlangen von Beziehungsfähigkeit, Geborgenheit, Genussfähigkeit, Sensibilität für Kunst, Kultur, Natur. Der ihm gewidmete Band liefert zahlreiche Anregungen hierzu. (Elke Wolf).
Einleitung
(2002)
The author considers both the psychoanalytic field and the ways in which the characters of a psychoanalytic session can be understood. He then develops one of Bion's ideas, the dream in the waking state, by isolating the derivatives of such dreams or rather the alpha elements they consist of. The author implies a theory of technique which takes account of all the signals >the bi-personal field< gives the analyst about the functioning of the analytic couple by means of >narrative derivatives<. This enables continual changes to be made in interpretation
Our profession is being challenged theoretically and by practical realities. Many of its basic premises are being questioned and a hostile managed care bureaucracy has been curtailing treatment opportunities. These challenges force a latent issue into full view: Is psychoanalytic wisdom tied to its dogma and technical rituals or can much of its wisdom be integrated into a more inclusive interdisciplinary perspective? Psychoanalysis has a history of resisting change. It defined too early what was and what was not to be considered psychoanalysis. Dogmatization made idols out of theories and the rituals of techniques. Theories are valuable tools only and not scientific truth. While in-stitutes and official sanctions have lacked in open-mindedness, the unofficial practicing psychoanalyst has been far more creative in adapting psychoanaly-sis to the patient's needs and embracing the freedom to develop his or her idio-syncratic ways, wisdom, and skills. We need to increase our therapeutic reper-toire beyond those that carry the label of psychoanalysis. I present some con-siderations that derive from my experience as a psychoanalytically trained dy-namic psychotherapist.
Our profession is being challenged theoretically and by practical realities. Many of its basic premises are being questioned and a hostile managed care bureaucracy has been curtailing treatment opportunities. These challenges force a latent issue into full view: Is psychoanalytic wisdom tied to its dogma and technical rituals or can much of its wisdom be integrated into a more inclusive interdisciplinary perspective? Psychoanalysis has a history of resisting change. It defined too early what was and what was not to be considered psychoanalysis. Dogmatization made idols out of theories and the rituals of techniques. Theories are valuable tools only and not scientific truth. While institutes and official sanctions have lacked in open-mindedness, the unofficial practicing psychoanalyst has been far more creative in adapting psychoanalysis to the patient's needs and embracing the freedom to develop his or her idiosyncratic ways, wisdom, and skills. We need to increase our therapeutic repertoire beyond those that carry the label of psychoanalysis. I present some considerations that derive from my experience as a psychoanalytically trained dynamic psychotherapist.
>Switch Him On!<
(2002)
In this article, the author describes somber scenes that have been extracted from Brazilian reality. Some of the elements that compose these scenes have been analyzed as to their relation with contemporaneity and psychoanalytic topics of interest: perversion, helplessness, pain, life instinct, death instinct, humor and indifference.
This article is the result of a study on Psychoanalysis and Racial Matters which has been conducted by a group of black Brazilian psychoanalysts affiliated to the Círculo Psicanalítico de Minas Gerais – CPMG, Brazil. Even though Brazil is a multiracial and miscegenetic country, the lowest levels of the social pyramid have always been occupied by its black citizens who represent almost half of the Brazilian population. Therefore, the idea that people have about blacks is that they are ugly, dirty and weak: the image of failure. In this article we have considered the effects that are caused by this imaginary psychic register which has been historically produced on the psyche of the black Brazilian. Although Psychoanalysis has had significant influence on mental health in Brazil, it has made little or no contribution to the understanding of this matter. To further our comprehension of this enigma, we pose the question: what does a psychoanalyst hear when a black person speaks?
Carl Jung referred to religion as >the zone of world-destroying and world-creating fire,<--the zone inhabited by cruel, violent, and destructive forces and, conversely, healing, inspiring, and creative energies. In >The Healing Zone,< Dr. Paul Fleischman works from this apparent paradox, mapping out his groundbreaking investigation into the psychological phenomena of religion in lucid, accessible prose. / Dr. Fleischman, a clinical psychiatrist, has worked extensively with his patients towards an understanding of their religious backgrounds, affiliations, disaffiliations, beliefs, and doubts. Each chapter of >The Healing Zone< concentrates on a specific theme, which is vividly brought to life by fascinating, and often moving, case studies.... Fleischman weaves together the ideas of Erich FROMM, Martin Buber, Carl Jung, Mahatma Gandhi, Sigmund Freud, the Old and New Testaments, the Bhagavad Gita, the Koran, and Buddhist texts, to form his own unique vision. / >The Healing Zone,< the result of many years of private practice and teaching seminars at Yale University, will be of interest to anyone who has pondered the >Whys< of their own or another's religious behavior. It is designed not only as a study in psychotherapy, but as a tool to offer workable solutions for those who seek spiritual direction and psychological self-awareness. Dr. Fleischman's goal is to guide the psychic energy contained in religion away from world-destroying forms and into world-creating forms. – Index: Preface – Introduction – Witnessed significance – Lawful order – Affirming acceptance – Calling – Membership – Release – Worldview – Human love – Sacrifice – Meaningful death – Conclusion – Notes. (From the jacket)
Fragments of a Case of Psychosis: from Institutional Sheltering to Psychoanalytical Experience
(2002)
This article describes a psychoanalytical experience that took place in an institution for mental health, located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. There, an art workshop was created in an attempt to welcome and shelter psychotic patients. This work space later proportioned a >setting< for the practice of psychoanalysis with psychotic patients. In the clinical case, herein examined, the author dedicates special attention to the relation that exists between certain psychotic aspects and the process described by Jacques Lacan as: the >foreclosure of the name of the father<.
Einleitung
(2002)
Was ist es, was Leserinnen und Leser an Fromms Werk beeindruckt, und wie geschieht das? Darauf antwortet dieser Beitrag. Er stellt dar, wie Fromm, der vor allem als Analytischer Sozialpsychologe und humanistischer Ethiker wirkte, zugleich Lehrer ist. Ebenso wird gezeigt, welche Traditionen in Fromms Art zu lehren lebendig sind, die die Eigenkräfte eines Menschen fördern. Zeitlebens blieb Fromm dem Wirken der alttestamentlichen Propheten so verbunden, dass ihre Ethik und Methode die didaktische Vorgehensweise seines Werkes prägt. Ähnlich wie die Propheten vor dem Untergang der Menschheit warnten, bringt Fromm seine gesellschaftskritischen Analysen Menschen nahe und ermuntert sie, erneut Subjekte humaner Geschichte zu sein. Von S. Freud wird Fromm angeregt, eine unfruchtbare Didaktik nicht gelebter Forderungen zu unterlassen, weil Fromm darauf abzielt, von den meist unbewussten Strebungen her Menschen feinfühlig zu verstehen, wie sie als Personen und in gesellschaftlichen Strukturen faktisch leben. Konsequent verwandelt Fromm deshalb die Triebtheorie in eine beziehungstheoretische Sichtweise menschli-cher Lebenspraxis um, dessen zentraler Begriff Gesellschafts-Charakter ist. Für eine Didaktik bedeutet er, dass Mitmenschsein als lebenslanger und aktiver Ge-burtsakt, der humanere Änderungen in Personen und gesellschaftlichen Struktu-ren hervorbringt, angeregt wird. Als fruchtbar für eine Didaktik wird sodann eine Verbindung mit der Themen-zentrierten Interaktion im Sinne Ruth C. Cohns an-gedeutet. Das, was Fromms jüdische Tradition des Mitmenschseins glaubte und Analytische Sozialpsychologie erkennbar macht, nahm Fromm durch seinen Bezug zur Ethik L Kants sowohl ins eigene Denken als universalisierungsfähig, mithin zum kritischen Gebrauch geklärt, als auch deshalb in sein Fühlen hinein verfeinert auf. So wie Fromm dachte und fühlte, lehrte er durch sein Werk. Fromms Eigenart zu schreiben kann ein Wachsen der Persönlichkeit, in dem in-dividuelle Selbstverwirklichung und universale Bezogenheit eins sind, auslösen und orientieren. Eine so kritische und normative Didaktik postuliert nicht, son-dern wird gelebt, weil die eigene Person als Werkzeug ihrer selbst mit dem er-forderlichen Grad an Reflexion sich bildet – und wie das geschieht, in anderen vergleichbar hervorrufen kann. Dabei können Menschen auf die von ihnen ver-ursachten Gründe des Endes der Geschichte aufmerksam werden. Es ist Friedrich Schiller, der zu seiner Zeit auf Geschichte als Menschwerdung des Menschen hinwies. Das wird besonders dort deutlich, wo Schiller sich eines Topos der Aufklärung, den.Sündenfall als Geschehen der Menschwerdung zu deuten, bediente, um im Ungehorsam die Chance des Menschen zur Freiheit und zur Selbsterzeugung des Menschen als Beginn von Geschichte zu verste-hen. Fromm nutzte Schillers Auffassung von Geschichte und die in Schillers Me-thode enthaltene Dialektik in therapeutisch-kathartischer Weise, um Menschen der Gegenwart auf das Allerschrecklichste aufmerksam zu machen, das sie nämlich heute entgegen ihrer entscheidendsten Möglichkeit wie einst, Geschich-te zu schaffen, jedwedes Dasein durch ihren blinden Gehorsam jetzt zerstören und das Ende der Menschheitsgeschichte heraufbeschören. Wenn Menschen so das gesellschaftliche Unbewusste ihrer gegenwärtigen Lebenspraxis erken-nen, können sie das Allerschrecklichste durch lebensdienlichen Ungehorsam abwenden und abermals Geschichte und menschliches Leben aus eigener Ein-sicht und mit eigenen Kräften schaffen.
According to Bion, group mentality is inspired by three basic assumptions (dependence, fightflight, pairing) dominating in turn. No conjunctions of basic assumptions seem to be possible. The author, however, formulates the hypothesis that such conjunctions may take place in weakly structured enlarged groups, midway between small groups and the institutional larger groups described by Freud and Bion as Church, Army and Aristocracy. A case study is here presented, wherein the group session appears to be dominated by a baFF+baP conjunction (i.e. a combination of fightflight and pairing emerging simultaneously). The in-depth analysis highlights the shared unconscious fantasy corresponding to this conjunction, i.e. the Weapon-Baby fantasy. Having split the parental couple into a good one and a bad one, the group expects the good couple to generate a Divine Baby capable of leading the war against the bad couple. The >good< pairing thus evoked, however, is nothing but a combined object, only capable of faecal offspring: a Stool Baby, which can only be used to be thrown against the Enemy. Similar fantasies can be found at the individual level in manicpersonality pseudo-creativity. At the social level, the same baFF+baP conjunction seems to apply as well to political movements such as Hitlerism.
This paper presents vignettes of a case from the city of Rio de Janeiro in which temporality appears as a fundamental issue. Severe difficulties in validating the past and integrating past, present and future reveal pertinent questions on time and the ideal function in the contemporary world. The author underlines the relevance of such questioning for the practice of psychoanalysis today.
>Krieg der Zivilisationen< oder rechtsintellektuelle Deutungsmacht im Dienste westlicher Hegemonie
(2002)
The analyst and the patient must feel enough hope to sustain their active effort. A significant aspect of the analyst's role is inspiring hope. This seems to require that the analyst take a life-affirming position that violates traditional notions of analytic neutrality. Yet, in facilitating the patient's full self-expression, we do not want to lose the benefits of neutrality. Fromm's work can inspire us to try to integrate an attitude of spirited hope with interpretations whose content neutrally encourages the patient to reveal his whole self.
Gerard Chrzanowski 1913-2000
(2002)
The psychoanalyst's ethics at issue – referred to a paradigm of complexity in the postmodern age – is to affirm as a fundamental value the recognition of determinism of unconscious desire, which implies a renunciation to any exercise of power, even the power of influence that can guide and support. Intending through interpretation of the partial truth of desire to be accomplished as a process that subverts the subject's relation with its own history, psychoanalysis, as it undoes the imaginary fixations of the subject, cannot predict the >politics< of the unconscious desire. Nor can it confront the possibilities of decision and choice of a relative and finite freedom. Using the interpretative elaboration of an intersubjective field of values, the psychoanalytic practice reveals the limits of a knowledge restricted by the context where the interpretation takes place. It differentiates between deciphering and decoding by emphasizing the attribute of the uncognoscibility of the unconscious Thus it reveals the cryptogram, a cipher designed as an ambiguous puzzle that is not exhausted by interpretation as a symbolic act, and it refers to the unrepresentable and the inaccessibility of the real.
This article aims to reflect on the possible contributions of psychoanalysis in relation to severely disturbed patients by means of the presentation of a clinical case. Beginning with the family history, the evolutionary process of the symptoms and identification movements of the patient are analysed. The observation of the transference dynamics is emphasised, showing how the desire of the analyst and his privileged listening will allow the patient some level of possible subjective structure.
While the concepts of >wish< and >wish fulfillment< have indeed remained central since the start of classical psychoanalysis, they are only weakly anchored both in theory and practice. It has become common today for psychoanalysts to use the term >to wish< in the sense of >to want< or >to intend.< As a first step, it will be emphasized that >wish< should not be constructed along the lines of >intention.< An examination of the relationship of >wish< to >wish fulfillment< is then followed by an evaluation of its practical significance for psychoanalysis and for our understanding of mental life in a general sense. Turning to an example dream sequence, we will arrive at the psychoanalytic core of the issue: the assumption of hidden, non-obvious, non-recognizable wish fulfillment scenarios. At this point in the discussion, a method of access will be sketched out – the dramaturgical approach – that, although it makes use of the idea of free association, does so in a manner that diverges from Freud's original recommendation.
Il coraggio di essere. L’esperienza di Erich Fromm, Locarno (Armando Dadò Editore) 2003, 131 p.
(2002)
Wege aus der Nekrophilie
(2002)
Das Unbehagen im Konsumismus
(2002)
On the subject of countertransference we attempt to establish a line of continuity between Freud's own expression >blind spot< and Fromm's idea of >counterattitude<. It is pointed out that both expressed the idea of the analyst's unconscious as an >instrument< for understanding the patient's unconscious. It follows that the decision to openly use or not to use countertransference in analysis also depends on the concept we have of it and on its extent. The psy-choanalyst's real and illusory values and his convictions with regard to human nature influence the countertransference and the analytic relationship. Analytic listening itself may be distorted by it. We must be highly aware of this to avoid enclosing what the patient says in a theoretic scheme. What is needed, there-fore, is an open theoretic scheme, more oriented towards understanding than in-terpretation. Aspects of analytic communication and of the relationship between language, thought and insight are examined. A humanistic point of view is as-sumed in distinguishing between the transferral and the real plane, and the rea-sons behind the legitimacy of such a distinction are expounded.
On the subject of countertransference we attempt to establish a line of continuity between Freud's own expression >blind spot< and Fromm's idea of >counterattitude<. It is pointed out that both expressed the idea of the analyst's unconscious as an >instrument< for understanding the patient's unconscious. It follows that the decision to openly use or not to use countertransference in analysis also depends on the concept we have of it and on its extent. The psy-choanalyst's real and illusory values and his convictions with regard to human nature influence the countertransference and the analytic relationship. Analytic listening itself may be distorted by it. We must be highly aware of this to avoid enclosing what the patient says in a theoretic scheme. What is needed, there-fore, is an open theoretic scheme, more oriented towards understanding than in-terpretation. Aspects of analytic communication and of the relationship between language, thought and insight are examined. A humanistic point of view is as-sumed in distinguishing between the transferral and the real plane, and the rea-sons behind the legitimacy of such a distinction are expounded.
What kind of contributions can psychoanalysis make toward issues that concern violence and femininity, specifically the violence that women establish in the relations with the significant other and themselves? In this paper, the authors attempt to answer this question by dealing with concepts such as instinct, masochism and enjoyment. Additionally, they recognize the act of psychoanalytic listening as a genuine and valid manner of getting the unconscious to speak. This act of listening can be practiced either in the traditional psychoanalytic setting of private offices or in psychoanalysis applied to public institutions, for the principal tool is language as it permeates human relationships and proportions the structure of the unconscious mind.
Gerard Chrzanowski was a prominent representative of psychoanalysis. However, he was not a friend of strict delimitations between the different psychoanalytic schools and the struggles between them. Having grown up in Poland, having lived a few years in Switzerland and the rest of his life in USA he had a multi-cultural background. He was with that well prepared to exert an integrative role between the different psychoanalytic movements and especially in the International Federation of Psychoanalysis, of which he was one of the founders and honourable members.
Is There Still Time?
(2002)
Eine Frage des Glaubens
(2002)
Ist Lieben eine Kunst?
(2002)