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This dissertation investigates the relationship between the utopian idea of a normative totality and the genesis of modern totalitarianism in the exile novels Pardon wird nicht gegeben. Amazonas-trilogy, and November 1918 by Alfred Doblin (written between 1934 and 1937). – Chapter 1 analyses first the resurgence of narrative authority in the novel Pardon wird nicht gegeben as a function of Doblin's Marxist insight into economic determinism and as his literary contribution to the popular front of German emigres in the Paris of the 1930's. The novel describes the social rise and downfall of a proletarian whose sadomasochistic predisposition resembles the authoritarian character analysed by Erich FROMM in his psychoanalytic interpretation of Nationalsocialism. The protagonist's desire for social integration results in the destruction of his individuality through politically totalitarian groups. – Chapter 2 analyses the development of the concept of normative totality in Doblin's theory of the novel. – Chapter 3 shows how in Doblin's Amazonas-trilogy several historical attempts to realize a peaceful co-existence between European conquerors and their >Other< results in the brutal repression of the Native Indians. The desire of modern, rational, and technological man for a transcendental >home< is unmasked as the source also for the false totalitarian promises of salvation in our century. Doblin interprets Nationalsocialism as the repetition of earlier ecstasies of self-destruction, which in their turn were desperate responses to the loss of a holistic medieval order. – Chapter 4 follows the traces of Doblin's conversion to Catholicism in the narrative structure and content of November 1918. It elucidated the dialectics of totality totalitarianism by showing how Doblin's demand for a mystically motivated retreat from history results in the involuntary affirmation of those power structures whose inhuman face Doblins portrays in more than thousand pages. – The dissertation is framed by an introduction and a conclusion both of which deal with the problem of the relevance of his exile novels for our own time.
Nosferatu, doble edipo y posesión diabólico. Comentario: Gojman de Millán, >Vampirismo y poder<
(1983)
Tears of Joy
(1983)
Erich FROMMs Schrift >Psychoanalyse und Zen-Buddhismus< von 1971 wird in ihren wesentlichen Argumentationssträngen referiert und aus daseinsanalytischer Perspektive kommentiert. Beide Ansätze werden insofern als übereinstimmend betrachtet, als sie für die angestrebte volle Harmonie und das unmittelbare Erfassen der Realität das begriffliche Denken allein als unzureichend betrachten; es muss durch nicht-intellektuelle Einsicht ergänzt werden. Die bewusste Erfahrung des Nichts wird für notwendig gehalten, um ein Verständnis vom eigenen Sein zu entwickeln.
Drawing on the work of Erich FROMM and other thinkers, this essay concludes that schools can best offer moral education by treating students as people; teaching them philosophy and the receptive mode of thought, as in meditation; and discovering and presenting the self as a nucleus of communion and interrelatedness.
Erich Fromm
(1983)
Der tiefenpsychologische Zugang zur Analyse religiöser Phänomene wird erörtert. Zunächst wird betont, daß sich die Tiefenpsychologie schon frühzeitig mit Fragen zur Religion und mit dem Ursprung des Gottesbegriffes als zentralen existenziellen Anliegen auseinandersetzte. Die bekanntesten tiefenpsychologischen Religionsinterpretationen (Freud, Adler, Jung, FROMM) und der >Gottmensch-Komplex< (Jones) werden unter Einbezug moderner Narzissmustheorien beleuchtet.
Erich Fromm
(1983)