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Motivating the Civil Service
(1978)
The Androgynous Person
(1978)
Hat die Liebe in unserer Gesellschaft noch eine Chance? Reflexionen in Anschluß an Erich Fromm
(1978)
Examines the views of E. FROMM and K. Horney on alienation to identify the mental mechanisms involved in the generation of the phenomenon. FROMM attributes alienation solely to social conditions and regards it as an almost universal phenomenon of modern society. Horney views alienation as a manifestation of neurosis that originates in the basic anxiety of children who do not receive genuine warmth and affection from their parents. It is suggested that FROMM's theory of alienation fails to account for persons who fail to become alienated and that Horney's fails to take the subjective conditioning of the child's perception of social reality into account. A Freudian explanation of the development of alienation begins with the observation that the young child mostly lives in a world of wishes disconnected from reality. Some children gradually learn, from repeated experiences of frustration, to tolerate the frustration of their wishes, whereas others, due to congential factors, fail to learn frustration tolerance. These latter children develop feelings of estrangement or isolation from a world that they perceive as hostile or indifferent to them and/or a self that they perceive as inadequate.
The successes of socialism are more notable when compared to the profound crisis of international capitalism and its spiritual degradation. The West is currently struggling with problems of implementing high technology, often capable of effecting substantial economic and social transformations. Special attention is given to the concept of technocracy. Many bourgeois social scientists, eg, Leslie White, have pointed toward the absolute role of science and technology in determining the social system. Both optimistic and pessimistic appraisals are offered by contemporary bourgeois scholars, including Ellul, Douglas, FROMM, Mamford, Toffler, Drucker, Wiener, and Bell.
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Religion and Society
(1978)