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Changes in Social Structure. Symposium >On The Complexities of Teaching and Learning Psychotherapy<
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The attempt at establishing the interrelationship between character, society and the politics of liberation is what unites the efforts of these 3 Freudian theorists. Wilhelm Reich's focus was on character. His search for a >prophylaxis of neurosis< through character analysis led him into sociology and the problem of social change through radical political activity. Erich FROMM addressed the >problem of man< by attempting to marry a humanistic, marxian, critical social science to a psychoanalytic theory which was stripped of its mystical and conservative social implications. Herbert Marcuse's project was to lay the philosophical foundation for a unification of social theory and revolutionary praxis. In the face of 20th century totalitarianism, each sought an incentive to act and a reason to hope, in Freud's concept of the >dynamic unconscious<. It was only a concept of fundamental human psychological, social or biological >needs< (needs which, if unmet, would necessarily motivate resistance to oppression and domination) that could counteract the pessimistic previews of the behavior shapers. aa
Presents a criticism of Freud's ahistorical, asocial, mechanistic, and materialistic view of mankind. In place of Freud's absolutistic and pessimistic confirmation of the destructive status quo by the death instinct, man's dynamic character is reinterpreted relativistically into theories of human progress based largely on Freud's theorizing.