Discusses clinical approaches to dreams, beginning with Freud's theory of the dream-wish deriving from infantile sexual conflicts and the evolutionary character of Jung's dream conception--both of which are oriented to the individual. Also explored are the more socio-cultural approaches of Adler, FROMM, Sullivan, Horney, and Bonime. The value of both emphases is illustrated through the analysis of a dream.
Pellegrinaggi spirituali
(1988)
The single most valuable contribution of the Frankfurt School is >critical theory<. Typical and peculiar to this group was that the synthesis of the contributions of so many great minds (Adorno, Horkheimer, Habermas, Mitscherlich, Lukács, Korsch, Reich, FROMM, Marcuse, and even Freud) was not to be found in elaborations of the individual masters in their life time, but was found in the radical subjectivity of the generation that followed them. The more problematic aspects of the Frankfurt heritage are characterized by the contemporary work of Negt in his treatment of the relationship between >operational subjectivity< and social science. The thesis of social subjectivity in all its complex articulation continues to elude integration with method and analysis.
L'equilibrio della speranza
(1978)
Interventi sul caso Fausto
(1992)
Fromm sociologo
(1965)
Psicoterapia sistemica, epistemologia e complessità: riflessioni su un processo evolutivo in corso
(1989)
Argues that religious principles--especially Puritan theology--have never ceased to be an undercurrent in American psychology and psychiatry. The Puritan doctrine of human nature, sin, and the Covenant of Grace made the individual responsible for madness as a consequence of sin and unbridled passions; hence, the >moral management< treatment of the insane in Colonial America. Humanistic psychologists (e.g., H. S. Sullivan, K. Horney, E. FROMM, C. Rogers) attributed mental disease to lack of, or only partial, integration into one's sociocultural environment: this goal could be achieved through therapy. Psychology and psychiatry became substitutes for religion, but the Puritan ability to confront the darkest aspects of the human psyche was lost.